Dec 13, 2018 - Sale 2496

Sale 2496 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS.) Bufford, J.H. [Adirondack Views]. 10 lithographed views and 5 engraved maps (several folding). 4to, 12x10 inches, original plain yellow wrappers, well preserved; foxing and dampstaining. [New York, 1838]

Additional Details

Scarce portfolio of plates by Bufford's lithography firm after sketches by Ebenezer Emmons and Charles Cromwell Ingham prepared while conducting geological surveys of New York State in 1837. Emmons is credited with attaching the name Adirondack to the region.