Title: Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico Author: Muir, John, editor Place: San Francisco Publisher: J. Dewing Company Date: 1888 Description: 4 volumes. [v]-xii, [2], 120; 121-240; [241]-352; [353]-478 pp. Profusely illustrated with etchings, engravings & photogravures, including both plates & text illustrations. 15¾x11¼, ¾ morocco & cloth, rebacked with cloth, recent paper spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Superb array of etchings, engravings and photogravures from works by important Western artists, including Thomas Moran Julian Rix, Frederic Remington Thomas Hill and many others. Besides editing the work, Muir provided seven articles. Originally issued in 10 parts, in several different limitations and states. Kimes notes later two-volume and three-volume issues, but not a four-volume issue. There is only the title-page for the first volume present in this set, and at the beginning of the third volume (labeled Part III on the spine label) is an illustration on silk, not in the regular bound editions. There are old binder's tickets of Wm. E. Stockett & Co., N.Y., on the front pastedown of each volume. Cowan p.486; (Kimes 175). Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to corners, else near fine. Item number: 168138
Title: Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico Author: Muir, John, editor Place: San Francisco Publisher: J. Dewing Company Date: 1888 Description: 4 volumes. [v]-xii, [2], 120; 121-240; [241]-352; [353]-478 pp. Profusely illustrated with etchings, engravings & photogravures, including both plates & text illustrations. 15¾x11¼, ¾ morocco & cloth, rebacked with cloth, recent paper spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Superb array of etchings, engravings and photogravures from works by important Western artists, including Thomas Moran Julian Rix, Frederic Remington Thomas Hill and many others. Besides editing the work, Muir provided seven articles. Originally issued in 10 parts, in several different limitations and states. Kimes notes later two-volume and three-volume issues, but not a four-volume issue. There is only the title-page for the first volume present in this set, and at the beginning of the third volume (labeled Part III on the spine label) is an illustration on silk, not in the regular bound editions. There are old binder's tickets of Wm. E. Stockett & Co., N.Y., on the front pastedown of each volume. Cowan p.486; (Kimes 175). Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to corners, else near fine. Item number: 168138
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