Vol. ONE of Picturesque California, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope; California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc. -- Imperial Japan edition, limited to 100 copies, some plates SIGNED by artists
Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, Ca. 1888. Hardcover. No date, ca. 1888. First volume only of the 10 volume set limited to 100 copies, this one no. 40 printed for Mr. Mark P. Robinson. Large folio (19.5 inches tall; 49.5 cm) in rich full red leather gilt, with handsome patterned silk endpapers, illustrated with in-text pictures and gravures on india paper; with mounted and matted plates by some of the great Western artists of the day--each volume contains 12 such prints, with the frontispiece of each an original etching, the rest photogravures; this volume includes Moran's original etching 'Half Dome -- View from Moran Point,' 'Mount Emerson and the High Sierras' - blue tinted photogravure signed by Keith in pen below the image, Keith's 'Mount Humphrey' (also signed), Julian Rix, 'Deer Pass' (unsigned), Thomas Hill, 'The Indian Canyon' (signed in pencil), George Spiel's 'Fall in North Wall of Bloody Canon' (signed in pencil), Remington's 'Mule Train Crossing the Sierras' (signed in pencil) and other unsigned but mounted and matted photogravures. Book is good with some rubbing to binding, lower spine darkened and discolored, contents Fine, hgoused in somewhat worn slipcase. For this large and heavy volume, postage will be quoted at point of sale or by inquiry. Good. Item #H6931
Price: $1,500.00