[Rarebooks] FS: "The United States Illustrated" in 2 vols. w/79 engraved plates. New York: 1855

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(AMERICANA) Dana, Charles A. (ed.). THE UNITED STATES ILLUSTRATED; in Views of City and Country. With Descriptive and Historical Articles. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer. (1855). Lg. 4to. 2 vols. 180;154pp. Each volume, "West" and "East", with an added engraved title page with a large vignette. Illustrated with 79 fine steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Orig. elaborately gilt decorated textured blue cloth. A.e.g. A fine, bright set, albeit with some minor water stains at extremities of spines, but still a very nice set.    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Howes D48 (calling for only 77 plates). Flake 2657 (Vol. 1 contains a section on Nauvoo).

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