[Rarebooks] FS: PICTURESQUE LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, 1887, with 65 Photogravures

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recent catalog: 
http://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/pdfs/Spring18.pdf

[CALIFORNIA] (FRIEND, Herve). PICTURESQUE LOS ANGELES COUNTY, 
CALIFORNIA. ILLUSTRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE. Chicago: American Photogravure 
Co., 1887. First Edition. Folio (9-3/4" x 12") in broken publisher's 
gilt-decorated leather-backed cloth; 16 pages of text and 65 full-page 
photogravure plates with tissue guards. From the unidentified author's 
preface: "To fully illustrate the many beautiful spots to be found in 
Los Angeles County ... we have taken the choicest (views) from varied 
subjects ... to familiarize the tourist and resident with localities as 
will excite and interest in them." Photographer Herve Friend was one of 
the most skilled landscape photographers working in the United States at 
the time. Images include the San Gabriel Canyon and the San Gabriel 
Mountains, Santa Monica, Arroyo Seco, Long Beach, and Catalina Harbor. 
Spine perished, front cover and endpaper detached; contents Fine.
Cowan (III) page 397. (#018628)        $1,500.00

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