BARTLETT, William, and WILLIS, Nathaniel Parker.

American Scenery

Item #84281

BARTLETT, William, and WILLIS, Nathaniel Parker. American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature from Drawings by W.H. Bartlett... London: George Virtue, 1840. 2 vols. 140pp., plus 66 plates (including frontispiece portrait), engraved title, and map; 106pp. plus 52 plates and engraved title. Quarto. Full gilt decorated red morocco, a.e.g. Edges a bit darkened, foxing and toning, else very good. Howes B-209. Abbey 651. Clark III:256. Sabin 3784. Bartlett's most famous work. He visited Canada and the United States on four separate occasions, and the illustrations show many of the principal cities of North America as well as the most famous scenic vistas of the day. The majority of the views are in New York and New England, but Bartlett went as far north as the White Mountains and as far south as Virginia. He found Niagara and the Hudson Valley most suitable for landscape. There are city views of Washington, Saratoga, Boston, New Haven, Baltimore, Rochester, Philadelphia and New York, among others.

Price: $2,000.00