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PICTURESQUE AMERICA; OR, THE LAND WE LIVE IN

Written by William Cullen Bryant
Published by D. Appleton & Company in 1872

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PICTURESQUE AMERICA; OR, THE LAND WE LIVE IN
Written by William Cullen Bryant.
Stock no. 816352
1872. Hardback. Large format. Fair condition.

Two volumes. Large format. Full brown leather binding, raised bands and gilt gilt decorations to spine. Gilt titles and decorations to front cover. All edges gilt. Numerous b/w steel engravings. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canyons, Valleys, Cities and Other Picturesque Features of our Country. 12.5 x 10 inches. Book: all plates present. Damage to first two pages of Volume I, with slight loss; damage horizontally to front board (small dip to centre as if tightly bound by a rubber band at some point). Dampstaining to both volumes also affecting plates. Hinge of front board of Volume II slightly cracked; mark to frontis and title page. Edges a little worn. Name in ink to prelims of both volumes and page edge browning. Overall, not too bad for the age, size and weight of books.

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Cover of PICTURESQUE AMERICA; OR, THE LAND WE LIVE IN by William Cullen Bryant

Contents

  • VOLUME I:
  • On the Coast of Maine
  • St. John's and Ocklawaha Rivers, Florida
  • Up and Down the Columbia
  • Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee
  • Richmond, Scenic and Historic
  • Natural Bridge, Virginia
  • Delaware Water-Gap
  • Mauch Chunk
  • On the Savannah
  • The French Broad
  • The White Mountains
  • Neversink Highlands
  • St. Augustine, Florida
  • Charleston and its Suburbs
  • Weyer's Cave, Virginia
  • Scenes on the Brandywine
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Watkins Glen
  • Scenes in Eastern Lond Island
  • The Lower Mississippi
  • Mackinac
  • Our Great National Park
  • Harpers Ferry
  • Scenes in Virginia
  • Newport
  • West Virginia
  • Lake Superior
  • Northern California
  • Nagara
  • Trenton Falls
  • The Yosemite Falls
  • Providence and Vicinity
  • South Shore of Lake Erie
  • On the Coast of California
  • VOLUME II:
  • Highlands and Palisades of the Hudson
  • Philadelphia and its Suburbs
  • Northern New Jersey
  • Valley of the Connecticut
  • Baltimore and Environs
  • The Catskills
  • The Juniata
  • On the Ohio
  • The Plains and the Sierras
  • The Susquehanna
  • Boston
  • Lake George and Lake Champlain
  • Mount Mansfield
  • Valley of the Housatonic
  • The Upper Mississippi
  • Valley of the Genesee
  • St. Lawrence and the Saguenay
  • Eastern Shore
  • The Adirondack Region
  • The Connecticut Shore of the Sound
  • Lake Memphremagog
  • The Mohawk, Albany, and Troy
  • The Upper Delaware
  • Water-Falls at Cauga Lake
  • The Rocky Mountains
  • The Canons of the Colorado
  • Chicago and Milwaukee
  • A Glance at the Northwest
  • The Mammoth Cave
  • New York and Brooklyn
  • Washington