SCENERY OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS: WITH SIXTEEN PLATES, FROM THE DRAWINGS OF ISAAC SPRAGUE.
Oakes, William:
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1848. [4],4pp. followed by sixteen lithographic plates interleaved with corresponding leaves containing explanatory remarks. Folio. Contemporary brown cloth, gilt-stamped cover. Binding slightly soiled. Old institutional bookplate on front pastedown, blindstamp on titlepage, withdrawal stamp on verso. Closed tear in top of titlepage, not affecting text. Light dampstaining and one instance of leaf imprint in margins of later plates in the volume, old tear repaired in margin of last plate (not affecting image). A good copy. A series of classic landscape views in New Hampshire and Maine, viz: 1) "The White Mountains"; 2) "Mount Crawford"; 3) "The Notch of the White Mountains"; 4) "The Lower Cascade of the Notch"; 5) "The Gate of the Notch"; 6) "The Falls of the Amonoosuck"; 7) "The Granite Cliffs of the Falls" (two views on one plate); 8) "The Franconia Notch"; 9) "Profile Mountain at Franconia"; 10) "The Profile Rock"; 11) "The Basin, in Lincoln, N.H."; 12) "The Flume, in Lincoln, N.H."; 13) "Nancy's Bridge"; 14) "Mt. Crawford, from the Notch" (two views on one plate); 15) "Mount Washington" (two views on one plate); and 16) "Mt. Washington, over Tuckerman's Ravine." HOWES O1, "b."
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