Picturesque Views of American Scenery Joshua Shaw & John Hill 1820 SHAW, Joshua (1776-1860) and HILL, John (1770-1850). Picturesque Views of American Scenery. Philadelphia: Matthew Carey & Son, 1820[-1821]. Three parts, broadsheet folio (564 x 385mm). 20 aquatint engraved plates, including the title-page; each with facing leaf of letterpress text (a little toning, text with pale minor foxing, tissue guards foxed, a little pale offsetting from text to pl. 4, marginal spot to pl. 13, a pale corner dampstain in part 2 which affects one text leaf, text and plate corners a trifle worn). Original blue printed wrappers, with title and part nos. on front covers and publisher's advertisements on back and inside covers, prospectus for the present work on inside front wrapper of part 2 (backstrips chipped off and some small chips to edges, part 2 with large blank area torn from front wrapper, large repaired tear to back wrapper, and sewing nearly perished); modern chemises with printed labels for each part, housed in a half morocco solander box. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 19 June 2008, lot 30.
Picturesque Views of American Scenery Joshua Shaw & John Hill 1820 SHAW, Joshua (1776-1860) and HILL, John (1770-1850). Picturesque Views of American Scenery. Philadelphia: Matthew Carey & Son, 1820[-1821]. Three parts, broadsheet folio (564 x 385mm). 20 aquatint engraved plates, including the title-page; each with facing leaf of letterpress text (a little toning, text with pale minor foxing, tissue guards foxed, a little pale offsetting from text to pl. 4, marginal spot to pl. 13, a pale corner dampstain in part 2 which affects one text leaf, text and plate corners a trifle worn). Original blue printed wrappers, with title and part nos. on front covers and publisher's advertisements on back and inside covers, prospectus for the present work on inside front wrapper of part 2 (backstrips chipped off and some small chips to edges, part 2 with large blank area torn from front wrapper, large repaired tear to back wrapper, and sewing nearly perished); modern chemises with printed labels for each part, housed in a half morocco solander box. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 19 June 2008, lot 30.
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