Picturesque America, The Land We Live In: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Cañons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country. 2 Volumes

NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1872. Hardcover. VG internally, extremities of leather show scuffing at beveled edges and hinge lines, still a firm and solid set, several smudges to page edges nothing terrible. 3/4 leather with gilt embossed Publisher's cloth over thick board covers. All Edges Gilt. Marbled endpapers. Volume 1 (1872): vi, 568 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates Volume 2 (1874): viii, 576 pages, [25] leaves of plates) 47 steel engravings plus 2 engraved itle pages. Fascinating historical insight on America's attractions is presented in this rare six-volume set, interspersed with exquisite, crisp, clean steel engravings. Interior is sublime for its age--a captivating set all around. Contents as follows for both volumes: Volume I: On the coast of Maine / O.B. Bunce -- St. John's and Ocklawaha Rivers, Florida / T.B. Thorpe -- Up and down the Columbia / L.J.G. Runkle -- Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee / O.B. Bunce -- Richmond, scenic and historic / J.R. Thompson -- Natural Bridge, Virginia / John Esten Cooke -- Delaware Water-Gap / J.E. Ringwalt -- Mauch Chunk / O.B. Bunce -- On the Savannah / W.V. Thompson -- The French Broad / F.G. de Fontaine -- The White Mountains / Susan N. Carver -- Neversink Highlands / O.B. Bunce -- St. Augustine, Florida / Robert Carter -- Charleston and its suburbs / O.B. Bunce -- Weyer's Cave, Virginia / Sallie A. Brock -- Scenes on the Brandywine / O.B. Bunce -- Cumberland Gap / F.G. de Fontaine -- Watkins Glen / O.B. Bunce -- Scenes in eastern Long Island / O.B. Bunce -- The Lower Mississippi / T.B. Thorpe -- Mackinac / Constance F. Woolson -- Our great national park / O.B. Bunce -- Harper's Ferry / J.C. Cappenter -- Scenes in Virginia / G.W. Bagby -- Newport / T.M. Clarke -- West Virginia / D.H. Strother -- Lake Superior / Constance F. Woolson -- Northern California / R.E. Garczynski -- Niagara / R.E. Garczynski -- Trenton Falls / R.E. Garczynski -- The Yosemite Falls / James D. Smillie -- Providence and vicinity / T.M. Clarke -- South shore of Lake Erie / Constance F. Woolson -- On the coast of California / R.E. Garczynski.
Volume II: Highlands and Palisades of the Hudson / E.L. Burlingame -- Philadelphia and its suburbs / C.D. Gardette -- Northern New Jersey / W.F. Williams -- Valley of the Connecticut / W.C. Richards -- Baltimore and environs / J.C. Carpenter -- The Catskills / Henry A. Brown -- The Juniata / R.E. Garczynski -- On the Ohio / Constance F. Woolson -- The plains and the sierras / E.L. Burlingame -- The Susquehanna / R.E. Garczynski -- Boston / G.M. Towle -- Lake George and Lake Champlain / O.B. Bunce -- Mount Mansfield / Rossiter Johnson -- Valley of the Housatonic / W.C. Richards -- The Upper Mississippi / R.E. Garczynski -- Valley of the Genesee / W.S. Ward -- St. Lawrence and the Saguenay / W.H. Rideing -- Eastern Shore / G.M. Towle -- The Adirondack region / Robert Carter -- The Connecticut shore of the sound / W.C. Richards -- Lake Memphremagog / W.H. Rideing -- The Mohawk, Albany, and Troy / R.E. Garczynski -- The Upper Delaware / W.H. Rideing -- Water-falls at Cayuga Lake / W.H. Rideing -- The Rocky Mountains / W.H. Rideing -- The Cañons of the Colorado / J.E. Colburn -- Chicago and Milwaukee / O.B. Bunce -- A glance at the northwest / W.H. Rideing -- The Mammoth Cave / W.H. Rideing -- New York and Brooklyn / O.B. Bunce -- Washington / G.M. Towle.Engravings in volume 1 are as follows:
1. Niagara
2. Cascade in Virginia
3. Mount Desert Coast of Maine
4. On the Coast of Florida
5. Mount Hood from Columbia River
6. Richmond from the James
7. Delaware Water Gap
8. Smokey Mountains Eastern Tennessee
9. Mount Washington Road
10. Highlands of the Neversink
11. Cumberland Gap
12. City of New Orleans
13. Upper Falls of the Yellowstone
14. Harper's Ferry by Moonlight
15. The Chickahominy
16. Baptism Bay Lake Superior
17. Mount Shasta
18. Mirror Lake Yosemite Valley
19. City of Providence
20. Indian Rock Narragansett
21. City of Buffalo
22. City of Cleveland
23. City of Detroit
24. The Golden Gate.