America Illustrated

[New York]: The New York Printing & Publishing Company, 1879. Cloth. Near fine. 4to; 121pp; green pebbled cloth over beveled board, stamped black panels surrounding gilt-stamped lettering on front, blind-stamped paneling on rear; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; ownership in neat ink on ffep; woddcut illustrations most likely reproduced for this publication by a photolithographic process; near fine. OCLC locates only one physical copy at the Maharishi International University in Iowa. A wonderful tour of the U.S.A.'s natural wonders across the continent. The chapters cover the Valley of Yellowstone and the Hot Springs and Geysers; the Natural Bridge in Virginia; Trentan High Falls, the Hudson River at West Point, Lake George, and Sabbath Day Point, Niagara Falls, the East River, Saratoga Springs and Lake, the Erie Canal, and the Adirondack Mountains in New York state; Squam Lake in New Hampshire and the White Mountains; Mammoth Cave in Kentucky; Minot's Ledge in Massachusetts; the Great Horseshoe Curve on the Pennsylvania R.R.; a grip down the Mississippi River; Yosemite Valley; Fairmount Park in Philadelphia and the region of the Juniata in Pennsylvania; the Colorado River; the Susquehanna River; and the Great Lakes and their Cities. Americans unfamiliar with travel would have been captivated by the illustrations and text.