Picturesque California and the region west of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico / edited by John Muir ; containing over six hundred etchings, photogravures, wood engravings, etc., by eminent American artists.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muir, John, 1838-1914.

Contributor:

Books in Parts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific States--Description and travel.

Pacific States.

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

West (U.S.).

California--Description and travel.

California.

Genre:

Advertisements -- California -- San Francisco -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor)

Physical Description:

30 parts : illustrations ; 42 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco ; New York : J. Dewing Co., 1888.

Notes:

Vol. 2 has title: ... Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope; California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc. ...

"The entire work will contain over six hundred art illustrations, including one hundred and twenty or more full page photo-gravures, etchings and photo-etchings. Each part will contain four or more full page plates and sixteen pages of illustrated text ... To be published in thirty parts ..."--Prospectus.

Plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

Parts issued in illustrated paper wrappers printed with publisher's prospectus.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: RBC has detached wrappers for pt. 22 and 23 detached plates (4 without guard sheets) only; title leaf wanting.

OCLC:

3724626