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Picturesque America, or, 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 / with illustrations on steel and wood by eminent American artists ; edited by William Cullen Bryant.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- United States--Pictorial works.
- Québec (Province)--Description and travel.
- Québec (Province).
- Québec (Province)--Pictorial works.
- Travel.
- Québec.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (vi, 568 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates ; viii, 576 pages, [25] leaves of plates) in 48 parts : frontispieces, illustrations, plates ; 33 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Picturesque America
- Land we live in
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Appleton and Company, ©1872-1874.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Added engraved title pages with tissue guards.
- The main literary work on this publication was done by Oliver B. Bunce. The introduction was written and proof-sheets read by W.C. Bryant. cf. J.C. Derby's "Fifty years among authors."
- "The title page and preface for volume one will be found in part first; the title-page of volume second, the table of contents and list of steel illustrations for volume one, and table of contents and list of steel illustrations for volume two, will all be voundy accompanying part forty-eight."--Part 48, page [2] of cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. Picturesque America, or, The land we live in.
- OCLC:
- 727582
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