ID 965152
Lot 61 | Souvenir of Niagara
Estimate value
$ 700 – 1 000
Buffalo, NY, 1864
NIAGARA FALLS – Souvenir of Niagara Falls with a series of views in Oil Colors, from Photographs Taken on the Spot. Buffalo: Sage, Sons & Co., 1864.
Scarce and early Niagara Falls chromolithograph souvenir. Includes a speech by John Quincy Adams which may be the first book-form appearance. There are lengthy descriptions of all the familiar sights and legends, Niagara-inspired poetry, and summary guides translated into French and Spanish. We locate no copies in the auction records and only three in OCLC. Dow, p.233.
Oblong quarto (220 x 284mm). With four chromolithograph plates, in gilt oval borders and captioned. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt-lettered (neatly recased, some sunning).Niagara Falls
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