Steele`s Niagara Falls Port-folio, buff wrapper

Lot 186
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 186 | Steele's Niagara Falls Port-folio, buff wrapper
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$ 500 – 800
Steele's Niagara Falls Port-folio, buff wrapperOliver Steele, 1843STEELE, Oliver (1805-1879). Steele's Niagara Falls Port-folio. Buffalo: Steele's Press, 1843. Scarce pamphlet of views of Niagara after the work of William Henry Bartlett, with a variant printed wrapper bound in. Guides to Niagara Falls were a local specialty of Buffalo printers; local publisher and bookseller Oliver Steele printed a panoply of editions and variations. This pamphlet is views only, bound with its original buff wrappers, a variation on the green wrappers described by McMurtrie (see online sale). Sabin reports an 1842 edition of this work; all are rare at auction. McMurtrie, Buffalo 92; Dow, Niagara page 900 (1844 edition; "some of the views are very good"); Sabin 91139. Quarto (204 x 163mm). 9 lithographs, including frontispiece reproducing Hennepin's view of Niagara, tissue guards (some toning and spotting). 20th-century Canadian marbled boards with original buff printed wrappers bound in (surface wear to spine). Provenance: Miss EB Hilles, May 1880 "through RP Johnson" (signature on wrapper and title) – Historical Society of Delaware (stamp with duplicate mark) – Eugene Musial (bookplate).
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