Author: Hunter, William S. Title: Hunter's Ottawa Scenery, in the Vicinity of Ottawa City, Canada
Description: Ottawa, William S. Hunter, 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. pp. 19. Folio. Rebacked blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board, page edges gilt. Newer endpapers. 15 engravings and a map: frontispiece, vignette title, fold-out map, 13 tinted lithographed plates with tissue guards. Some foxing to tissue guards. An important early view book of Ottawa, this edition with the addition of railroad routes to the folding map. Lithographs by John Perry Newell and John Henry Bufford; after William S. Hunter. With 6 of the views attributed to Winslow Homer, thus representing his earliest book illustrations. Text in double columns. Sabin 33937. TPL 3563. .
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Price: CAD 1444.61 = appr. US$ 998.66 Seller: Bison Books
- Book number: 082714
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