Author: (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
Title: The City of Washington: Photo-Gravures
Description: New York, A. Wittemann, 1898. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Green cloth with large front board silver and ivory lettering and pictorial stamping. (Ca. 100pp). All edges gilt. Very good. Quite minor binding edgewear only, with inoffensive abrasion near foot of spine and small coffee ring on rear board; else tight with text block near fine (but for one edgeworn plate); tiny Wisconsin convent inkstamp near bottom of title page. Nice first edition of this extensive pictorial tour of Washington's buildings, monuments and other famed sites. Custom gilt presentation inkstamp to rear board: "To Mother General / from / Class 1896 -- '97 -- '98 -- '99. / Academy of the Sacred Heart. .

Keywords: Americana Photography


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