PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN - Part 8; with Steel Engraving of The Mount Washington Road

Folio 13" - 23" tall; 169-192 pages; Wrappers are toned at edges, quarter inch piece missing from lower interior corners (not affecting text or images), steel engraving and other illustrations are clean and in Very Good condition. This is Part 11 of the 48 numbers comprising pages 241through 264 of the complete work Picturesque America. The individual parts were sent to subscribers in loose gatherings housed in blue printed wrappers as they were published; then subscribers would have them bound to their specifications. 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. This fascicule includes a full page (13.5" x 9.75") steel engraving of The Mount Washington Road; end of the chapter on Mauch Chunk; chapter on Lookout Mountain and The Tennessee with illustrations by Harry Fenn; beginning of chapter on The Pacific Slope with illustrations by R. Swain Gifford; eight full page woodcuts -- Mauch Chunk and Mout Pisgah, Mauch Chunk from foot of Mount Pisgah, Lookout Mountain from the Point, Chattanooga and the Tennessee from Lookout Mountain, Ferry at Chattanooga, The Tennessee at Chattanooga, Coast at Mendocino, and Scene at the Mouth of the Russian River; and several partial page illustrations from woodcuts.…