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12mo (6.25" x 4.75"), gilt title on royal blue cloth. [10] pp. ads., 1 tipped-in folded map, 18" x 21", xxxi, [3], 48 pp., 1 tipped-in folded map, 9" x 7", [5] pp. ads. 3 original albumen print photos mounted on plates. CONDITION: Good, damp-stain along upper fore-edge of cover with small patch of color rubbed away, a few minor marks to back-cover; contents clean, photo contrast excellent; maps good, a few short separations along folds. A rare issue of the Bar Harbor Blue Book illustrated with three mounted photographs. Includes routes to and from, tables, and individual chapters on Topography and History; Literature on Mount Desert; Laws concerning Carriages; Bar Harbor and Boating, Walks, Hotels, and more. Folding maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert are included as well. The Bar Harbor map is followed by the "Blue Book" sectiona society directory listing residents, each numbered and located on the map. This is one of a small number of copies of this work that were illustrated with three original photographs. They are domed half-stereoviews and are likely the work of Bryant Bradley (18381890), originally from Cornish, Maine, who lived and worked in Bar Harbor in the 1870s and '80s. Similar half stereoviews known to be Bradley's work illustrate various editions of Clara Barnes Martin's Mount Desert on the Coast of Maine. The subjects of the photos included here are: "Witch Hollow Brook" (waterfall), "Duck Brook" (rustic bridge over the rushing brook), and a view of Bar Harbor from Frenchman's Bay. A rare and especially appealing issue of this interesting guidebook. REFERENCES: Not in Williamson; Thompson, Edward V. Important Maine Maps, Books, Prints and Ephemera (Orono, 2003), #273.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small hardcover, bound in bright blue cloth with gold lettering on the cover. Some specks and minor rubbing to the covers, but overall quite nice and bright. Binding good and tight. 10 pages of ads precede the title page, with wonderful descriptions of Mount Desert services and inns. Folding map of Bar Harbor opposite the title page shows buildings on land and soundings off shore. Some minor foxing to title page. XXI + 48 numbered pages, followed by 6 more pages of ads. Small folding map of Mount Desert present and in very good condition in amongst the ads at the rear. Lists the owners of Bar Harbor houses by street. Measures only 4.75 x 6 inches. Scarce. This is a particularly nice copy, from a house on Great Cranberry where it has spent the last century. This is the original 1881 book, not a reprint. Some copies of this book had a trio of albumen photos bound in; this copy does not. Please email with questions or to request photos.