Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 101425468X ISBN 13: 9781014254689
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Published by British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 124144241X ISBN 13: 9781241442415
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 124142571X ISBN 13: 9781241425715
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1862 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 21 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1873 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 46 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: German.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 39.
Published by San Francisco, Calif.: Arion Press/ Book Club of California., 1982
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. Prospectus for the Book Club of California edition. With plate no. 38. Arion Press. This is an advertisement for the book, not the book itself.
Published by California Historical Society?; Lawton R. Kennedy?, San Francisco, CA, 1940
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Published in a small edition. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. Original publisher's beige paper wrappers with staple binding. Red-brown lettering printed on front cover. No lettering on spine. 7" x 10 1/4." Twenty-four pages, complete. One printed black-and-white frontispiece portrait photograph of Edward Vischer, complete. Appendix and Notes in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning, a few brief pencil notations, and an almost imperceptible vertical crease running through the entire pamphlet. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight wear to extremities, a few faint marks, slight age toning, and the vertical crease on front and back. A Very Good copy. "Reprinted from Volume XIX, Number 3, California Historical Society Quarterly, September 1940." A collection of Edward Vischer's letters, reprinted herein, that he wrote during his first visit to California in 1842. Edward Vischer (1809-1878) was a German-American painter and photographer. Vischer is perhaps best-known for his pencil sketches of California made during the 1860s and 1870s. The trip described in these letters was undertaken for both business and leisure. At the time, Vischer was based in Mexico and worked for Heinrich Virmond. These letters are an invaluable source of Vischer's thoughts and experiences and a glimpse into the places and events of that time period. Vischer writes about his trip aboard the schooner California; his admiration of the California's crew members from the Pacific Islands; the rugged coastlines of Southern and Central California; Monterey's charm; his overland travel via horseback from Monterey to San Francisco; a trip by boat to Sonoma and meeting hunters, mountaineers, and an Indigenous man from the Pacific Northwest aboard this boat; meeting Guadalupe Vallejo in early Sonoma; visiting with a Franciscan monk at Mission San Francisco Solano; California Indigenous tribes; his return trip to Southern California; Santa Barbara; a frightening incident in which he thought a Hawai'ian man had been lost at sea but who was later found on another vessel; early Los Angeles; his enjoyment of California's beautiful scenery, agriculture, and food; his admiration of Californians on horseback; riders' practice of switching out their tired horses for strangers' horses and setting the latter loose to return once they reach their destination; being thrown from a poorly saddled horse and having to recuperate in Los Angeles; Mission San Gabriel; Mission San Juan Capistrano ruins; Mission San Luis Rey; and a tense experience when Micheltorena's convict soldiers were aboard the California on the first leg of the journey from Mexico to California. Erwin Gustav Gudde (1889-1969), translator and editor of this work, was a German-American professor and historian. As an undergraduate, Gudde had attended the University of California (UC Berkeley). In 1922, Gudde received his PhD in German language and literature from the University of California where, soon after, he became a faculty member until his retirement in 1956. Over the course of his career, Gudde developed an interest in the history of German Americans in California and other western states and the origins of place names. One of his most well-known books was California Place Names (1949). The printer of this book, Lawton Kennedy (1900-1980), was an American printer and noted figure of the Bay Area printing community. Kennedy worked for other well-known Bay Area printers including John Henry Nash, Jane Grabhorn's Colt Press, Albert Sperison's Black Vine Press, and Johnck & Seeger. In 1952, Kennedy opened his own printing press in San Francisco.
Published by San Francisco, California: Edward Vischer, [1874]., 1874
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. Print of Painting, Single Sheet 9.25" x 6", Oblong, Good with marginal tears. From Vischer's Pictorial Of California, likely the edition published in 1874.
Published by The Book Club of California,, San Francisco, 1982
Seller: Sabino Books, Oro Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Gilt-titles brown cloth, plain paper dust-jacket with a tear chipped, Authors name and title inked in on spine of the jacket. Limited to 600 copies, produced by the Arion Press under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. Oblong 4to. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. 44 pages, 44 leaves of plates : color illustrations, portraits .The plate captions are excerpted from Vischer's writings.
Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 0442273339 ISBN 13: 9780442273330
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 374p. Jacket has yellowed and shows edgewear. Deep bumps in board edges. Inscribed (in German) and signed by Wolfgang Preiser on front free endpaper. Above the inscription is a decorative ownership stamp. Otherwise unmarked, clean and bright. Sound binding. This item is oversized and may require additional postage for Priority Mail or shipment to addresses outside the US. Jacket Condition: Good +. Size: 4to. Year: 1991. Signed.
Published by Taylor & Francis, 2016
ISBN 10: 113888720X ISBN 13: 9781138887206
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: NEW. 388 pages. 10.87x8.62x1.18 inches. In Stock.
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Published by The Book Club of California, San Fancisco, California, 1982
Seller: Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. 1 of 600 copies in Limited Edition; oblong dimension 12 3/4"; title, publisher and date neatly penned on spine of plain paper dust jacket.
Published by The Book Club of California, 1982
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with near fine dust wrapper. Spine of plain white jacket is slightly yellowed. Limited to 600 copies. Oblong 4to.
Published by The Book Club of California, San Francisco. Publication nUmber 172., 1982
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. [Colophon]: "This book was produced by The Arion Press in San Francisco under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. The Monotype was composed by Mackenzie-Harris. The photolithography was printed by Phelps-Schaefer with color separations by Gregory & Falk. The paper, supplied by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead, is Rives Offset. The binding was done by Cardoza-James. The edition, limited to 600 copies, was completed in the fall of 1982.". 12 1/4 inches x 9 1/4 in., 44 pp., including bibliography and reproductions of the color plates; historical photographs. Brown cloth with the titling gilt on the spine and front cover; plain, cream paper dustjacket. This copy shows dampstaining to the top and lower margins/edges of the front and back covers, and to the dustjacket, the top margins/edges of the pages also show light damp. Weight: 3 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.
Published by The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1982
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
With a Biography of the Artist by Jeanne Van Nostrand. Introduction by Thomas Albright. Illustrated in color. Oblong folio, publisher's gold cloth in plain wrapper. First edition; one of 600 copies printed at the Arion Press. Bookplate; otherwise fine.
Published by The Book Club of California, California, 1982
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. A very fine copy in like new and unread condition in original shipping carton. Plain white jacket is brodart covered and in perfect condition. No chips, no tears to wrapper. Limited to 600 copies.
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. VISCHER, Edward (illustrator). (CALIFORNIA). VISCHER, Edward. Edward Vischer's California Drawings of the California Missions, 1861-1878. With a Biography of the Artist by Jeanne Van Nostrand. Introduction by Thomas Albright. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1982. Oblong 4to. Illus. with a frontis., photos and 44 color reproductions of Vischer's drawings. A fine copy in d/j. Limited to 600 copies.
Published by The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1982
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Oblong octavo, 44 color plates, seven photographs of the Vischer family, cloth. First edition. 600 copies printed at The Arion Press under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem. A fine copy in unprinted white dust jacket with touch of wear at edges. (#71589).
Published by Routledge 2015-06-10, 2015
ISBN 10: 1138886793 ISBN 13: 9781138886797
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: New.
Published by Edward Vischer, San Francisco, 1862
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
VISCHER, Edward (illustrator). First edition, third and best issue (with three more lithographs than the first issue). Title leaf (frontispiece) and twelve lithographic plates by Vischer, with a total of 25 engravings. Oblong folio, mount size (10 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 275 x 345 mm). The lithographer was C.C. Kuchel, and the printer L. Nagel. With the exception of the title leaf, the lithographs are mounted (as issued) and have letterpress descriptive text in purple. All plates are loose, as issued in the original cloth portfolio. Portfolio rebacked. Mounted on the inside of the front cover is a lithograph closely resembling the title leaf, but lacking printer's, lithographer's, and typographer's imprints. Mounted on the inside back cover is the "Index" and "Visitor's Guide." The present volume is Farquhar's state A, in a cloth portfolio rather than a pictorial paper envelope. In the envelope issue was a four-page folded sheet with text, which was not issued with this present issue. The text was reduced and edited and mounted on the inside rear cover of the cloth issue. Present with this copy and housed outside the portfolio is a good photocopy facsimile of the four pages that were issued with the envelope issue which include the "Introductory Remarks" by Vischer the "Appendix" and the "Description of Plates." These four pages are mounted on front and back of two thick boards. Plate titles include: The Approaches to the Grove; Mother of the Forest, The Three Graces, The Two Guardsmen; The Mammoth Grove Hotel; The Fallen Hercules of the Grove; Hermit; The Orphans, and others. Original cloth portfolio. Front board stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Almost invisibly rebacked, preserving the original spine. Some toning to the sheets mounted to the inside covers. Some light toning and offsetting to mounts, but plates are very clean and lovely. Overall, an excellent item; exceptionally rare, as are all Vischer publications. "Vischer visited the Calaveras Grove in 1859 and again in 1861, In 1862, following his second visit, a broadside and a portfolio reproducing his sketches by the lithographic process were issued. Lithographic reproduction ceased when the stone upon which the principal views were drawn was broken" (Currey & Kruska). Edward Vischer as a young man of nineteen emigrated from Germany to Mexico where he was associated with the commercial house of Heinrich Virmond. In the employ of Virmond, or other German-Latin American companies, he acted as supercargo on many trading voyages to west-coast ports of the Americas and to the Orient. In 1842, he became interested in California and agreed to travel there for Virmond. It was in this way that Vischer first came to know the region, anchoring at Monterey, taking an excursion northwest to the port of Yerba Buena, and visiting Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. On this visit he fell in love with California. He gladly returned to San Francisco where he was active in currency exchange operations, acted as agent for German-Mexican firms, as marine forwarding agent, as real estate agent, and as a mortgage banker. At the age of fifty, Vischer became intensely interested in sketching and painting. He combined with these interests a skill in photography. It was his practice to make rapid sketches on the spot of scenes which interested him, the big trees, the ruins of Missions, or mining operations, and later to work up these sketches in water colour, pencil, pen or crayon. Subsequently he reproduced his drawing, first by lithography and later by photography. Using these techniques, Vischer published portfolios of drawings: The Mammoth Tree Grove (1862), The Washoe Mining Region (1862), Pictorial of California Landscape (1870), and Missions of Upper California (1872). Farquhar 376, 3rd issue, state A. Cowan 1933, page 662; Greenwood 1740; Howes V132. HBS 68460. $15,000.
Published by Drawn and published by Edward Vischer [lithographed by Kuchel, printed by Nagel], San Francisco, 1862
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
4pp. text, plus additional leaf listing information for plates X, XI, and XII, letterpress index mounted on rear pastedown as issued. Lithographed title on card (repeated and mounted on front pastedown as issued), twelve lithographed plates on card containing twenty-five mounted lithographed illustrations. Small folio. Contents loose as issued. Original blue cloth portfolio with a small metal binder's label attached to the rear board reading: "Buswell & Co. SF." Binding straps perished, minor wear and light soiling to boards. Pastedowns and one text leaf toned, other text leaves edgeworn, scattered foxing, early 20th-century bookplate on rear endpaper. Overall, very good. The first edition, second issue of Edward Vischer's great work on the Mammoth Grove trees of California. Vischer migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen and worked with the commercial house of Heinrich Virmond. Dispatched to California in 1842, he became enamored of the area and returned to San Francisco in 1847, working as a merchant and agent for foreign companies during the Gold Rush. A talented amateur artist, Vischer began to sketch the California scenery he encountered. "In 1861 he visited the Calaveras Big Trees.In 1862 he published a portfolio of a dozen lithographed plates of sketches made on his trip" - Peters. This would be his first published work. Apparently unsatisfied with the way lithography captured his original drawings, Vischer republished the work with albumen photographs of them. Both versions are very rare. Currey & Kruska cite three issues of the lithographed version; the present example is their second issue, with the lithographed title plate reading ".9 Plates With 22 Engravings" but consisting of twelve plates with twenty-five engravings. This is, effectively, a transitional state between Currey & Kruska's first and third issues, with the full complement of plates and engravings of the third issue and with the extra leaf of text containing the description of the additional plates, but with the first issue of the lithographed title plate (repeated and mounted on front pastedown as issued). The cloth portfolio on this copy is intriguing as well. Usually issued in a brown cloth portfolio with gilt titles on the upper cover, this copy of Vischer is housed in a simple blue cloth binding produced by Buswell & Co., an early San Francisco bookbinder. Alexander Buswell was active in San Francisco from about 1856 until 1905, when his bindery was likely destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco fire. Obviously produced specifically for this work, with the correct lithographed plates mounted to the endpapers, the reason for the different binding on this copy from others we have seen escapes us at present. The bookplate on the rear endpaper belongs to George Cary; the most prominent George Cary was a major architect from Buffalo, New York, most widely known for his designs for the Pan American Exposition of 1901. An excellent example of Vischer's great lithographed work on Mammoth Grove. COWAN, p.662. CURREY & KRUSKA 376 (second issue). FARQUHAR 5. HOWES V132, "b." STREETER SALE 2877. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.198-202.
Published by Printed by Joseph Winterburn & Company, San Francisco, 1870
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
[2],8,[2, Contents leaf from vol. II],[129]- 132 (the Concluding Remarks from vol. II),[2, advertisement leaf for his similarly-titled 1867 work],[7, mounted photographic map of California; general contents leaf; contents leaf to "60 Views of California Landscape," contents leaf to the First Series]pp. plus 114 mounted photographs from drawings executed in pencil and wash, and sectional titlepages bound at intervals. Titlepage and preliminary text printed in red. Tall quarto. Original three-quarter green morocco and pebbled cloth, front board and spine gilt. Boards lightly rubbed and moderately shelfworn. Binders ticket of Bartling & Kimball of San Francisco on front pastedown. Bookplate of noted collector Kenneth Hill on front pastedown. Small stain in upper margin of final twenty leaves, otherwise very clean internally. Very good plus. The John Howell-Kenneth Hill copy of what is likely a preliminary issue of Edward Vischer's album of photographs of his drawings of California landscape. This copy is complete as issued, containing all the plates called for in the general table of contents, but lacking the accompanying text volume except for three leaves that have been inserted along with the preliminary matter. It is unknown why this particular copy was assembled in this way, and we cannot locate any comparable copies, but Palmquist and Kailbourn note: "Vischer was perennially generous in distributing custom-assembled albums of his art, both original works and photographic reproductions." It is possible that it numbers among the twenty copies that Vischer initially sold by subscription, before offering an expanded version in a variety of formats. At the very least, this seems to be an early state of Vischer's PICTORIAL OF CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE. Including a photographic map of California tipped-in to a blank preliminary leaf, this copy contains 115 mounted photographs, in the following groups: sixty numbered photographs arranged in five series, each preceded by a printed contents leaf; twenty-eight unnumbered plates preceded by a printed section-title, "Trees and Forest Scenes"; twenty-six unnumbered plates preceded by a printed section-title, "Supplement. Grand Features and Characteristic Ranges of Californian Scenery." Vischer created the drawings that he photographed for this album between 1858 and 1867. Featured are photographs of his drawings of missions, ranches, landscapes, towns and small settlements, buildings, the Big Trees, scenes in the Sierra Nevada, passes and summits, and Lake Tahoe. A few images feature camels among the mammoth trees or in Carson Valley (an experiment of the 1860s). The first sixty images are affixed to mounts bearing a printed copyright notice of 1863, and a few of the mounts in this grouping feature the blindstamp of San Francisco photographer George Howard Johnson, whom Vischer contracted in the early 1860s to photograph his work (as noted by Palmquist & Kailbourn). The final "Supplement" section features photographs of art not only by Vischer, but also by Thomas Hill, Thomas Ayres, and other artists, as well as drawings by Vischer of Yosemite photographs by Carleton Watkins. Edward Vischer emigrated from Bavaria to Mexico at age nineteen and worked for a commercial house as a supercargo on voyages to Pacific ports in the Americas and in Asia. He visited California in 1842 before returning in 1849 to settle in San Francisco as an importer, merchant, realtor, and commission agent, and from early on he began making sketches of the natural wonders of his new home. In the 1860s he began experimenting with ways to reproduce his art, first using lithography, but he soon became disenchanted with the ability of the lithographs to faithfully reproduce his artwork and by the tendency of the lithographic stones to break. As a result, Vischer began to photograph his drawings, issuing the photographs in published albums. "Although evidently not a photographer, Edward Vischer was one of the first people to.
Published by Joseph Winterburn & Company, San Francisco, 1870
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
[8],[3 (Concluding Remarks)],[2 (advertisement leaf for his similarly-titled 1867 work)],[3 (table of contents for the first section)],[2 (mounted photographic map of California and "Localization of Subjects" leaf)]pp., plus 169 additional mounted photographs, mostly from drawings executed in pencil and wash, and sectional titlepages. Text pages printed variously in red or purple. Tall quarto. Original richly gilt green morocco by Bartling and Kimball, gilt dentelles, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Corners bumped and rubbed, wear along joints and spine ends. Early ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper (see below). Very clean internally, the photo images clean and fresh. A near fine copy overall, in its original deluxe binding. A singular work of California art and iconography, VISCHER'S PICTORIAL OF CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE. stands alone in its depiction of the state in the second half of the 19th century. Called by Weber "preeminently the greatest artist in the early history of our state," Vischer created dozens of drawings of California scenes and scenery from on-the-spot observations, and reproduced them in albumen photographs. "The drawings, executed in pencil and wash, cover a wide range of subjects, including a rare commemoration of the brief introduction of camels to California. Of special importance are the drawings of the missions which interested Vischer throughout his life" - Howell. Cowan notes that copies of Vischer's work often vary in the number of plates, as we have also discovered from experience, though it appears that the complete complement for this deluxe edition in gilt green morocco is 170, as here. In this copy, the first section ("Californian Landscape") features sixty photographs split into five sets of twelve, including scenes in forests and mining camps, the Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, several California missions (of great interest to Vischer), Donner Lake, the San Bernardino mountains, a few depictions of camels (a military experiment of the 1850s and 60s), and more. This is followed by a section of twenty-seven photographs of trees and forest scenes, including giant Sequoias and redwoods, the Mammoth tree grove, and Cypress trees. Finally is a large and loosely organized section of sixty-eight "miscellaneous views," which include numerous additional works by Vischer, contributions by other artists, and actual photographs which include images of the Japanese Embassy, a large nugget of gold, and the Great Pacific Railroad. Of Vischer's works, AMERICA PICTURED TO THE LIFE states: ".there are no contemporary publications quite comparable to them in their eccentric combination of media; the confusion is compounded by the bewildering array of formats, issues, and reissues the artist ultimately produced." Edward Vischer (1809-78) migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen, working for commercial houses, and acting as the supercargo on trading voyages to Pacific ports in the Americas and Asia. Dispatched to California in 1842, he became enamored of the area and returned to San Francisco in 1847, working as a merchant and agent for foreign companies during the Gold Rush. A talented amateur artist, Vischer began to sketch the California scenery he encountered. "In 1861 he visited the Calaveras Big Trees.In 1862 he published a portfolio of a dozen lithographed plates of sketches made on his trip" - Peters. Dissatisfied with the compromises necessitated by the change in medium, and frustrated by the technical and physical setbacks caused by working on stone, he abandoned this method in favor of photographs of his drawings, resulting in the curious mixed-media work at hand. "Although evidently not a photographer, Edward Vischer was one of the first people to foresee the possibilities of photography as a means of reproducing fine art in books" - Palmquist & Kailbourn. This copy bears the early ownership signature of Henry E. Robinson. This is qui.