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Lot 269
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$600 -
800
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DELLENBAUGH, Frederick S. (1853-1935). The Grand Cañon of Arizona Through the Stereoscope. New York and London: Underwood & Underwood, 1908 [copyright 1904].
12mo (164 x 84 mm). 18 albumen print stereoscope cards, original 64-page text booklet with 2 maps (one folding, with a 50 mm tear to fold affecting title). Text in original brown cloth gilt, housed with stereoscope cards (loose as issued) in original brown cloth slipcase and chemise (slight rubbing to extremities).
Presumed later edition, with images depicting the Santa Fe Railroad crossing Cañon Diablo, prospecting for gold, and landscape artist Thomas Moran sketching at Bright Angel Cove, and numerous scenic views. Titles on the verso of the mounts in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian.
