NORTH AMERICA – [Photograph Album.] North American Views 1878 [thus titled to cover].

NORTH AMERICA – [Photograph Album.] North American Views 1878 [thus titled to cover].

Fine, large 19th-century photographs of North America, including views of New York, Chicago, Yosemite, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Nevada, Colorado and the Niagara Falls. The centres of political power of the Capitol in Washington and the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa are captured, as well as the Canadian cities of Quebec and Montreal.

65 original photographs of which 37 are large format (ranging approx. 220 x 300mm to 165 x 220mm), 19 medium format (ranging approx. 150 x 200mm to 90 x 140mm) and 9 small format (approx. 80 x 75mm), mounted on 26 leaves, oblong quarto (320 x 405mm), within manuscript ink-ruled borders and with manuscript captions (some light spotting, mainly confined to margins of leaves). Contemporary red morocco, panelled in gilt enclosing title on upper cover, gilt spine and edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).