Lot 63: WILLIS, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867). American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. London: George Virtue, 1840.

WILLIS, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867). American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. London: George Virtue, 1840.

30 original parts, 4υo (287 x 228 mm). Engraved map outlined in color, 2 engraved title pages, 118 ENGRAVED PLATES AFTER W. H. BARTLETT, notice slips at beginning of parts 5, 15, and 30. (Some browning and spotting throughout, a few leaves and plates dampstained.) Original buff-colored printed wrappers, advertisements on outside of back wrappers, modern slipcases (some soiling and light chipping, part 6 with small tear with at head of upper cover touching text, some wrappers separating from spine, lacking rear wrapper to part 21, 8 back wrappers in a different state than Abbey).

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. "Like Columbus, at first, we only dream of America. It is yet both a new and an unknown world to us, in regard to its scenes of natural beauty and sublimity. The Proprietors...have sought to produce a series of Select Views, which will form a characteristic Panorama of the Western World; especially in its Lake and River Scenery, which has no parallel in Europe, perhaps not on earth" (prospectus, back wrapper, part 1). Abbey Travel 651; Sabin 3784. (2)