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"A power which none can resist...."

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:30.00 USD Estimated At:60.00 - 80.00 USD
 A power which none can resist....
The Falls of Niagara: "being a Complete Guide to all the Points of Interest around and in the Immediate Neighbourhood of the Great Cataract," Nelson's Pictorial Guide-Books, N.Y., c. 1865. 4 x 6 1/2 oblong, 45 pp., grape cloth elaborately stamped in black, gold shield, large inlaid pistachio and cream paper label, butter-yellow endleaves. Text entirely printed in water-blue. With 11 (of 12?) lovely mezzotint plates on stiff bristol leaves, in simulated-color, including "Three Sisters & Goat Island, from Canada side," "American Falls," "Terrapin Tower & Horse Shoe Fall...," dramatic view of "Niagara in Winter..." with massive blocks of ice, "Niagara Cast Iron Bridge," "Suspension Bridge & Rapids above the Falls," "Whirlpool near Niagara," and others. Possibly lacking map, however the components of this guidebook varied slightly over its numerous printings. Old whitish dampstain at spine and left portion of cover, not affecting label, inner hinges broken, slightly shaken, else internally fine and clean. Sabin 55116.