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Views on the Denver & Rio Grande

Currency:USD Category:Books / Nonfiction Books Start Price:180.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Views on the Denver & Rio Grande
<B> VIEWBOOK . Album of Views on the Denver & Rio Grande.</B></I> ( Denver, Colorado: W.H. Lawrence Co., 1886 ). Fourteen fold-out photographic panels with twenty-one views, including: Garden of the Gods and Pike's Peak, Manitou, Williams Canon near Manitou, Veta Pass, Sierra Blanca, Wagon Wheel Gap, Toltec Gorge and tunnel, Phantom Curve, Silverton and Sultan Mountain, Royal Gorge, Upper Twin Lake, Fremont Pass, Mount of the Holy Cross, Marshall Pass (eastern and western slopes), Currecanti Needle in the Black Canon of the Gunnison, Chipeta Falls, Castle Gate in Price Canon, Gunnison Butte on the Green River, and the Great Salt Lake. Small quarto (7.5” x 5.5”). Original boards of reddish-brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Faded, rubbed and worn, with some splitting along the spine and joints. Internally some of the folds are separated so that the contents are loose in the binding. A fair copy of a scarce viewbook.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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