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VISCHER (EDWARD) Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, San Francisco, printed by Joseph Winterburn & Co, 1870 image 1
VISCHER (EDWARD) Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, San Francisco, printed by Joseph Winterburn & Co, 1870 image 2
VISCHER (EDWARD) Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, San Francisco, printed by Joseph Winterburn & Co, 1870 image 3
VISCHER (EDWARD) Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, San Francisco, printed by Joseph Winterburn & Co, 1870 image 4
VISCHER (EDWARD) Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, San Francisco, printed by Joseph Winterburn & Co, 1870 image 5
VISCHER (EDWARD) Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, San Francisco, printed by Joseph Winterburn & Co, 1870 image 6
VISCHER (EDWARD) Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, San Francisco, printed by Joseph Winterburn & Co, 1870 image 7
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VISCHER (EDWARD)
Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, San Francisco, 1870

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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VISCHER (EDWARD)

Vischer's Pictorial of California, Landscape Trees and Forest Scenes Grand Features of California Scenery Life Traffic and Customs, 101 mounted albumen prints (mostly after artworks by Edward Vischer, of which 60 landscape views, 26 trees and forest scenes, and 14 "grand features" of California, and a map), captions and text printed in red, some toning and occasional faint spots, contemporary green half morocco, gilt title on upper cover, g.e., worn, boards detached [Cowan II, 662], large 4to (343 x 300mm.), San Francisco, printed by Joseph Winterburn & Co, 1870

Footnotes

Cowan notes that copies of Vischer's work often vary in the number of plates, and the number of mounted plates in each given set is rarely the same. Bibliographers have concluded that the book appeared with between 100 or 120 plates.

In this copy, the first section ("Californian Landscape") features sixty photographs including scenes in forests and mining camps, the Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, several California missions (of great interest to Vischer), Donner Lake, the San Bernardino mountains and more. The second section includes twenty-five photographs of trees and forest scenes (giant sequoias and redwoods, the Mammoth tree grove, Cypresses, etc.), plus the additional pictorial title, but without the "The Remarks" found in some copies. The final section includes "Grand Features and Characteristic Ranges of Californian Scenery", featuring views of the Yosemite Valley, the Sierra Nevada and Mount Shasta.

Provenance: "T.H. Jackson Esq. with Mr and Mrs Meyer's compliments", early inscription on the title-page.

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