Oakes, William

Scenery of the White Mountains: with sixteen plates, from the drawings of Isaac Sprague. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Company, 1848

Fol๊io (429 x 318 mm). 16 lithographed plates by F. F. Oakley's Litho. or S. W. Chandler & Bro. Litho. after Isaac Sprague. Original green cloth, title t🦋o upper cover within a gilt-blocked decorative vignette; rebacked to style.

A classic series of landscape views of New Hampshire and Maine

The lithographed plates comprise: 1) The White Mountains; 2) Mount Crawford; 3) The Notch of the White Mountains; 4) The Lower Cascade of the Notch; 5) The Gate of the Notch; 6) The Falls of the Amonoosuck; 7) The Granite Cliffs of the Falls (two views on one ꦍplate); 8) The Franconia Notch; 9) Profile Mountain at Franconia; 10) The Profile Rock; 11) The Basin, in Lincoln, N.H.; 12) The Flume, in Lincoln, N.H.; 13) Nancy's Bridge; 14) Mt. Crawford, from the Notch (two views on one plate); 15) Mount Washington (two views on one plate); and 16) Mt. Washington, over Tuckerman's Ravine.

REFERENCE

Howes O1; Sabin 56387