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Denison, 1880. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. dr1. 41 lithographs from photos in a gift album. Done in an accordion style, the first plate is glued to the front cover, but is detached from the rest of the plates. As-Is.

Heininger, Circa 1890. Fair. Pacific Coast Album. San Francisco: Heininger, Circa 1890. 24 accordion bound photographic pages with 22 textpp. Illustrated. 12mo. Book condition: Fair. Front joint of binding is severed. Accordion fold is in two pieces. Text sewn but detached.. Each illustration page contains 3-5 sepia toned images.

C.P. Heininger, 1888. Soft cover. Good. A collection of very nice early photos of California and The West from the late 1800's, a special focus on Yosemite, but many of Oregon, Utah, and destinations in California. Dark green cloth boards, blind debossed designs on the front board and the Great Seal of California on the rear board. 10 leaves, publisher's ad as rear pastedown. Measures 7 1/2" by 5 5/8". Overall very good. Small stains to front and rear boards, edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, hinges are sound, the photos and text are clean.

Softcover. Very Good. Oblong folio. Flexible leather over paper boards, stamped with "Photographs" in gilt on front wrap. Wear at the edges of the wrappers, spine mostly eroded away, but sound and internally about fine. Album contains approximately 175 captioned photographs of a trip by seven employees (named on the "title page," with Dick identified as photographer) of the Lee Higginson & Co. investment banking firm (of Boston, Chicago, and New York) to Montana and Washington state. The album seems to be something of a combination of a sightseeing tour and an inventory of properties that the firm either held or were interested in acquiring in the West. Higginson & Co., aligned with other firms like J.P. Morgan, took over and consolidated many small power generation companies in the West, forming The Montana Power Company. The photographs are very nicely composed and all identified, illustrating mines, powerhouses, railways, dams, and other industrial sites from Portland to Tacoma, Seattle, Butte,… Read More