America: Picturesque and Descriptive, in Three Volumes

viii, 510; viii, 514; viii, 592 pp. Three volume set. Photographic plates throughout. Top page ridges gilt, gilt decor. VOLUME I CONTENTS: The Environment of Chesapeake Bay; The Great Theatre of the Civil War; The Valley of the Delaware; Crossing the Alleghenies; Visiting the Sunny South; Traversing the Prairie Land; Glimpses of the Great Northwest. VOLUME II CONTENTS: Around the Harbor of New York; The Environment of Long Island Sound; Ascending the Hudson River; A Glimpse of the Berkshire Hills; The Adirondacks and Their Attendant Lakes; Crossing the Empire State; Descending the River St. Lawrence. VOLUME III CONTENTS: The Old Bay State; The Neighborhood of Narragansett; The Connecticut River and White Mountains; Going Down East; From the Ohio to the Gulf; The Valley of the Mississippi; The Rockies and Pacific Coast.