[LITHOGRAPHY]. OAKES, William (1799-1848). Scenery of The White Mountains: With Sixteen Plates, from the Drawings of Isaac Sprague. Boston: Wm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1848. Folio. Illustrated with all 16 lithograph plates (all dated 1848) interleaved with 16 corresponding text leaves containing explanatory text and blanks protecting the plates. [iv], 4 pp. Approximately 15 x 11 ½”. All edges gilt. Bound in publisher’s full fine black cloth boards with gilt vignette on the front board, all edges gilt (expertly rebacked using matching black cloth, new endleaves; some scattered foxing on several plates, but most are quite clean). Overall a very good copy. RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION. Howes O-1 “b”. A series of handsome landscape views in New Hampshire and Maine: 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 plate)
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.