[White Mountains]. [McLellan, Isaac.] The Avalanche, 1846; & Sweetser, M. F. Views in the White Mountains, 1881 or 1882.

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[ISAAC MCLELLAN]. THE AVALANCHE OF THE WHITE HILLS: AUGUST 28TH, 1826. BOSTON: JONES' POWER PRESS OFFICE, 1846 — MOSES F. SWEETSER. VIEWS IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. WITH DESCRIPTIONS. PORTLAND, MAINE: CHISHOLM BROTHERS [FRANKLIN PRESS, PRINTED BY RAND, AVERY, & CO., BOSTON, 1881 OR 1882]

Together, 2 volumes. McLellan: 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 210 x 133 mm). Original pink printed wrappers, some spotting, upper right corner of upper cover torn with some paper loss. Sweetser: 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.). 13 photographic heliotype plates, each followed by a leaf of text. Publisher's brown buckram, covers stamped in black, upper cover lettered in gilt. Publisher's printed dust-jacket; spine ends and corners chipped, some light browning and soiling.

Two interesting White Mountain items. McLellan's work is an early White Mountain narrative, published the same year as the earliest White Mountains classic, Lucy Crawford's History of the White Mountains. The author was a noted poet and sportsman who wrote about hunting and fishing in verse.

The very rare dust-jacket is present on this copy of Sweetser's photographic album. Not in Tanselle's list of nearly 1900 book-jackets before 1901. 

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