Bijou illustrations of the United States. Rock Brothers & Payne. [London]. Circa 1850.

Engraved thoughout. Title-page, frontispiece and 30 full-page illustrations, , printed on one side of leaf only, with captions. Unpaginated text. Lacks front free endpaper. Split in gutter between two plates  towards the end. All edges gilt. Original yellow endpapers. No inscriptions. 26 x 30 mm. Original full black limp leather with blocked gilt titling within proprietorial gilt acorn and oak leaf border. Lightly patinated and in very good condition.   Bondy, 152. Not in  Spielmann. Welsh, 1277. OCLC, 1251805106. WorldCat records four copies worldwide (New York Historical, Washington St. Louis, New York State, and Pierpont Morgan). According to Bondy, this is "the rarest of these lovely topographical volumes".