TURNER, AUSTIN A. Villas on the Hudson. A Collection of Photo-Lithographs of Thirty-One Country Residences. 31 hand-colored

photolithographed plates; 21 lithographed plans. Oblong folio, original leather-backed printed boards, rebacked; light foxing throughout. New York, 1860 FIRST EDITION of a work documenting large homes and estates along the Hudson River valley. "This is the first major work executed with photolithographic plates in the United States... The success of photolithographs was highly unpredictable, but this was one of the more successful experiments" --The Truthful Lens 173. Hitchcock 1275.