DANA, Charles A. (1819?1897), editor.?The United States Illustrated; In Views of City and Country. With Descriptive and Historical Articles.?New York: Hermann J. Meyer, [1855]. 2 volumes, small 4to. 82 steel?engraved plates including 2 additional engraved title?pages (Howes calls for seventy?seven plates; Sabin notes only 36 plates). (Heavy foxing or browning throughout). Original dark olive morocco gilt, covers with recessed oval design gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles (extremes heavily rubbed, some surface wear at corners, splitting to rear joint of Vol. II near foot). FIRST EDITION in a deluxe publisher?s binding, containing handsome steel?engravings throughout the country, many executed by Herman J. Meyer. Views include: California gold diggings, San Francisco, Niagara, West Point, Mount Vernon, the Plains, New Orleans, St. Louis, and many others. Howes D45 (final edition calls this ?dd? or ?superlatively rare?); Sabin 18396.