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[Western Americana] Möllhausen Det Vestlige Nordamerikas P.C. Philipsens 1862 Baldwin Möllhausen. M. Novsing, translator. Alexander Humboldt, preface. Vandringer Giennem det Vestlige Nordamerikas Prærier og Udørkener fra Missisippi til Sydhavets Kyster . Kjøbenhavn: P. C. Philipsens, 1862. First Danish language edition. Octavo. 476pp. Illustrated with nine color lithograph plates after designs by the author, includes folding map. Bound in burgundy half leather ober black leather boards, stamped in gilt to spine, four raised bands, patterned endleaves. Howes, M-713; Wagner Camp, 305:5; Sabin, 49914; Smith, 6909. Streeter, V 3134. Scarce Danish edition of Möllhausen's Tagebuch Einer Reise vom Mississippi... (Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition), one of the best accounts of the Pacific Railroad Survey of the southern route under the command of A.W. Whipple. The striking color lithographs are after drawings by Möllhausen, a trained artist who came to the United States in 1849 and had accompanied the Duke of Württemberg on his expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1851. - Graff 2849 Light sunning to spine; extremities rubbed and edgeworn; joints just starting at spine tail; front hinge tender; minor interior toning; some plates with light dampstaining. Very good. COL-00133A Please visit our eBay store for more books on Western Americana! https://www.ebay.com/str/inkqnabula/Western-Americana/_i.html?_storecat=37564155014
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