[Rarebooks] FS: Mollhausen's "Journey from the Mississippi to the... Pacific" London: 1858. w/map & chromollithographs

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(TRAVEL) Mollhausen, Baldwin. DIARY OF A JOURNEY FROM THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE COASTS OF THE PACIFIC. With an Introduction by Alexander von Humboldt and Illustrations in Chromo-Lithography. Translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnett. In Two Volumes. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. 1858. First English edition. 2 vols. xxx,(2),352;x,(2),397,(1)pp. Without half-titles. Illustrated with 11 colored lithographs, 12 text woodcuts and a copper engraved folding map outlined in color. Finely bound by "New" (circa 1900) in full polished green calf, gilt tooled spines.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)

This work was published in the same year as the German first edition, but has different illustrations. HILL COLLECTION OF PACIFIC VOYAGES, 1175. Howes M718.

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