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14000 SEK

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AMERICA. MÖLLHAUSEN, BALDUIN. Tagebuch einer Reise von Mississippi nach den Küsten der Südsee... Eingeführt von Alexander von Humboldt. Leipzig (Hermann Mendelssohn) 1858.

4to (c. 302 x 233 mm.). (12), (I)-XIV, (2, verso blank), (1)-494, (2, "Erläuterungen zu der Karte) pp. Title with woodcut vignette, 1 folding partly coloured lithograph map, 7 chromolithographed plates mounted on card and 6 tinted lithographed plates after Möllhausen, 10 wood-engravings in text.
Contemporary brown half calf, partly worn, gilt spine in five compartments, damaged in upper compartment which is loose. Some occasional faint foxing, light finger smudges in margins of a few leaves.

Sabin 49914. First edition.
The work is best remembered for its beautiful plates depicting native Americans and sceneries of the Southwest.

Auktionsnummer:

6119

Datum:

2019-06-14