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By Baldwin Mollhausen, Topographical Draughtsman and Naturalist to the Expedition. With an Introduction by Alexander von Humboldt and illustrations in chromolithography. Translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnett. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 Contemporary full calf, 8vo. xi,397pp. frontispiece and 4 chromolithographs, 8 monochrome plates, 3 text-illustrations. Mollhausen was a Prussian artist who visited the United States three times in the 1850s. In 1853 he joined Lieutenant Amiel Weeks Whipple's Pacific Railroad survey of the Thirty-fifth parallel; with many interesting accounts of the American South-west and it's inhabitants. Joints on spine a little weak, slight foxing to the chromolithos, a very nice copy of the first edition of the second volume in a contemporary brown calf with marbled end-papers and edges. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our… Read More

London: Longman, Brown, Green , Longmans, & Roberts,, 1858. 1st . Hardcover. Fair/No Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2vol.set: 352pp.&397pp.+advert; HBs; red emboss design w/gilt on spines; heavy rub&sole w/edges&corners worn; scuff,tears,sun&soil w/chips on spines; hinges cracked&losening; v1.ft.endpaper detached; 1x2"chip on margin,map,vol.1.; adverts on pastedwns.; some tan&soil,otherwise clean,tight pgs. Intro.by Alexander Von Humboldt. color lithographs & woodcuts.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1858. Hardcover. Very Good. . 2-volume set, complete. Bound in red, half-leather with cloth, raised bands, gilt on the spine. Covers shows minor wear and rubbing. Rubbing from removed bookplates on the front pastedowns. Pages are tanned and clean.

Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858. Very Good. Mollhausen, Baldwin. Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition. 2 volumes. Sinnett, translator, Mrs. Percy [Patience]; Von Humboldt, introduction, Alexander. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858. 1st edition. 352, 397pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Midnight blue cloth with gilt lettered backstrips. Book condition: Good with reattached front board and accompanying hinge repair with white archival paper. A former owner's postal label is on the front free endsheet of volume I. A few gutters are a bit tight. Text block of volume I is cracked in center and adjascent gatherings are loose. Contains seven full color plates, three tinted and a tinted folding map.

London: Longman, [et. al.], 1858. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo; pp. [iii]-xxx [2], 352; x, [2], 397, [1], [2] ads; folding map (short split at one fold), 11 lithograph plates (7 chromolithographs, 4 tinted), plus 8 uncolored plates, and several illustrations in the text; 20th-century brown morocco-backed boards, smooth gilt-lettered spine; old faint pressure stamp on title pages; preliminaries in volume I bound out of order with title and table of contents (A2 and A3) coming at the end of the preface; overall appearance is near fine. "Experiences and observations of the author while with the Whipple expedition, of which his is the best account" (Howes). "Mollhausen was the artist and topographer accompanying the party ... in the Pacific Railroad Survey Exploration of the thirty-fifth parallel in 1853" (Wagner-Camp). Abbey, Travel, 661; Graff 2849; Field 1080; Howes M-713; Sabin 49915; Streeter 3134; Wagner-Camp 305:2; Wheat, Gold Regions, 268.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmands, & Roberts, 1858. First edition, first printing. Browning to gutter at page 263 in volume II, light chipping to leading edge of map, inked name to both volumes, pages slightly toned, both leather and marbled paper with some scuffs and rubbing, overall very good to near fine with hinges and joint firm and with plates clean, in custom mylar covers.. One-half red calf over marbled boards. Introduction by Alexander Von Humboldt. Wagner, 305:1. Howes, M713.

London, 1858.. Two volumes. [iii]-xxx,[2],352; x,[2],397,[1]pp., including in-text illustrations, plus nineteen total plates (including two frontispieces), seven of which are chromolithographs and four of which are tinted. Folding map. Modern brown crushed morocco, spines gilt, a.e.g. Half title in first volume remargined in the gutter. Tiny library stamp on verso of titlepage and page 51 of the first volume, and to the verso of the half title and page 51 of the second volume. Some faint staining in the edges of the earliest leaves in the first volume, and final three leaves of second volume. Overall very good. The first English edition, translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnet, with an introduction by Alexander von Humboldt, of one of the most important accounts of the American West. "...One of the best travel books of [the] age" - Goetzmann. Möllhausen accompanied Whipple's expedition to survey a route to the Pacific, serving as the party's naturalist and artist. The text is devoted largely to excellent… Read More

1858. MOLLHAUSEN, Heinrich Baldwin. Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition....London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. 1st English ed. 2 Vols. xxx, [2], 352;x, [2], 397, [2]pp. plus eighteen plates (seven chromolithographs) including frontises., and folding map. Four illustrations in text. Contemporary doubled gilt-ruled polished calf, spines elaborate gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, gilt -chamfered edges, all edges marbled. Tiny chip to one label, else very good. Goetzmann, Army Exploration, p. 310. Graff 2849. Field 1080 Mintz 582. Sabin 49915. Wheat Gold Regions 268. Howes M-713. Abbey 661. Wagner-Camp 305:2. Streeter Sale 3134. Wheat Transmississippi 956. Reese, Best of the West 151. The first English edition, translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnet, with an introduction by Alexander von Humboldt. One of the most important accounts of the American West. "...One of the best… Read More