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Author: Möllhausen, Baldwin
Title: Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition
Place Published: London
Publisher:Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts
Date Published: 1858
Description:

2 volumes. [iii]-xxx, [2], 352; x, [2], 397, [1] pp. Illustrated with 10 (of 11) lithograph plates (including both frontispieces); woodcut plates and illustrations within text; folding steel-engraved map (with some period hand-coloring) showing the author's route. (8vo) 21.5x13.5 cm (8½x5 ¼") later green half calf and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. First English Edition.

One of the best accounts of the Pacific Railroad Survey of the southern route under the command of A.W. Whipple, noteworthy for the striking color lithographs after drawings by Möllhausen, a trained artist who came to the U.S. in 1849 and had accompanied the Duke of Württemberg on his expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1851 - Wheat Transmississippi 956; Graff 2849; Howes M713; Rader 2418; Sabin 49915; Wagner-Camp 305:2.

Ex-library from the Hill Library, St. Paul, with perforated ownership marking on title pages, a few other internal markings. Rubbed, front joints starting; lacks one plate from Volume 2 (San Francisco Mountains), some light foxing; very good.