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MÖLLHAUSEN, Balduin. Tagebuch einer Reise vom Mis

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Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1858. 4to (305 x 240 mm). Engraved folding map, 7 chromolithographed plates, 6 tinted lithographed plates, 3 black-and-white plates and woodcut illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, spine pictorially stamped in gilt. Condition: moderate to heavy foxing; rebacked retaining the original backstrip and recased, endpapers renewed. first edition of a southwestern classic. Mollhausen served as the artist of the 1853 Pacific Railroad Survey expedition led by Lt. A. W. Whipple along the 35th parallel through New Mexico and Arizona. "Mollhausen's account is regarded as a more interesting description of the Whipple Expedition than that published in the official Survey Report" (Wagner-Camp). However, the work is best remembered for its beautiful plates, particularly the mounted chromolithographs on card depicting Native Americans and scenery of the Southwest. Graff 2852; Howes M713; Sabin 49914; Siebert Sale 876; Streeter Sale 3135; Wagner-Camp 305:1; Wheat, MTW 955.

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