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Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen. Reisen in die Felsengebirge Nord-Amerikas bis zum Hoch-Plateau von Neu-Mexico, ... (Total: 2 Items)
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Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen. Reisen in die Felsengebirge Nord-Amerikas bis zum Hoch-Plateau von Neu-Mexico, unternommen als Mitglied der im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten ausgesandten Colorado-Expedition...Mit 12 vom Verfasser nach der Natur aufgenommenen Landschaften und Abbildungen von Indianer-Stämmen, Thier- und Pflanzen-Bildern in Farbendruck, nebst 1 Karte. Eingeführt durch zwei Briefe Alexander von Humboldt's in facsimile. Leipzig: [Printed by V. Ebelman, Leipzig for] Hermann Costenoble, 1861.FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo. I: [i-vii] viii-xvi, [1] 2-455 [1] pages; II: [i-v] vi-ix [1], [1] 2-406 pages. With folding engraved map, and fourteen chromolithographed plates. Contemporary German dark brown half cloth and black pebble-grained cloth, spines gilt-lettered.
Although bibliographical tradition states that the book has 13 plates, it in fact has 14 because the illustration of Humboldt's letter is two separate lithographs on the recto and verso of a single sheet. Möllhausen (1825-1905) accompanied Joseph Christmas Ives' 1857-1858 expedition exploring the Colorado River from its mouth at the Gulf of California. The author visited the United States several times and three times took part in exploring expeditions to the West. His enormous number of books, including many novels, have earned him the sobriquet "The German [Fenimore] Cooper." After he returned to Germany from this expedition, he never visited the U.S. again.
Although this work is not an official report of the expedition itself, it is a learned, urbane, recounting of events, Native Americans, landscape features, plants, and animals. It also provides interesting descriptions of various settlements, such as Los Angeles. Möllhausen served as the expedition's official artist, and he contributed illustrations for Ives' official report. In addition to his descriptions of the headwaters of the Colorado, Möllhausen also described and illustrated the Grand Canyon, where the expedition spent some weeks exploring. This work has never been fully translated into English although illustrations from it are frequently reproduced. The delicately tinted plates of scenery and Native Americans, which A. Edelmann created from Möllhausen's original drawings, include several scenes from the Ives expedition not depicted elsewhere. Möllhausen witnessed and documented the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the Santa Fe Trail from an artist's perspective, with an eye for detail and drama.
Condition: Bottom edges of boards of both volumes a little shelfworn. Some offsetting to the pastedowns and endpapers in both volumes. Some foxing throughout both volumes, staining to frontispiece verso in Vol. 2.
References: Howes M-712; Rader 2419; Wagner-Camp 362:1.
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2023 December 2 The Ted Lusher Texas History Collection, Part One Signature® Auction #6281 (go to Auction Home page)
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