Diary of a Journey From the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. First Editions. 2 volumes. 352, 397pp. Octavo [23 cm] Publisher's red pebbled cloth with decorative blind stamping to boards and the title gilt on the backstrip. Complete with all plates and woodcuts, including the eleven color lithograph plates and the folding map. All are bright and in nice condition. Very good. With gentle wear to boards and cosmetic splitting to joints of volume two.
Lengthy inscription on the front free endsheet from the author's wife: "Mister Barba, zur Erinnerung an die angenehmen, mit ihm in Berlin verlebten Stunden. Lina Alexandra & Frau Balduin Möllhausen Berlin April 1910" [Mr. Barba, In memory of the pleasant hours spent with him in Berlin. Lina Alexander & Mrs. Balduin Möllhausen Berlin, April 1910]. Item #10929
This important narrative describes Möllhausen's work with the Pacific Railroad Survey under Lieutenant Amiel Whipple, investigating a potential route along the 35th parallel in 1853, which took the expedition across northern New Mexico and Arizona, and through the Mohave. This is the most important work by the artist and topographer and is notable for its plates of the Pueblos and their inhabitants. Eberstadt 120: 152. Graff 2849. Howes M713. Radar 2418. Sabin 49915. Streeter 3134. Wagner/Camp 305:2. Wheat 955.
Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen (1825–1905) was a noted German traveler, artist, and novelist who became one of the most significant chroniclers of the 19th-century American West. He is renowned for his realistic portrayals of frontier life, indigenous cultures, and North American landscapes.
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