Lot 215
B. Möllhausen, Tagebuch einer Reise vom Mississippi nach den Küsten der Südsee. Leipzig 1858. - Without lithos.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
215
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Balduin Möllhausen
Möllhausen, Balduin: Tagebuch einer Reise vom Mississippi nach den Küsten der Südsee. Eingeführt von Alexander von Humboldt. Leipzig: H. Mendelssohn 1858. 30,6 x 23,7 cm. With a title vignette in woodcut, as well as 9 text woodcuts (some full-page) and 1 double-page map (excluding the 13 colour lithographic plates). 6 leaves, XIV pages, 1 leaf, 494 pages, 1 leaf. Original linen binding with decorative spine and gold-stamped title on the cover. Blind-embossed.
(Some wear and tear. Spine restored and reupholstered with original material. Endpapers replaced. Some water stains and age spots. All 13 lithographic plates are missing.)
Sabin 49414. Howes M 713. – First edition of the famous travelogue describing the 1853 journey through the Rocky Mountains to California. The travel writer and novelist Möllhausen (1825–1905) is praised several times by Humboldt in the preface: “His vivid descriptions of wild nature in all its diverse forms, of the uncultivated state of indigenous tribes and of the habits of animal species, serve as a reminder of how, in receptive minds, deep emotions ennoble language. What Balduin Möllhausen experienced during such an eventful life, amidst manifold privations yet compensated by the joys of nature, has not been lost to his intellectual development....” – With a list of subscribers at the beginning.
(Some wear and tear. Spine restored and reupholstered with original material. Endpapers replaced. Some water stains and age spots. All 13 lithographic plates are missing.)
Sabin 49414. Howes M 713. – First edition of the famous travelogue describing the 1853 journey through the Rocky Mountains to California. The travel writer and novelist Möllhausen (1825–1905) is praised several times by Humboldt in the preface: “His vivid descriptions of wild nature in all its diverse forms, of the uncultivated state of indigenous tribes and of the habits of animal species, serve as a reminder of how, in receptive minds, deep emotions ennoble language. What Balduin Möllhausen experienced during such an eventful life, amidst manifold privations yet compensated by the joys of nature, has not been lost to his intellectual development....” – With a list of subscribers at the beginning.