Lot 216
B. Möllhausen, Wanderungen durch die Prairien und Wüsten des westlichen Nordamerika. 2. Ed. Leipzig 1860.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
216
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Balduin Möllhausen
Möllhausen, Balduin: Wanderungen durch die Prairien und Wüsten des westlichen Nordamerika vom Mississippi nach den Küsten der Südsee im Gefolge der von der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten unter Lieutnant Whipple ausgesandten Expedition. Eingeführt von Alexander von Humboldt. Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn 1860. 21 x 13,3 cm. With a colour map, folded several times. XVI pp., 492 pp. Brown half-linen with marbled endpapers. With a gold-embossed title on the spine.
(Edges show minimal wear. Brown spots.)
Second edition. 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 ....”
(Edges show minimal wear. Brown spots.)
Second edition. 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 ....”