Frederick A. Wislizenus: Denkschrift ueber eine Reise nach Nord-Mexico

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Frederick A. Wislizenus : Denkschrift ueber eine Reise nach Nord-Mexico

Friedrich Bieweg Und Sohn, Braunschweig, 1850

contemporary ¼ calf with cloth boards, flat spine, 3 densely gilt compartments of gilt tooled bands, gilt lettering on two, all edges marbled. Ex-libris on paste down end paper, Lacks two maps otherwise a very good example of this important book., 8vo, P. half-title, blank, title, blank, v-viii, 1-211, 1 folding chart.

Dr. Wislizenus emigrated to the United States in 1835 from Switzerland. “In 1839 he joined a fur-trading party and made an expedition up the Oregon Trail and over the Rocky Mountains to Idaho. His book on this subject is now considered a classic of the late trapper period. . .Wislizenus’s Memoire was presented to the Senate by Thomas Hart Benton and was praised for its scientific observations by Alexandre von Humboldt.†(Hill), Howes 597; Hill 1905. Wheat Transmississippi 572,573

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