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Klinckowström, Axel Leonhard, Friherre, 1775-1837 Atlas til Freherre Klinkowströms Bref Om De Forenta Staterna [In Swedish]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03799.01 Author/Creator: Klinckowström, Axel Leonhard, Friherre, 1775-1837 Place Written: Stockholm, Sweden Type: Print Date: 1824 Pagination: 15 plates Height: 44.2 cm, Width: 56 cm Order a Copy

The prints of various sizes are stitched in original blue paper wrapper. Includes lithographs of the White House, cut-away views of Fulton's steamboat the "Chancellor Livingston," and six aquatint views of Philadelphia and New York's Broadway. There is one view of a bucolic Hoboken, New Jersey. Includes two maps of the east coast of the United States.

Klinckowström, Axel Leonhard, 1775-1837

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