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Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905 Diary of a journey from the Mississippi to the coasts of the Pacific with a United States government expedition

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04156 Author/Creator: Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905 Place Written: London, England Type: Header Record Date: 1858 Pagination: 2 v. : 19 plates Height: 22 cm, Width: 15 cm Order a Copy

Introduction by Alexander von Humboldt. Published by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. First English edition. Inscribed to Master R. Dymoke as "2nd Prise for School work. Woodbourne House. Christmas 1861." Describes western territories and Indians while accompanying Lieutenant Whipple's Expedition. With nineteen plates (seven chromolithographs) and a folding map.

Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905

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