Diary Of A Journey From The Mississippi To The Coasts Of The Pacific With A United States Government Expedition 2 Volumes Mollhausen, Balduin Native Americans,Travel & Exploration

First English edition, xxxii,352 xii pp. Folding map: Map Illustrations Balduin Mollhausen’s Travels From The Mississippi To The Coast Of the Pacific 18 x 43.5 cm. seven chromolithographed plates, four tinted. Half titles. Original reddish cloth with title stamped in gilt on spine, slight wear, all edges gilt, a very nice collectable set about near fine, unusual to find in the original binding in this condition. The best account of Whipple’s expedition to survey a railroad route to the Pacific by the party’s naturalist and artist. The text contains excellent descriptions of Indian life. Goetzmann Army Exploration p. 310 calls this book: “one of the best travel books of the age” and notes that the author earned the well-deserved title of “the German Fenimore Cooper.” One of the classic accounts of the American West, with an introduction by Alexander von Humboldt. Becker Wagner-Camp 305:2. Howes M713. Smith 6908. Streeter Sale 3134. Wheat, Mapping The Transmississippi West IV p. 107 “The map is beautifully drawn and engraved. It extends from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to San Francisco, and from Bent’s Fort to slightly below the line of the Gadsden purchase. Whipple’s (and Mollhausen’s) route is carefully delineated…. It is a highly important and decorative map.” Flake 5448: “Meets traveling Mormon’s; stops at Salt Lake City.” Raines pp. 150-151: “Expedition started from Fort Smith in Arkansas and traversed the Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, and California.”