Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 152

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(GERMAN AMERICANA.) Bernhard, Karl, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Reise . . . durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826. 9 maps, 4 plates, numerous illustrations. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary plain cloth, sunned, partial paper spine label; some plates moderately toned, a bit of marginal dampstaining on a few leaves, but generally quite bright and clean; uncut. With 4 pages of undated publisher's ads. Weimar, 1828
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first edition. The author traveled throughout the South and the Midwest, including the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and up the Mississippi to St. Louis, then back east to New York, Boston, and Quebec. Nine festive weeks in New Orleans were a highlight. He also visited Jefferson at Monticello and Robert Owen at New Harmony. The maps include a large folding map of virtually the entire U.S. (with Texas identified) and maps of New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Ohio and others. Howes B385; Clark III:14; Graff 279; Sabin 4953.