Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 321

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MISSISSIPPI RIVER.) Beltrami, Giacomo Constantino. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River. 3 folding maps and plans, 4 plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, remnants of detached backstrips preserved with original paper labels; Mississippi map detached and trimmed just within neatline; unopened; embossed library stamps on several leaves including some plates, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, 1951 owner's inscription on front free endpapers. With errata slip tipped in. London, 1828

Additional Details

first edition in english. The second volume describes Beltrami's travels up and down the Mississippi. Field 111; Howes B338 ("aa"); Sabin 4605; Wagner-Camp 26a:2.