May 29 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2706 -
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Sale 2706 - Lot 288

Estimate: $ 400,000 - $ 500,000
(NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOGRAPHY AND WESTERN TRAVEL.) Karl Bodmer; and Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied. Travels in the Interior of North America. A unique unbound set - engraved meteorological chart, 81 hand-colored aquatint and engraved plates captioned in German, English, and French, engraved folding map. 4 volumes. Two quarto text volumes in German, half calf to style, 13x11 inches, xvi, 653, [1]; xii, [2], 687, [1] pages; oblong portfolio atlas containing 48 Tableau plates, contemporary calf-backed moire cloth boards with gilt title blazon to upper cover, 17x24 inches; oblong portfolio atlas containing 33 Vignette plates, half calf to style, 13x19 inches. Illustrations fully hand-colored, touched with gum arabic, and all bearing the artist's blindstamp at lower imprint. Paris, Coblenz and London, 1839-1841
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