Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 307

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(TRAVEL.) Cronau, Rudolf. Von Wunderland zu Wunderland: Landschafts und Lebensbilder aus den Staaten und Territorien der Union . . . Neue Folge. 25 collotype plates tipped to captioned leaves as issued. [1], 25, [1] text leaves. Volume II of 2 only. Large folio, publisher's gilt and colored pictorial cloth, minor wear; minor edge wear to a few leaves. In a modern illustrated slipcase by Robert Wang. Leipzig, 1887

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Cronau was an artist who travelled widely in America before publishing these scenes. Each plate is accompanied by a page of description or verse in German. Illustrations include scenes of Dakota and Yankton Indians in Minnesota; a ranch on the Rio Brazos; Idaho gold miners; a carriage driving through a tree in the Sierra Nevadas; the Florida coast; an Albuquerque street scene; Pike's Peak; and much more.