Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 328

Price Realized: $ 2,000
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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(TRAVEL.) Montulé, Edouard de. Recueil des Cartes et des Vues du Voyage en Amérique en Italie en Sicile et en Egypte. 2 folding maps, 57 lithographed plates only; offered without the two text volumes. Oblong folio, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked; moderate to heavy foxing. Paris, 1821
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first edition. Illustrations of the author's trip to New York, Philadelphia, the West Indies, New Orleans, the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Niagara Falls, and more. Montulé went up the Mississippi in the Vesuvius, which was just the third steamboat to make the voyage. Only two other copies of this plate book have been seen at an American auction since 1972. Howes M750 ("b"); Sabin 50229.