Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 320

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(TRAVEL.) Montulé, Edouard de. Voyage en Amérique, en Italie, en Sicile et en Egypte and Recueil des Cartes et des Vues du Voyage en Amérique. 2 folding maps, 57 lithographed plates. 3 volumes including atlas. 8vo and oblong folio, contemporary boards, moderate wear, rebacked with cloth, the atlas with original printed cover label; moderate foxing to plates. With half-titles. Paris, 1821
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first edition. Describes the author's trip to New York, Philadelphia, the West Indies, New Orleans, Louisville, and Niagara Falls. Most notably, Montulé went up the Mississippi in the Vesuvius, which was just the third steamboat to make the voyage. The text volumes are not uncommon, but only one other copy of the atlas has been seen at an American auction since 1972. Clark, Old South II:47 ("intimate and interesting narrative"); Howes M750 ("b"); Monaghan, French Travellers 1085; Sabin 50229.