MÖLLHAUSEN, Balduin (1825-1905). Reisen in die Felsengebirge Nord-Americas bis zum Hoch-Plateau von Neu-Mexicounternommen als Mitgleid der im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten ausgesandten Colorado-Expedition . Leipzig: Hermann Costenoble, 1861 [1860]. 2 volumes, 8 o (238 x 165 mm). Half-titles, 12 color-tinted wood-engraved plates (showing landscapes, vegetation and Indian inhabitants), a few finished by hand, after original drawings by Möllhausen, folding lithographed map of the expedition's route, engraved facsimiles of letters from von Humboldt. (A few traces of foxing.) Publisher's pale yellow printed wrappers, ENTIRELY UNCUT AND UNOPENED (minor soiling and slight wear to extremities, back wrapper of vol. 1 with tear repaired with glassine tape, front wrapper of vol. 2 detached); brown quarter morocco cloth folding case. Provenance : Frank T. Siebert (his sale Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999, lot 883, acquired from Eberstadt, 1949). FIRST EDITION, in very fine, original condition. An extensive first-hand account of the Ives expedition into Colorado, and a work still not fully translated into English. "In the fall of 1857 Möllhausen accompanied Lt. Joseph C. Ives' expedition on an exploration... of the Colorado river from its mouth in the Gulf of California to the head of navigation. Leaving their boat, members of the expedition attempted their exploration along the Colorado river eastward through the rugged country along the southern side of the Grand Canyon. The expedition was abandoned in the spring of 1858 at Fort Defiance in present eastern Arizona. Möllhausen, with several fellow members of the expedition, continued eastward to Santa Fe, and left that town via the Santa Fe trail for Fort Leavenworth on June 16, 1858" (R. Taft, ed. "Over the Santa Fe Trail Through Kansas in 1858," in Kansas Historical Quarterly , Nov. 1948 [Vol. 16, no. 4], pp. 337-380). Howes M-712; Graff 2850; Sabin 49913; Streeter I:178; Wagner-Camp-Becker 362:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 1032. See lot 299 for Ives' Report upon the Colorado River of the West .
MÖLLHAUSEN, Balduin (1825-1905). Reisen in die Felsengebirge Nord-Americas bis zum Hoch-Plateau von Neu-Mexicounternommen als Mitgleid der im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten ausgesandten Colorado-Expedition . Leipzig: Hermann Costenoble, 1861 [1860]. 2 volumes, 8 o (238 x 165 mm). Half-titles, 12 color-tinted wood-engraved plates (showing landscapes, vegetation and Indian inhabitants), a few finished by hand, after original drawings by Möllhausen, folding lithographed map of the expedition's route, engraved facsimiles of letters from von Humboldt. (A few traces of foxing.) Publisher's pale yellow printed wrappers, ENTIRELY UNCUT AND UNOPENED (minor soiling and slight wear to extremities, back wrapper of vol. 1 with tear repaired with glassine tape, front wrapper of vol. 2 detached); brown quarter morocco cloth folding case. Provenance : Frank T. Siebert (his sale Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999, lot 883, acquired from Eberstadt, 1949). FIRST EDITION, in very fine, original condition. An extensive first-hand account of the Ives expedition into Colorado, and a work still not fully translated into English. "In the fall of 1857 Möllhausen accompanied Lt. Joseph C. Ives' expedition on an exploration... of the Colorado river from its mouth in the Gulf of California to the head of navigation. Leaving their boat, members of the expedition attempted their exploration along the Colorado river eastward through the rugged country along the southern side of the Grand Canyon. The expedition was abandoned in the spring of 1858 at Fort Defiance in present eastern Arizona. Möllhausen, with several fellow members of the expedition, continued eastward to Santa Fe, and left that town via the Santa Fe trail for Fort Leavenworth on June 16, 1858" (R. Taft, ed. "Over the Santa Fe Trail Through Kansas in 1858," in Kansas Historical Quarterly , Nov. 1948 [Vol. 16, no. 4], pp. 337-380). Howes M-712; Graff 2850; Sabin 49913; Streeter I:178; Wagner-Camp-Becker 362:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 1032. See lot 299 for Ives' Report upon the Colorado River of the West .
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