Xántus János levelei éjszakamerikából.
XANTUS, János. Xántus János levelei éjszakamerikából
Pest: Lauffer És Stolp, 1858
£3500
8vo., Original green paper-covered boards, lettered in black with decorative border to upper board; recent green paper spine; pp. [v], 4-175, [i]; suite of 11 tinted lithographic plates to rear, plus frontis; in-text illustrations; boards darkened and rubbed at edges with a few stains and dirt markings; sporadic foxing, internally; with very minor small crack to inner front gutter; neat ‘Nr 7’ mark in blue ink to title; a couple of corner creases; still a good copy of an important rarity.
First edition, with plates after drawings by the author.
Letters from North America was a text written by a Hungarian freedom fighter and naturalist who had emigrated to the USA in the 1850s. While serving as a member of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers, he penned a series of some 37 letters to his friends and family, each dated and describing the various places he encountered during his expeditions. The locations he visited include New Orleans, the Gulf of Iowa (where a Hungarian community had settled), the Great Plains, Kansas Territory and California, all between December 1st 1852 and July 5th 1857. Xantus reports on the natural history of each location, along with the lives of the Native Americans, and includes short dictionaries of the Commanche and Wichita Indian languages.
Rare indeed, especially in the original boards.
XANTUS, János. Xántus János levelei éjszakamerikából
Pest: Lauffer És Stolp, 1858
£3500
8vo., Original green paper-covered boards, lettered in black with decorative border to upper board; recent green paper spine; pp. [v], 4-175, [i]; suite of 11 tinted lithographic plates to rear, plus frontis; in-text illustrations; boards darkened and rubbed at edges with a few stains and dirt markings; sporadic foxing, internally; with very minor small crack to inner front gutter; neat ‘Nr 7’ mark in blue ink to title; a couple of corner creases; still a good copy of an important rarity.
First edition, with plates after drawings by the author.
Letters from North America was a text written by a Hungarian freedom fighter and naturalist who had emigrated to the USA in the 1850s. While serving as a member of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers, he penned a series of some 37 letters to his friends and family, each dated and describing the various places he encountered during his expeditions. The locations he visited include New Orleans, the Gulf of Iowa (where a Hungarian community had settled), the Great Plains, Kansas Territory and California, all between December 1st 1852 and July 5th 1857. Xantus reports on the natural history of each location, along with the lives of the Native Americans, and includes short dictionaries of the Commanche and Wichita Indian languages.
Rare indeed, especially in the original boards.
XANTUS, János. Xántus János levelei éjszakamerikából
Pest: Lauffer És Stolp, 1858
£3500
8vo., Original green paper-covered boards, lettered in black with decorative border to upper board; recent green paper spine; pp. [v], 4-175, [i]; suite of 11 tinted lithographic plates to rear, plus frontis; in-text illustrations; boards darkened and rubbed at edges with a few stains and dirt markings; sporadic foxing, internally; with very minor small crack to inner front gutter; neat ‘Nr 7’ mark in blue ink to title; a couple of corner creases; still a good copy of an important rarity.
First edition, with plates after drawings by the author.
Letters from North America was a text written by a Hungarian freedom fighter and naturalist who had emigrated to the USA in the 1850s. While serving as a member of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers, he penned a series of some 37 letters to his friends and family, each dated and describing the various places he encountered during his expeditions. The locations he visited include New Orleans, the Gulf of Iowa (where a Hungarian community had settled), the Great Plains, Kansas Territory and California, all between December 1st 1852 and July 5th 1857. Xantus reports on the natural history of each location, along with the lives of the Native Americans, and includes short dictionaries of the Commanche and Wichita Indian languages.
Rare indeed, especially in the original boards.