Description:
Möllhausen, Balduin (1825-1905) Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858.
Volume one only of two, first English edition of Möllhausen's Tagebuch; with frontispiece, folding map, and five full page illustrations, not collated, bound in full calf, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
[Together with] Gabriel Franchere's Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, New York: Redfield, 1854, octavo, with frontispiece, publisher's cloth, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (2)
Estimate $600-800
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