Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique du Nord, exécuté pendant les ...
LC Control No.: |
02005383
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Type of Material: | Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.) |
Personal Name: | Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867. |
Uniform Title: | Reise in das innere Nord America. French |
Main Title: |
Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique du Nord, exécuté pendant les années 1832, 1833 et 1834,
par le prince Maximilien de Wied-Neuwied. Ouvrage accompagné d'un atlas de 80 planches environ, format demi-colombier, dessinées sur les lieux par M. Charles Bodmer ...
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Published/Created: |
Paris,
A. Bertrand,
1840-1843.
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Related Names: |
Bodmer, Karl,
1809-1893,
ill.
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Description: |
3 v.
illus., plates, fold. map, plan.
24 cm. and
atlas (62 x 46 cm.)
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Notes: |
Tr. from the German.
The atlas comprises 81 plates, in part colored, numbered 1-48 and I-XXXIII, the latter set being called "vignettes." The most remarkable are the portraits, in rich colors and from life, of American Indians. LC copy bound in half red leather over marbled paper boards. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Atlas disbound, illustrations separately mounted in 6 cases. Vignettes X, XX, XXII, XXIV, XXVII and plates 3, 7-8, 12-14, 17, 22, 24, 27-28, 32-33, 45-46 hand colored. Accompanied by t.p. for "Sixième livraison." DLC |
Additional Formats: |
Plates also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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Subjects: |
United States--Description and travel. Indians of North America. Indians of North America--Languages. Natural history--United States. |
LC Classification: |
E165
.W66
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LC Copy: |
E165
.W66 Copy 2
Copy 2. Imperfect: folded map in v. 3 and atlas wanting. Maroon library buckram. Illustrations bound at end of each volume of text. Vol. 1 includes "Catalogue de la librairie de B.L. Garnier" (52 p.).
E165 .W66 Copy 3 Copy 3. Quarter green leather over green mottled paper boards. Illustrations bound at end of each volume of text. Folded map in v. 3 is partly hand colored and slightly torn. Atlas bound in half dark green leather over dark blue cloth boards. All vignettes and plates hand colored. Atlas includes partly hand colored duplicate copy of folded map in v. 3 of text. Purchase, Sept. 26, 1991 (DLC #0209320, 0209321, 0209327). |
Geographic Area Code: |
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Links: |
Plates only (copy 3):
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/gen.0002
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