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XÁNTUS, János. Levelei Éjszakamerikából. Budapest: Lauffer és Stolp Kiadó Könyvkereskedése Tulajdona, [1858].
8° (208 x 135 mm). Lithographic frontispiece, 11 lithographic plates, in-text illustrations. (A few plate captions shaved, some light spotting.) Modern half morocco, marbled boards, marbled edges.
FIRST EDITION, consisting of letters Xántus wrote on his journey across North America to California in 1856, including letters written in Nebraska, Fort Laramie, new Orleans, Fort Riley, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A rare Hungarian piece of Western Americana. Graff 4784; Streeter 3066; Wagner-Camp-Becker 316.
[With:]
FARKAS, Sándor Bölöni. Útazás Észak Amerikában. Kolozsvártt: Ifiabb Tilsch János Tulajdona, 1834. 8° (205 x 133 mm). Contemporary cloth-backed boards, marbled edges. FIRST EDITION of this early and important Hungarian account of travel in the United States. (See Abroad in America, the National Portrait Gallery’s catalog for their 1976 exhibition of European travelers in the United States, pp.43-51).
8° (208 x 135 mm). Lithographic frontispiece, 11 lithographic plates, in-text illustrations. (A few plate captions shaved, some light spotting.) Modern half morocco, marbled boards, marbled edges.
FIRST EDITION, consisting of letters Xántus wrote on his journey across North America to California in 1856, including letters written in Nebraska, Fort Laramie, new Orleans, Fort Riley, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A rare Hungarian piece of Western Americana. Graff 4784; Streeter 3066; Wagner-Camp-Becker 316.
[With:]
FARKAS, Sándor Bölöni. Útazás Észak Amerikában. Kolozsvártt: Ifiabb Tilsch János Tulajdona, 1834. 8° (205 x 133 mm). Contemporary cloth-backed boards, marbled edges. FIRST EDITION of this early and important Hungarian account of travel in the United States. (See Abroad in America, the National Portrait Gallery’s catalog for their 1976 exhibition of European travelers in the United States, pp.43-51).