Illustrated Notes of an Expedition Through Mexico and California (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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When it is considered that the work was published in 1852, and that many books a hundred years older can readily be had, such scarcity is phenomenal, and ranks this very interesting and valuable work very high among our rarities.

I can only account for it by the fact that probably only a small edition was printed (it was Part I of an intended series, but Part II never appeared) and that in paper covers, so it was easily injured or destroyed. It was issued in two styles - with plain, and with colored plates (i have never seen one with them plain) and the illustrations were done by N agel Weingartner, the noted New York lithographers, who also made the plates for Audubon's Quadrupeds. Their workmanship was of the best, as witness the beautiful plates in that work.

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