Von Wunderland zu Wunderland. Landschafts- und Lebensbilder aus den Staaten und Territorien der Union.

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2 volumes bound in one, folio (17 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.; 451 x 32.4 cm). 50 collotype plates tipped to grey-green card, printed brown borders and captions on mounts, alternating with texts in German by H.W. Longfellow, Bret Harte, Cronau, and others; tiny chip to lower left corner of pl. 1 in first work; slight fading to margins of mounts and light toning to text margins. Publisher's polychrome red cloth, gilt-stamped foliate border with a frame of alternating stars and stripes, central panel lettered gilt with stars and stripes on a shield surmounted by an eagle on upper cover, lower cover blocked in blind, patterned and textured gilt guards, spine decoratively stamped in black ink, edges gilt; hinges slightly shaken, joints rubbed, small tears to spine ends, corners bumped, small discolored spot on upper joint. (64V9C) Second edition. Cronau was dispatched in 1881 to America as a correspondent for the German newspaper, "Die Gartenlaube." He returned articles on New York, Baltimore and Washington, and then journeyed to Minneapolis where he traveled down the Mississippi River to Cairo, Illinois. He visited the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Dakota territory where he met Sitting Bull and other Native American leaders. He continued to Yellowstone Park, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and San Francisco. In the winter of 1881-1882, Cronau explored Florida and Louisiana, and then in the summer went back west to Oregon and on to Texas. In all, he wrote twelve articles for "Die Gartenlaube." He intended to continue on to South America but poor health forced him to return to Germany in late 1882. The plates center mainly on the West and life therein. They include portraits of Indian chiefs-most notably Sitting Bull-scenes of Dakota and Yankton Indians in Minnesota, Idaho gold miners, a hold-up, prairies, San Francisco (a street in the Chinese quarter and the interior of a Chinese restaurant), Yellowstone, Mount Hood, the "Garden of the Gods" with Pike's Peak in the background, and an extraordinary view of a carriage traveling through a tunnel carved into a redwood tree, among many others. Also featured are views of the East and the South such as Niagara Falls, the Brooklyn Bridge, Washington's gravesite at Mount Vernon, a Louisiana swamp, and the Florida coast. N° de ref. del artículo 65ERM0078

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