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Condición: good. This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. The dust jacket has major wear and tear. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.

Loose Leaf. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. A very good hardcover in a rubbed and chipped dust jacket. No markings.

Condición: FINE. First printing. Previously unpublished letters of this Hungarian immigrant who joined the US Army under an assumed name, a charlatan who managed to alienate most of the people he met, and yet one of the Smithsonian's most successful collectors of natural history specimens in the mid-19th century. From his station at Ft Tejon in California's Tehachapi Mountains, Xantus carried on a lengthy correspondence with Spencer Baird at the Smithsonian. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, notes, index. 255 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.).

Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (United States, Travel) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages; Description: 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 194. Translation of Levelei Ejszakamerikabol. Subjects: Xantus, Janos, 1825-1894. United States --Description and travel 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Book may have light/sometimes moderate wear and tear due to storage and age. May have writing or old price on inside cover. May be price clipped. Spine is intact, in good condition, clean. Pages are intact, in good condition, clean. None of the defects detract from the readability! From a non-smoking environment. Ask for pictures!

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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages; Description: 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 194. Translation of Levelei Ejszakamerikabol. Subjects: Xantus, Janos, 1825-1894. United States --Description and travel 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. WESTERN HIST-This regular size hard cover is FINE. No DJ. One of 500cc. blue w/silver lettering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0.

xxvi, 255p., b/w illus., dj. Letters of this Hungarian immigrant, who became one of the Simthsonian' most successful collectors of natural history specimens in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Levelei Ã?szakamerikàbÃ3l presents a collection of letters written by Jànos Xàntus during his travels in North America. Offering a unique perspective from a Hungarian author in the 19th century, these letters provide vivid descriptions of the American landscape, society, and culture as experienced by a keen observer. Xàntus's writings offer valuable insights into the historical context of the time and reveal his personal journey and impressions of a rapidly changing nation.Readers interested in travel writing, American history, or the perspective of foreign travelers will find this collection to be a captivating and informative read. These letters shed light on the cross-cultural encounters of the era and showcase the enduring appeal of travel narratives as a window into the past.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Levelei Ã?szakamerikàbÃ3l presents a collection of letters written by Jànos Xàntus during his travels in North America. Offering a unique perspective from a Hungarian author in the 19th century, these letters provide vivid descriptions of the American landscape, society, and culture as experienced by a keen observer. Xàntus's writings offer valuable insights into the historical context of the time and reveal his personal journey and impressions of a rapidly changing nation.Readers interested in travel writing, American history, or the perspective of foreign travelers will find this collection to be a captivating and informative read. These letters shed light on the cross-cultural encounters of the era and showcase the enduring appeal of travel narratives as a window into the past.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hardcover. Condición: Good to very good condition. First edition. Large Octavo. [10] 191 [3]pp. 7 engravings, 1 folding map. Original green quarter cloth over tan boards with engraving and black lettering in decorative frame of cover, protected by modern mylar. Illustrated with eight wood engravings on plates, including tinted frontispiece and four additional in color, three sepia-toned, and one lithographed folding map of California, eight in-text engravings, and a chart from the register of the meteorological Pavilion, erected in Uvas Canyon from June 1857 to June 1858. The cover features a wine and lemonade seller on a mule in Los Angeles. The eight plates were drawn by Xantus in 1858, and printed by Njom Haske and Co. in 1859. 1. San Fernando. Southern California. (Frontispiece). 2. Indian Blacksmith. San Fernando. 3. Indian Weaving room. San Fernando. 4. Tejon Indian women grinding seafood. 5. On top of the Sierra Nevada. 6. La Joya. On the California peninsula. 7. Our overnight stay. Between Timpa and Todos Santos. 8. San Marco. On the California Peninsula. The 1858 California folding map, measuring 14 1/8 x 13 1/8," shows California from San Francisco to San Diego, Baja California, Tejon territory, the Mojave desert , the Apache territory, and parts of today's Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico on a scale of 1:6,000,000 is edited and drawn after the latest well heads. John Xantus was a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Boston Athenaeum. This firsthand account of Southern California in the mid 19th covers lives of the native Indians, the California economy and natural history. János, an Hungarian ex-patriot, serving with the US Army when undertaking this journey to Los Angeles, San Fernando, San Bernardino, Mojave, Baja California, and encountering the native Tejon Indian tribes in the San Joaquin valley. The report includes a listing of the Tejon numerals and a vocabulary of their language. The book triggered some controversy due to its illustrations, said to be appropriated with slight alterations from R. H. Kern in an earlier report of a U.S. Army topographical mission by Lorenzo Sitgreaves: "The Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers." Binding with some wear along edges, light water-staining on front cover and rubbed. Stamped "Lajos Pokorny," pharmacist in Losonc, on front free endpaper. Block with occasional light imperfections, few thumbprints in lower foredge corners, and minor green watercolor spot in margin of page 179. From the Smithsonian Institution Archives: "János Xántus (1825-1894) was a Hungarian exile and zoologist who collected specimens in America and Asia. He was born in Csokonya, Hungary, on October 5, 1825. He initially studied law, but joined the Hungarian Army after Hungary attempted to break from Austria. Xántus was captured and imprisoned, managing to escape to Saxony a year later. He came to the United States in 1851 and began traveling across the United States working in a variety of jobs to earn a living. Xántus enlisted in the US Army in 1855. During his time in the service he began collecting natural history specimens. With the encouragement of Army Medical staff member, he began collecting for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He began a correspondence with Spencer F. Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in 1857. With Baird's encouragement, Xántus collected extensively in California during the mid-1850's for the US National Museum, while he was stationed at Fort Tejon, California, as a hospital steward. Upon leaving Fort Tejon he was granted a discharge and explored Cape San Lucas, again collecting for the Baird. He eventually returned to Hungary in 1864. Xantus served as the Director of the Zoological Garden of Budapest and as Curator of Ethnography at the Hungarian National Museum. He passed away in Budapest in 1894".

Hardcover. Condición: VG. First edition of these Letters from North America written by a Hungarian freedom fighter in exile and naturalist. The unauthorized first edition of letters by J nus or John X ntus (1825-1894) an exile. 12 tinted lithograph plates. 175, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; moderate foxing, early pencil notes; later number tag on rear free endpaper. First edition of these Letters from North America written by a Hungarian freedom fighter in exile and naturalist. The unauthorized first edition of letters by J nus or John X ntus (1825-1894) an exile from Hungary who first settled in a Hungarian colony in Iowa, served in the Army in Kansas, and later found himself employed as a scientist in Southern California and Baja California in the late 1850s, collecting natural history specimens for what became the Smithsonian Institution. This book includes 37 letters written from 1852 to 1857, not intended for publication. Four letters are dated from San Francisco and Los Angeles, in addition to letters from his travels across the continent earlier in the decade, not included in the later authorized edition, from New Orleans, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. A vocabulary of the Comanche and Wichita languages appears on pages 118-122. The book was edited by Istv n Pr post, and some of the content is repurposed from Marcy's official report of the Red River. The illustrations are mostly of Plains Indians and scenery, closing with views of Los Angeles; San Gabriel Mission; and New York's Union Square. The plates are based upon his drawings. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: VG. Hungarian Naturalist in the West With Excellent Tinted Lithographs and a Folding Map J nos X ntus, the author of this beautifully illustrated account of 19th century California, was a pioneering Hungarian naturalist and. Octavo. Original pictorial boards, expertly and tastefully rebacked with new linen cloth spine, original spine backstrip laid down over the new spine. Some moderate edge rubbing to binding. Endpapers renewed. Occasional minor fox mark (mostly marginal and mostly to text leaves, the plates exhibiting very minor, almost negligible, marginal foxing). Neat 19th century owner's initial purple ink stamp on titlepage and on verso of plates and map. [10],191, [3, ads] pages. Title page vignette and numerous woodcuts in the text. 8 tinted lithograph plates (including frontispiece) and folding map (12 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches). Complete. Hungarian Naturalist in the West With Excellent Tinted Lithographs and a Folding Map J nos X ntus, the author of this beautifully illustrated account of 19th century California, was a pioneering Hungarian naturalist and ornithologist who traveled extensively in the American West. Presented in a series of letters, the present volume purports to describe Alta and Baja California, incorporating interesting descriptions of California's natural history, geology and Native American tribes. Some of these descriptions are now regarded as fanciful or plagiarized from other sources. Places described include Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, San Fernando Valley, the Sierra Nevada mountains, Mojave, and Fort Tejon. The author also describes several places in Baja California, including La Paz and Loreto. Pages 58-60 contain a Tejon Indian language vocabulary. The excellent lithograph plates, also either fanciful or taken from other earlier publications, depict a range of scenes: Mission San Fernando, Indians working in a blacksmith shop at the mission, an Indian woman working a loom, Indians at Tejon, a vista of the Sierra Nevada, a view of a large terraced native building at La Joya. Several of these views are actually derived from James W. Abert's classic illustrated report of the Southwest (1848), compare, for instance, Abert's Pueblo de Santo Domingo and Acoma views. The numerous in text wood engravings also deserve mention: A Silla. Traveling a silla in California, showing Californios being carried in specially modified chairs on the backs of Native Americans. Santa Clara waterfall. Los Angeles native on a burro (repeated on the front cover). Los Angeles native man and woman. Cave art petroglyphs at Tejon a pearl-laden shell from La Paz The nice folding lithograph map shows California and Baja California, from San Francisco south to Cabo San Lucas. Wheat points out some curious aspects of this map: it shows Santa Cruz where San Jose should be, with San Jose a few miles to the north. Napa is located at the site of Berkeley, with Sonoma due east of Stockton, and Mariposa due east from there, near the Kern River. An earlier publication by X ntus appeared in 1858, but that work was apparently not authorized by the author. The earlier volume, titled Levelei Ejszakamerikabol. described X ntus's overland travels in the western United States. Howes called the earlier 1858 publication, which was edited by a purportedly "incompetent" Istvan Prepost, an unauthorized edition of Xantus' letters. X ntus was a participant in the unsuccessful Hungarian Revolution of 1848, after which he came to America as a refugee in 1851. In the mid-1850s he traveled across the U.S. to California. As a member of the U.S. Army's Topographical Corps railroad survey in Southern California, at Los Angeles and Fort T jon from 1857 to 1859, he was able to collect s. Book.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 6/8 inches). 3-page publisher's advertisement at end. 8 chromolithographs, folding lithograph map ".Kalifornia" (some spotting). Original drab pictorial boards (rebacked preserving the original spine, extremities scuffed). Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription of Vieczay Hider on the front cover. First authorized edition, preceded by the unauthorized edition of 1858. Xantus states that letters edited by Istvan Prepost which appeared in 1858 were not intended for publication and were published as a result of a misunderstanding. Janos was a Hungarian naturalist, a Hungarian Freedom Fighter, and political refugee who immigrated to the United States in the 1850s and served as a member of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers. "An account of travels in southern California written from an ethnological, historical and scientific point of view, including a description of Los Angeles. Pages 37-63 relate to the Tejon Indians in the San Joaquin valley, including a list of their numerals and a vocabulary of the language. The excellent tinted lithographs are said to be from drawings by the author, but several appear to be copied with but slight alterations from those of R. H. Kern [1821-1853] in Sitgreave's "Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers" (Sabin). Graff 4785; Howes X2; Sabin 35764 & 105714. Streeter 2860: "First authorized edition of the Hungarian scientist's letters on California, where he had accompanied a railroad survey. Some of his material is said to have been extracted from the Abert and Emory reports"; Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 237. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

In original paper. Condición: Very good condition. In original paper. Two illustrated articles by Janos Xantus. In the first one he describes his journey from Kingston to Panama and also writes about situation of railroads in America. In the second articale he writes about Sarawak in Malaysia.

Hungarian Janos Xantus was one of the pioneering ornithologists of California. The present book is the second of two Hungarian publications by Xantus, providing an account of his travels in California and Baja. The other volume, LEVELEI EJSZAKAMERIKABOL., was also published in Budapest (in 1858) and describes his travels throughout the United States. Howes calls that volume, edited by the "incompetent" Istvan Prepost, an "unauthorized" edition of Xantus' letters describing his travels in North America. The letters in this volume focus on California, Baja and Alta, and provide descriptions of California's geology and climate, native Indians, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Fernando, Mojave, Fort Tejon, and several places in Baja, including La Paz and Loreto. The plates show Mission San Fernando, Indians working in a blacksmith shop at the mission, a female Indian working a loom, Indians at Tejon, a vista of the Sierra Nevada, a view of a large terraced building at La Jolla, and more. The map shows California from San Francisco south to the tip of Baja. Involved in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Xantus came to the U.S. at the end of 1851 as a political refugee and worked as a topographer on the Pacific Railroad Survey, then as a member of the U.S. Coast Survey. He was stationed in California during the coastal survey, and while there made valuable collections of birds for the Smithsonian Institution, including many new species, some of which were named after him. Later he was attached to the U.S. Navy and commanded an expedition to make meteorological observations in certain parts of the Pacific Ocean. During the latter service, which concluded in 1861, he discovered eighty-nine islands and sand banks. He was appointed U.S. consul at Manzanillo, Mexico, and led a scientific research party into the Sierra Madre before permanently returning to his native Hungary in 1864. Not in Pilling or Ayer, despite the linguistic content. The Streeter copy sold for $225 to unknown bidders and is now in a private collection in California. HOWES X2, "aa." GRAFF 4785. COWAN, p.697. SABIN 105714. HILL 1921. ROCQ 16433. BARRETT 2681. WHEAT, GOLD RUSH 237. STREETER SALE 2860. WAGNER-CAMP 316 (note). DAB XX, pp.589-90. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, sympathetically rebacked in later cloth, spine gilt. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed, edges and corners worn. Barany family bookplate on front pastedown and their ink stamp on titlepage. A bit of light, scattered foxing. Very good.

XANTUS, Janos. Utazas Kalifornia deli Reszeiben. Budapest: Kiadjak Lauffer es Stolp, 1860. 1st ed. [x],192pp. Chromolithograph frontis., illus., seven chromolithograph plates, folding map. Orig. pictorial boards. Spine mostly abraded. Boards rubbed, wear to edges and corners, else a very good copy in a custom cloth clamshell box. HOWES X-2. Graff 4785. Wheat, California Gold Rush, 237. The authorized edition of this Hungarian work on California, following the unreliable 1858 edition. "First authorized edition of the Hungarian scientist's letters on California, where he had accompanied a railroad survey. Some of his material is said to have been extracted from the Abert and Emory reports"--Streeter 2860.

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