Klinckowstrom, Axel Leonhard:

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BREF OM DE FORENTA STATERNA, FORFATTADE UNDER EN RESA TILL AMERIKA, AREN 1818, 1819, 1820.... Text volumes only of the first edition of this highly important and very rare United States view book. "One of the European artists to whom we owe a debt of gratitude for their skillful rendering of scenes in the young American republic is Baron Axel Leonhard Klinckowstrom. A Swedish aristocrat, Klinckowstrom spent three years in the United States (1818-20) as an official emissary of his country, traveling widely and taking a lively interest in all he saw" - Deak. This interest is made manifest in the present work, in the detailed and highly informative text.

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