The Steamer Yellow-Stone on the 19th April 1833

by Karl Bodmer

$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the original copper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from the Leipzig edition are more scarce than, and compare favorably to, the first edition. David C. Hunt, Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier, Imprint/Spring 85, p.18 A fine view of the side-wheeler in the then treacherous waters of the Missouri River: the longest river in the country, it was considered by far the most difficult of all western rivers to navigate. The

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