Fort Pierre on the Missouri

by Karl Bodmer

$1,300 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

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 highly evocative landscape which, with an echo of the vast Biblical epics of John Martin, captures the vastness of the frontier prairies: the Fort, one of the largest settlements of the American Fur

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