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Lot 14
American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
CARVALHO, Solomon Nunes (1815-1897). Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857.
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati

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$300 - 400
Lot Description
American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
CARVALHO, Solomon Nunes (1815-1897). Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857.

8vo. Wood-engraved frontispiece. (Some spotting and staining to frontispiece and title-page.) Original blind-stamped brown cloth.

SECOND EDITION, containing a frontispiece depicting Fremont not present in the 1856 first edition and removes the dedication (pp.v-vi), otherwise it collates the same. Carvalho was the artist on Fremont's 1853 Rocky Mountain Expedition in search of a railroad route to the West. He was famous for taking daguerreotypes of the Journey that survived his return to New York and were used to create engravings for accounts of the expedition. Unfortunately, nearly all the originals were lost in a warehouse fire. Cowan p.108; Flake 1224n; Graff 619; Howes C213; Sabin 11180; Smith 1547; Wagner-Camp 373:2.


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