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Das illustrirte Mississippithal : dargestellt in 80 nach der Natur aufgenommenen Ansichten vom Wasserfalle zu St. Anthony an bis zum Golf von Mexico ... / von H. Lewis ; nebst einer historischen und geographischen Beschreibung der den Fluss begränzenden Länder, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die verschiedenen den obern Mississippi bewohnenden Indianerstämme (Deutsch und Englisch) von George B. Douglas.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection Folio GC85 L5864 858i
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Henry, 1819-1904.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley.
- Indians of North America.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Mississippi River--Description and travel.
- Mississippi River.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor) (Dechert Collection copy)
- Scott, William H., Jr. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Savage, J. H. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 431 pages, 79 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Düsseldorf : Arnz & Co., [1857]
- Notes:
- Originally issued in parts (fascicles); no. 1-3, 1854, no. 4-6, 1855, "Nach dem englischen Original-Text deutsch bearbeitet, von George B. Douglas"; no. 7-20. "(Deutsch und englisch.) Von George B. Douglas", Düsseldorf : Elkan, Bäumer & Co., 1857.
- "Ausgeführt im lithographischen Institut von Arnz & Comp. in Düsseldorf."
- In the "Messkatalog" or "Bibliographisches Jahrbuch" of Avenarius, 1854-1855, no I-II, III, and IV-VI are entered with the note "Ist auch mit englischem Text zu gleichem Preise zu haben"; no copy with English text has been located.
- The engraved title (frontispiece) reads, "Der Mississippi. Düsseldorf, Verlag des Lithogr. instituts von Arnz & co."
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to William H. Scott, Jr., from J.H. Savage on first blank leaf at beginning of volume.
- Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has laid in offprint of: Heilbron, Bertha L., "Lewis' 'Mississippithal' in English," Minnesota History 32 (1951) 3:212-213.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 40807
- Howes L-312
- Graff, 2474
- Streeter Coll. III, 1547
- OCLC:
- 1670313
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