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MOLLHAUSEN, Heinrich Baldwin.
Tagebuch einer Reise vom Mississippi nach den Küste der Südsee.
Möllhausen, a Berlin-born artist, first visited the American frontier in 1847-1852. Back in Germany he befriended Alexander von Humboldt, then returned to the U.S. and secured the post of artist and topographer with Lt. A.W. Whipple's Pacific Railroad expedition, scouting possible transcontinental railroad routes at the 35th parallel. Departing Fort Smith on the Arkansas, the Whipple expedition crossed Texas and northern New Mexico and Arizona, arriving at Los Angeles some nine months later. Möllhausen's fine lithographs constitute an important pictorial record of this expedition and the Pueblo Indians and other tribes encountered. His account features interesting ethnographical and anecdotal details not present in the official survey reports.
- Published
- Leipzig: 1858.
- References
- Howes M713; Abbey Travel II 661; Wagner-Camp 305:1; Graff 2851; Sabin 49914; Bobins 818; Streeter Sale 3135; Wheat Transmissisippi 955; Taft Artists & Illustrators of the Old West, pp.22-35.
- Plates
- 13 + 1
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Leipzig: 1858.
- Ref
- 5450
[Journal of a Voyage from the Mississippi to the South Pacific Coast.] Quarto, 16 lithographed plates (7 in colour, 6 tinted, and 3 in black and white). Half-title, frontispiece. Contemporary ownership signature on front free end paper. Clean overall. Original black gilt-stamped cloth, re-backed with original back strip laid down. This book describes the experiences of Mollhausen, a most important and notable German artist and topographer, with the Pacific Railroad survey which investigated a potential route along the 35th parallel in 1853. SCARCE. The work is notable for its plates of the Pueblo Indians and the author's account of them. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Wa-ki-ta-mo-ne und sein Jagdtrupp. 2. Sandstein-Gebilde in der Prairie nordwestl. von Texas. 3. Lager der Kiowa Indianer. 4. Häuptlinge vom Stamme der Ottoe Indianer. 5. Sandsteif-bildung bei Pueblo de Santo Domingo. Neu-Mexico. 6. Kirche in der Pueblo de Santo Domingo. Neu-Mexico. 7. Zuni. Neu-Mexico. 8. Der versteinerte Wald im Thale des Rio Seco (Neu-Mexico.) 9. San Francisco Mountains. (Ausgebrannte Vulkane.) Neu-Mexico. 10. Cereus giganteus Engelmann. 11. Mohave Indianer. Thal des Rio Colorado des Westens. 12. Wohnung der Eingeborenen am Rio Colorado des Westens. 13. Wellingtonia gigantea - Lindley. 14. [Map] Karte zu Balduin Mollhausen's Reise vom Mississippi nach der Küste der Südsee im Jahre 1853-54.
