Die neue Welt : Skizzen von Land und Leuten der Nordamerikanischen Freistaaten / von Adolph Görling ; mit vielen Stahlstichen

Author: Görling, Adolph, 1821-1877
Published: Leipzig : Verlag der Englischen Kunstanstalt von A.H. Payne, 1848.
Physical Description: 614, vii, 3 unnumbered pages, 67 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (steel engraving) ; 19 cm
Additional Creators: Payne, A. H. (Albert Henry), 1812-1902 and Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854

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Includes a comprehensive historical account of the Ohio Zoarites, along with descriptions of many towns, etc. in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.
Half title.
Added engraved t.p.
Colophon reads: Druck von Philipp Reclam jun. in Leipzig.
Includes tables.
"Verzeichniss der Stahlstiche.": p. [2]-[3] at end.
69 ill. on 66 plates (not including added engraved t.p.). Plates are engraved by A.H. Payne; engravings facing p. 30 and 304 drawn and signed by W.H. Bartlett; other plates unsigned.

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Rare Books copy: Purchased with funds from the J. Harvey Fahnestock Endowment for Scientific, Engineering and Rare Books; 2002.

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Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed.), G221

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J. Harvey Fahnestock Endowment for Scientific, Engineering and Rare Books

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