NEUESTE LANDER-UND VOLKERKUNDE : EIN GEOGRAPHISCHES LESEBUCH FUR ALLE STANDE ; FUNDZEHUTER BAND. AMERICA NO. III. MIT CHARTEN. FOLDOUT ORIGINAL MAPS (1818) OF LOUISIANA, AND THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA From Alaska to San Francisco Bay Area.; (LATEST GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY: A GEOGRAPHICAL READER FOR ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY; FIFTEENTH VOLUME. AMERICA NO. III. WITH MAPS)
Weimar, Germany: Geographical Institute of Weimar, 1818. Softcover. IN GERMAN. Octavo. Stitched binding. Printed in blackletter on thick, laid paper, with two foldout maps bound in, Engraved Map of Louisiana in the front and Franz Pluth at the rear. This the 15th volume of a 23-volume geographical series published between 1806 and 1827, encompassing pp. 195 -288 (of the entire work) This "America Third Section"j includes descriptions of "The Northern Half of North America. Foldout Maps: 1) Louisiana; and 2) Franz Pluth's "Charte von der Nordwestkuste Americas Nach Vancouver" (after Vancouver's 1796 cartography). The series designed for the general reader, as opposed to serious scholar. It included commentaries on the lands and peoples of the areas described, including, for example, its opinion on how ugly the Eskimos were and thus were picked on by the Indians, killed outright or "made off with." Very Good. Item #100510
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