Lot 124: MILBERT, JACQUES GÉRARD.

ITINÉRAIRE PITTORESQUE DU FLEUVE HUDSON ET DES PARTIES LATERALES L'AMÉRIQUE DU NORD. PARIS: HENRY GAUGAIN, [1828]

atlas volume only, folio (510 x 342mm.), hand-coloured lithographed title-page, 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates, printed on india paper and mounted, folding map (partly hand-coloured), contemporary green calf-backed boards, slight spotting, joints breaking, extremities rubbed

LITERATURE

Sabin 48916

NOTE

Milbert spent seven years in America, amassing more than 8,000 specimens of flora and fauna for the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He also drew sketches of the landscape which were published as the present work, usually accompanied by two volumes of text.