Xantus john (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Previously unpublished letters of this Hungarian immigrant who joined the US Army under an assumed name, a charlatan who managed to alienate most of the people he met, and yet one of the Smithsonian's most successful collectors of natural history specimens in the mid-19th century. From his station at Ft Tejon in California's Tehachapi Mountains, Xantus carried on a lengthy correspondence with Spencer Baird at the Smithsonian. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, notes, index. 255 pp. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy, but with a hint of sunning to spine of dj.).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 422 pp.