Lot 104: CRONAU (RUDOLF) Von Wunderland zu Wunderland. Landschafts- und Lebensbilder aus den Staaten und Territorien der Union, 2 vol. in 1, Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1886-1887

CRONAU (RUDOLF)
Von Wunderland zu Wunderland. Landschafts- und Lebensbilder aus den Staaten und Territorien der Union, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, 50 tipped-in collotype plates after Cronau, patterned endpapers, publisher's decorative cloth, g.e., folio (450 x 315mm.), Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1886-1887

Footnotes

• Cronau was sent to America as correspondent for the German newspaper Die Gartenlaube, and published this work on his return to Germany. The plates include portraits of Indian chiefs (3, including Sitting Bull), San Francisco (2, street in the Chinese quarter; interior of a Chinese restaurant), Dakota (2, including Indian encampment), Yellowstone (3), Milwaukee, Niagara Falls, New York (2, street scene; Brooklyn Bridge), a Louisiana swamp, Salt Lake City, gold prospectors in Idaho, Californian red woods, and Arizona Indian camp.