[Lesueur, Charles] Loir, Adrien

Charles-Alexandre Lesueur Artiste et Savant Francais en Amérique de 1816 a 1839. [With Additional Photographs and Typed Letter]

Le Havre: Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, 1920. Small 4to, red library buckram over original wraps, 108 pp. + 42 plates. With an additional three original photographs of Lesueur’s work tipped in, along with a letter, presumably written by a staff member at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle in Le Havre which hold the works. Ex-LOC, with duplicate and deaccession marks to plate on front pastedown, still very good overall. Very Good. Item #List1509

An uncommon title on Charles-Alexander Lesueur’s travels in America from 1816 to 1839, illustrated with forty-two plates reproducing his sketches from the period, some of which was spent in New Harmony, Indiana. In addition, this copy contains three photographs taken of Lesueur’s sketches, two of Lake Champlain and one showing The Hermitage in Nashville, from the originals held in Le Havre.

Price: $275.00