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Journey To Iceland, And Travels In Sweden And Norway Hardcover - 1852

by Pfeiffer, Ida

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New York: George P. Putnam , 1852. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 273 pages, purplish cloth fading at the edges, foxing. Mme. Pfeiffer was an Austrian explorer, and a member of the geographical societies at Berlin and Paris. This reports her travels in Scandinavia in 1845, and prior to her around-the-world trip in 1846. includes an Appendix which reports salaries to government officials, and another listing plants, insects etc. collected on her travels. Issued in Putnam's Popular Library, Library of the People series. Preface by the American translator, Anne Charlotte Fenimore- Cooper, daughter of James. Note: no evidence of a map with this copy.
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