Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

8vo. Wood-engraved frontispiece. (Some spotting and staining to frontispiece and title-page.) Original blind-stamped brown cloth.

SECOND EDITION, containing a frontispiece depicting Fremont not present in the 1856 first edition and removes the dedication (pp.v-vi), otherwise it collates the same. Carvalho was the artist on Fremont's 1853 Rocky Mountain Expedition in search of a railroad route to the West. He was famous for taking daguerreotypes of the Journey that survived his return to New York and were used to create engravings for accounts of the expedition. Unfortunately, nearly all the originals were lost in a warehouse fire. Cowan p.108; Flake 1224n; Graff 619; Howes C213; Sabin 11180; Smith 1547; Wagner-Camp 373:2.