Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region, including his journey up the Missouri River, with Swiss painter Karl Bodmer...read more

Product Description: The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region, including his journey up the Missouri River, with Swiss painter Karl Bodmer...read more

Product Description: This Tiny Folio™ volume is based on the well-known frontier artwork by Karl Bodmer, George Catlin, and McKenney & Hall.Based on the renowned frontier artwork of George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America, and Prince Maximilian’s Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832 and 1834, these historic collections of prints and paintings were the first to preserve images of Native Americans before their culture was affected by the white man...read more

Providing a look at Native American life and customs before the invention of photography, this book contains excerpts from Wied's journals that serve as keys to the details contained within each image, giving historical information about the rituals, clothes, and tools of the Native Americans, including well-known figures such as Mato-Tope.

Product Description: In 1832–34 German scientist Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied traveled the interior regions of North America to document what he regarded as vanishing cultures. Accompanying him was the twenty-two-year-old Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809–93), whom Maximilian employed to create a “faithful and vivid image” of America and its people...read more

Product Description: Traveling among the tribes in the Upper Missouri area during the 1830s, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer painted spectacular landscapes and striking portraits of Native Americans. This superb collection reproduces 24 paintings from that magnificent series, including Mandan Shrine, Teton Sioux Woman, Buffalo and Elk on the Upper Missouri, and Skin Lodge of an Assiniboin Chief...read more

Product Description: In 1832 looking to gather images and information about native Americans and their customs, Maximillian Prince of Wied travelled with Swiss painter Karl Bodmer across North America; Wied's travel experiences were published in 1840, his text printed in two volumes and 81 of Bodmers illustrations were published as a portfolio...read more

Product Description: The Maximilian-Bodmer Collection at Joslyn Art Museum is internationally recognized as a priceless record of early nineteenth-century America. Nebraska is fortunate to have this significant collection. Prince Maximilian's meticulous written observations, contained in lengthy journals and letters, are beautifully depicted by hundreds of landscapes and portraits created by Karl Bodmer...read more

Relates the experiences of a German prince, his servant, and a young Swiss artist as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833

A miniature folio based on the well-known frontier paintings features hundreds of full-color illustrations.

Looks at the nineteenth-century Swiss artist's watercolors and drawings of the American West, Indians, and Western wildlife