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Letters from North America; translated and edited by Theodore Schoenman and Helen Benedek Schoenman
Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1975. 198p., illustrations, cloth near-fine in shelfworn dj. ... more information
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Letters from North America
Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1975. First. First edition. Translated and edited by Theodore and Helen Benedek Schoenman. Octavo. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper. Xantus, a refugee from Hungary, spent nearly a decade as a naturalist and collector on the western frontier of America. According to Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institution, Xantus's collections "are believed to have been much larger and more complete, than any ever made before in America during the same pe... more information
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LETTERS FROM NORTH AMERICA
Detroit MI: Wayne State University, 1975. First Edition 8vo, pp. 198. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated wtih drawings. Translated from the Hungarian by Theodore and Helen Benedek Schoenman. A nice copy in somewhat scuffed dj. Xantus was a political refugee from Hungary who, in the 1850s, came to America. His letters to his family detail his journeys through North America, and his collections of the flora and fauna of the western frontier found their way to the Smithsonian and to Hungarian museums.... more information
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