REISEBILDER AND STUDIEN AUS DEM NORDENDER VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VON AMERIKA by Quentin, Karl - 1851

Arnsberg: Grote Verlag, 1851. First edition. Two parts bound in one as published. [8],152; [6],210pp. Original printed small 4to wrappers. Interesting first hand account of New York, President Fillmore, Europeans in New York City, Albany, Boston, New England, Daniel Webster, Bunker Hill, Hartford, Yale College. Very scarce. Howes Q 12. Buck 464: " The writer reached Chicago by way of the lakes, traveled somewhat in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin by stage and railroad, then went by canal and rivers to St. Louis, and later returned to the east by the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. He describes at some length the country traversed and comments on western politics, the Germans in the west, and the Catholic Church in America.