Sights Once Seen: Daguerreotyping Fremont's Last Expedition Through the Rockies by Shlaer, Robert - 2000

Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. Very Good +. 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0890133409 Oblong 4to, 165 pp, VG+ in blind-stamped cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 192 color and b&w illustrations, including 120 daguerreotypes by the author, covering Fremont's original route of exploration. .

Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000-03-15. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Santa Fe NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 165 pages. Little is known about the fifth and last western expedition of the celebrated explorer John Charles Frmont. The great effort to survey a transcontinental railway route across the 38th parallel ended short of success in the snows of Utah in 1854 but involved a meticulous photographic documentation-in daguerreotypes-of the route from the Mississippi westward. It was believed that a central railroad across the country would favor abolitionists in the great debate then raging in the country over slavery. Solomon Nunes Carvalho was hired by Frmont to photograph the expedition-the first time a western expeditionary survey had been systematically documented in photographs. Tragically, the daguerreotypes were destroyed by fire, and Fremont's fifth expedition was lost to history. Author and daguerreotypist Robert Shlaer remarkably has reconstructed the expedition in 120 original… Read More

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000. 1st. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FINE, nearly As New, in Very Good jacket (handled, bumped at edges and folds). x, 165 pp., 192 color and b/w plates. Size: Oblong 8vo

Albuquerque, New Mexico: Museum of New Mexico Press. Oblong hc. Bright and crisp with only the slightest bit of bumping at the t/b of the spine. Dust jacket (in mylar sleeve) is bright and crisp. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Mary Lee Spence, With thanks for your kind assistance and advice. Robert Shlaer Santa Fe 3/15/00". . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2000.

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000. 1st. . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. FAIR only, with dampstain to front and back covers and lower page corners nearly throughout; spine slightly cocked, edges of boards and page edges lightly sunned. Jacket handled, bumped at upper edge, stained at rear. x, 165 pp., 192 color and b/w plates. Offerd As Is. [deV] Size: Oblong 8vo

Museum of New Mexico Pr, 2000-03-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!