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After Johann Moritz Rugendas William Henry Bartlett and others Amerika in Miniatur: An album of views of North America, Brazil and Mexico, with manuscript title 'Künstler-Album./Amerika in Miniatur./Original Ansichten von Städten und/Landschaften in Amerika./Gezeichnet von Rugendas, Kurz etc. gest. von/G.M. Kurz und colorirt von K. Strickler' [No place: no date but circa 1840]. Large oblong 4° (26 x 33cm.). Manuscript title in red and black within triple fillet ruled border on dark grey-toned paper, 31 steel-engraved plates by Georg Michael Kurz after Rugendas, R.F. Kurz, W.H. Bartlett and others, ALL WITH FINE CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING, each image with thick black ink-ruled border, grey bodycolour surround and with gilt manuscript titling in German, five plates cut to the edge of the image and mounted to size. (Some scuffing or rubbing to surrounds, small pieces of the facing tissue guards occasionally adhering to ink-ruled borders.) Modern black morocco incorporating large sections of the original binding, upper cover with wide gilt decorative border surrounding the centrally-placed word 'Album' also in gilt, the lower cover with similar border in blind, the spine gilt in six compartments, lettered 'ANSICHTEN VON AMERIKA' in the third, the others decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. A FINE ALBUM OF VIEWS OF MEXICO, BRAZIL, THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AFTER JOHANN MORITZ RUGENDAS WILLIAM HENRY BARLETT AND OTHERS. The format of the collection suggests that it was prepared to order, perhaps for German-speaking traveller to commemorate a tour of the Americas. The views include eleven of the United States, four of Canada, fifteen of Mexico and one of Brazil. Five of the plates have been cut to the edge of the image and mounted, the remainder are here bound in full sheet form. The images are titled as follows (image size, including ruled borders, are included in brackets): 1. "Waldscenerie/Pensilvanien" (10.7 x 15.7cm.) mounted 2. "New York" [Bird's Eye view of the City and County of New York with Environs] (12 x 19.8cm.) 3. "Indier./Mexico" (12.2 x 18.3cm.) 4. "Prescott./Canada" (11.8 x 19.9cm.) 5. "Washington./D.C." (11.7 x 19.4 cm.) 6. "Stierfang./Mexico (11.3 x 18.5 cm.) 7. "Kingston./Canada (11.7 x 19.7cm.) 8. "Vulcan Jorullo./Mexico" (10.8 x 18.3 cm.) 9. "Mirador./Mexico" (11.5 x 18.4cm.) 10."San Francisco./Californien" [Panorama of San Francisco] (11.6 x 20.6cm.) 11."Urwald Scenerie./Brasilien." (11.3 x 16.1cm.) mounted 12."Halifax./Neuschottland." (12.5 x 18.5cm.) mounted 13."Vegetation der Westküste./Mexico" (11.2 x 18.2cm.) 14."Cleveland/Ohio" (11.7 x 19.7cm.) 15."Rochester./New York" (11.7 x 19.3cm.) 16."Vulcan von Colima./Mexico." (11.3 x 18.4cm.) 17."Brooklyn./L.J. [sic.]" (11.8 x 19.2cm.) 18."Milwaukee./Wisconsin." (12.1 x 19.6cm.) mounted 19."Tanzende Mestizen./Mexico." (11.9 x 18.2cm.) 20."Detroit./Michigan." (12 x 19.7cm.) 21."Hafen von Veracruz./Mexico." (11.2 x 18cm.) 22."Region der Eichen./Mexico." (11.3 x 18.4cm.) 23."Barranca (schlucht) von Santa Maria./Mexico." (11.2 x 18.4cm.) 24."Niagara Fall" (10.7 x 15.9cm.) mounted 25."Philadelphia" (12 x 19.9cm.) 26."Hochebene von Puebla./Mexico." (11.5 x 18.5cm.) 27."Phisionomie der Küstenvegetation./Mexico." (11.3 x 18.2cm.) 28."Alameda./Mexico." (11.2 x 18.5cm.) 29."Region der Savanen./Mexico." (11.4 x 18.2cm.) 30."Region der Nadelhölzer./Mexico." (11.3 x 18.4cm.) 31."Montreal./Canada." (11.8 x 19.7cm.)