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Cronau's Im Wilden Westen.. - Volume with 8 Plates - This illustrated volume is Rudolf Daniel Ludwig Cronau's Im Wilden Westen. Eine Kunstlerfahrt durch die Prairien und Felsengebirge der Union translates to In the Wild West. An artist's journey through the prairies and Rocky Mountains of the Union. The work was published in 1890 by Oskar Lobbecke in Braunschweig, Germany. The volume is bound in pictorial cloth covers with titles in gold, borders and rules in black, all edges dyed red, botanical end-papers, color frontis with tissue. It includes one color plate and seven photogravures with numerous black and white images in the text, some full page. Rudolf Daniel Ludwig Cronau (1855-1939) was a German-American illustrator, painter, and journalist. He was known for his depictions and writing about the American West. Paper Size: ~ 6 3/4” by 9 1/2” Paper Type or Special Features: Volume with 8 Plates