Caleb Kiffer’s Specialist Pick: Karl Bodmer’s Travels in the Interior of North America

The Thursday, May 29 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books features a rare unbound copy of Karl Bodmer’s Travels in the Interior of North America.

Swann Maps & Atlases Specialist Caleb Kiffer gives an overview of Bodmer’s Travels in the Interior of North America, which features 81 hand-colored aquatint engravings capturing the scenery and native inhabitants he encountered while accompanying Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Newied’s North American exploration up the Missouri River into the Plains territory in 1832.