Four Years in a Government Exploring Expedition; to the Island of Madeira-Cape Verd Islands-Brazil-Coast of Patagonia-Chili-Peru, etc
A first-person narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition by naval officer George M. Colvocoresses, published in New York in 1852 for general American readers. Small wood engravings mix animal vignettes with wide, low-horizon views of Astoria, Pueblo de los Angeles and Monterey harbour, giving designers tonal landscape strips, shipping silhouettes and captioned oval frames.
