Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

362 c   HOHENSTEIN, ANTON (after). Native & Foreign or A Hint for the Know Nothings. Tinted lithograph with additional hand-color by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse. 27 3 / 4 x19 3 / 4 inches sheet size, wide margins; washed with minor marginal repairs; contemporary Eastlake- style wood and gilt frame. New York: Emile Seitz, 1854 [250/350] Scarce lithograph depicting a tatty youngster embodying the anti-immigrant proclivity of the Know Nothing movement which evolved into the American Party in the mid 1850’s; a short-lived xenophobic political crowd generally overcome by basic civil liberties and common decency, yet whose tenets somehow remain at issue in modern society. No copies traced. 362 363