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Libros antiguos y modernos

Nelson, Wilfred

Five Years at Panama; the Trans-Isthmian Canal

1889

162,62 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1889
Lugar de impresión
New York. Belford Company
Autor
Nelson, Wilfred
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Central America & West Indies
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [20 x 14 cm]; xiv, 287 pp, folding map frontis, 24 plates (complete) from drwgs, tables. original blue decorated cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine bit faded, spine end frayed, small stain on outer cover, interior very good and clean in good cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A nicely illustrated work showing old and new Panama City islands, towns, and good description of Colon, life and conditions, churches, ranchos, the gulf, whale fishing, seasons, statistics, commercial life, market, buildings, Chinatown, relation to Colombia, earthquake of 1882, Carthagena, forty-niners and California gold-rush, condition of the canal, etc. The author was a doctor and corresponding member of the Montreal Natural History Society. Welch 191.
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