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Scherzer, Dr. Carl

Travels in the Free States of Central America: Nicaragua, Honduras and San Salvador

1857

351,56 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1857
Lugar de impresión
London. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts
Autor
Scherzer, Dr. Carl
Edición
First edition in English.
Materia
Travel - Central America & West Indies
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [20 x 13 cm]; 2 volumes in one, xvi, [i], xii, 253 pp, folding hand-colored map of Central America, folding hand-colored cross-section of proposed interoceanic canal, both drawn & engraved by Edward Weller. contemporary full tan calf, gilt decorated covers, elaborate gilt designs on spine, gilt lettering on light green leather spine label, marbled edges and endpapers, front joint cracked and repaired, corners & spine ends worn, very good clean copy. A pictur Humphreys 1712. Sabin 77625. Paulau 304462. Griffin 4409: 'A perceptive German observer's impressions and descriptions of places, conditions, customs and individuals in the 1850's'. An interesting travel narrative describing the people, geography, economies, society, culture, silver mines, agriculture. Presentation gift inscription dated 1864 on blank endpaper.