Book Description

4to. [ii], xvi, 568. Text in double column. Frontis and 133 attractive full page engravings most with double views, plus two folding maps to rear, the one showing North America, the other South America by Dufour. Original quarter morocco gilt, on marbled boards. Very light foxing to prelims and rather more toward the end, otherwise a good, clean example. The contents run Introduction, departure from Bordeaux, to Cuba, Haiti, Guyana, Columbia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Patagonia, Chili, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, Philadelphia, Washington, Montreal, Greenland, and home. Early and attractive edition of this excellent travel work. Voyage Pittoresque Dans les Deux Ameriques. Resume general de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo, Gomara, Garcilazo de la Vega, Acosta, Duterte, Labat, Stedman, La Condamine, Ulloa, Humboldt, Hamilton, Cochrane, Mawe, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, ma. De Neuwied, Spix et Martius, etc etc, par les redacteurs du Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde. Publie sous le Direction de M. Alcide d Orbigny. Accompagne de Cartes…
Author ORBIGNY, Alcide D'
Date 1841
Binding Hardcover
Publisher Paris: Furne et Companie, 1841.
Condition Very Good

Price: £150.00

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