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Add this copy of Handbook of the River Plate; Comprising Buenos Ayres, to cart. $320.00, very good condition, Sold by Turn-The-Page Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Skyway, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1869 by Standard Printing Office.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Buenos Aires: Standard Printing Office, 1869. Paper over boards, just rubbed through at corners, with pebbled cloth spine and gilt-stamped title to spine, plus remnant of old paper label there. Date inked on front flyleaf. A distrubutor's paper label on title page: Collins & Brothers of New York. A short tear to first page of one section. xvi, 192, 160, 200pp. Plus 8 pages of adverts. Volume I of a planned two volume work, but the second volume was never issued. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall.
Add this copy of Handbook of the River Plate; Comprising Buenos Ayres, to cart. $450.00, very good condition, Sold by Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from East Jewett, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1869 by Standard Printing-Office.
Edition:
First edition thus; Improved and enlarged edition
Publisher:
Standard Printing-Office
Published:
1869
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17759864970
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Very good, spine edges rubbed, scattered foxing, page 165 in Section C trimmed closely at fore edge with loss of one letter in each of two lines. xvi, 192, 160, 200, 38 pp. [adv] pp. Sm. 4to. Volume I (all published). The authors published the much smaller "The River Plate Handbook, guide, directory and almanac for 1863". In the preface of our volume, the authors called this an "Improved and enlarged edition" (Preface dated March 17, 1869), the first of five more editions that would run until 1892, and were intended to encourage immigration from Europe. It was one of the earliest English language books published in Argentina. Michael George Mulhall (1836-1900), "journalist and statistician, ...was educated for the priesthood...and in 1858 went to South America where his brother, Edward Thomas Mulhall (1832-1899) was working as a sheep farmer. The brothers set up a printing and publishing house in Buenos Aires from which they issued the Standard and River Plate News, a four-page weekly newspaper. In 1861 they relaunched it as a daily (the first such in the English language in South America)" ODNB. Inked inscription laid in loose, "W.S. Jackson with kind regards of Isaac Kich / Buenos Ayres, Feb. 9th, 1872." Sabin 51268.
