Title: Travels in Central America, being a journal of nearly three years' residence in the country, together with a sketch of the history of the republic, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 ...
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Title: Travels in Central America, being a journal of nearly three years' residence in the country, together with a sketch of the history of the republic, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical, commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters, and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples, and the natural and built environments that have fascinated historians for centuries. Along with written records, the collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Dunlop, Robert Glasgow; 1847. 12 . 1430.h.1.
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Edition:
London, Printed by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. 1847
Publisher:
London, Printed by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. 1847
Language:
English
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12mo, 18.5cm, the First Edition, vii, 358p., folding frontis map with some expertrepairs at the folds, including the half title with the colophon onthe verso, rebound in contemporary style half tan calf, full giltornate decorations in the panels, green leather label gilt, darkblue cloth boards, text slight toned, a fine copy attractivelybound. (cgc) A narrative and intelligent description by a Scot whotravelled extensively in the area, including politics, towns andcities, agriculture, natural history, indigenous peoples, businssopportunities, geology, volcanoes, etc. This contains the firstmap of the Republic of Central America and one of the few everpublished since the republic broke up shortly after into theseparate nations that exist today. Sabin 21317. Parker, Travels inCentral America. Markman 49: 'General description of CentralAmerica at mid-nineteenth century. Also has a description ofAntigua, Guatemala and Guatemalan houses'. Welch 61. Spain &Spanish America 223. Humphreys 1707. Grieb GU391: 'More than justa travelogue or journal, it includes historical accounts drawn fromthe existing literature...his accounts of contemporary politicalmaneuvers and revolts are valuable to the historian of thisera'.
