Head Captain Bond (5 results)

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In 1825 Captain Francis Bond Head retired from the army to take up a post with a mining company to survey and report on mining opportunities in Chile and Argentina. This mission earned him the nickname "Galloping Head" as a result of his travels back and forth across the continent and gave him the material for this book, which was much admired by Charles Darwin on his own journey from ocean to ocean six years later.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In 1825 Captain Francis Bond Head retired from the army to take up a post with a mining company to survey and report on mining opportunities in Chile and Argentina. This mission earned him the nickname "Galloping Head" as a result of his travels back and forth across the continent and gave him the material for this book, which was much admired by Charles Darwin on his own journey from ocean to ocean six years later.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Third Edition (stated on title page) (first published in 1826). Hardback copy in half bound burgundy leather, black cloth boards, 5 raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, small bookshop sticker to top corner of front pastedown, some foxing to title page, rubbing to leather edges. (23/2).

12mo, pp. xii, [1], 14-264; front free endpaper excised, otherwise complete with the half title; contemporary calf-backed boards; small cracks starting at the joints, but in all, very good. The preface discusses the rise and fall of English mining companies in the region. The author was himself a mining company representative, and he accounts for the commercial failure as ignorance of the English about the country in which they were working. Head was also appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1835, and was later knighted. American Imprints 29183.

Rough Notes taken during Some Rapid Journeys across The Pampas and among the Andes.Boston, Wells and Lilly, 1827, 18 x 11 cm., holandesa piel chagrín, XII + 264 págs. (Sellos de anterior poseedor. Primera edición americana de esta obra no recogida por Palau). Historia de España.