Buenos Ayres, and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata: their Present State, Trade, and Debt; with some Account from Original Documents of the Progress of Geographical Discovery in those parts of South America during the last Sixty Years
Language: English
Published by John Murray, London, 1839
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB
AbeBooks seller since March 5, 1999
Condition: Used
US$ 500.00
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xxviii, 415 pp. + [adv]. 16 pp. Illus. with 5 plates ( 2 hand-colored, 1 folding). 8vo. Lacking the large folding map. An objective and scholarly account. "Parish established his residence in Buenos Aires in 1824 and became the friend of Rivadvia, Rosas, and Dorrego. His work. is an important source of information on the provinces of Entre Rios, Cordoba, La Rioja, and especially Salta," Griffin p. 550. "The author is the discoverer of those extraordinary fossil animals, the megatherium and the glyptodon. Contains information not to be found in the second edition," Sabin. Palau 213095. Sabin 58612. Griffin 5918. Larned 4085. Lacking the general map, joints split, chips to head and tail of spine, spine torn and reattached, boards rubbed, some sunning, accession numbers on backstrip, first signature loose, some foxing including to edges of plates, otherwise leaves clean.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Buenos Ayres, and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata: their Present State, Trade, and Debt; with some Account from Original Documents of the Progress of Geographical Discovery in those parts of South America during the last Sixty Years
- Author
- Parish, Woodbine
- Publisher
- John Murray, London
- Publication year
- 1839
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First edition.
- Dimensions
- 8vo.
- Seller catalogs
- Latin America
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB
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