[Rarebooks] FS: Memoir of an expedition in Central America. NY: 1850

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(LATIN AMERICA) Velasquez, Pedro. MEMOIR OF AN EVENTFUL EXPEDITION IN CENTRAL 
AMERICA; Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya... 
Described by John L. Stevens, Esq., and Other Travellers. Translated from the 
Spanish... New York: Printed by J. W. Bell. 1850. 36pp. Illus. with 7 text 
drawings of Central American ruins. Orig. printed front wrapper, lightly soiled, back 
wrapper lacking.     $300.00 (trade discount allowed)
This memoir purports to be the translated extracts of a journal kept by 
Velasquez who accompanied Hertis and Hammond, the promoters of the expedition. 
Iximaya is claimed to be the Indian City referred to by John L. Stephens in his “
Incidents and Travel in Central America,” New York: 1841.

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