[Rarebooks] FS: Hall: Extracts from a Journal...Chili, Peru, Mexico

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Hall, Basil. EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL, WRITTEN ON THE COASTS OF CHILI, 
PERU, AND MEXICO, IN THE YEARS 1820, 1821, 1822. [TWO VOLUMES]. 
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.,  1824. xviii, 372 
pp; xi, 287, 65 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w folding map. Sm. 8vo. Full 
calf, four gilt decorated raised bands, two compartments with gilt 
titles, three with decorations, boards and turn-ins decorated in 
gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Sabin 29718. Palau 
112072. Griffin 3457. Hill p. 134. Second edition.

"Hall was in command of the H.M.S. Conway, and his Journal is one of 
the best descriptions of events on the west coast as seen by a 
British naval officer," Griffin p.315. "Obra interesante con curiosa 
anecdotas y descripciones fieles de las costas de Oceano Pacifico 
entre Chile y Mexico. (An interesting work with interesting anecdotes 
and descriptions of the Pacific coast between Mexico and Chile)," 
Palau VI, p. 308. The work went through three editions the first 
year. Provenance: Elizabeth Barneby, her armorial bookplate. Very 
good copies, spines sunned, boards a bit scuffed, minor wear, 
armorial bookplates on front pastedowns; map foxed with short closed 
tear, leaves bright.  [34987] $250.00


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