[Rarebooks] FS: 1400 MILES UP THE ORINOCO

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Robinson, James H. JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION 1400 MILES UP THE ORINOCO 
AND 300 UP THE ARAUCA, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRY, THE MANNERS OF 
THE PEOPLE, MILITARY OPERATIONS, &C. London: Printed for Black, 
Young, and Young, 1822. 1pl., [v]-xix, [1], 397 pp. Illus. with 1 
hand-colored and 6 b/w plates. 8vo. Later three quarter calf over 
marbled boards. First edition.

Robinson was an English officer who enlisted as a surgeon in 1818 in 
the Venezuelan army of liberation, and was one of the first 
volunteers to reach Bolivar at Angostura. "The author has traversed 
the interior of Venezuela by its most interesting route; has borne a 
part in the sanguinary war which at this moment devastates it; has 
gone through scenes of extraordinary suffering; and has throughout, 
described domestic manners and public events with a freshness and a 
force which are rarely evinced by the professed writers of similar 
works. Perhaps no book of travels, since that of Mr. Parke, exhibits 
a journey of such event, such suffering, and such interest; and 
certainly no work gives views of the people of Venezuela and of the 
present war which devastates that country, at all approaching to 
these in accuracy or in interest. The author having written many 
severe things concerning Venezuela... [he called the people a 
"corrupt, stupid, beggerly and dishonest set of beings, chained in 
ignorance and swayed by superstition and the most gloomy bigotry"]... 
had desired to remain anonymous, but as he had since fallen a victim 
to the climate there, the work was published under his own name." 
Provenance: W. F. Clark. A very good copy, rebacked, boards rubbed, 
early owner's bookplate and signature on front endpapers, tiny 
bookseller's label from Cornhill, first tissue guard loose, leaves 
clean, plates sharp. Palau 271090. Sabin 72125. Larned 4015. 
Rodrigues 2106. [37065] $1750.00

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