[Rarebooks] FS: Bonnycastle SPANISH AMERICA

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Bonnycastle, R.H. SPANISH AMERICA; OR A DESCRIPTIVE, HISTORICAL, AND 
GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE DOMINIONS OF SPAIN IN THE WESTERN 
HEMISPHERE, CONTINENTAL & INSULAR. Illustrated by a Map of North and 
South America, and the West India Islands; and an Engraving, 
Representing the Comparative Altitudes of the Mountains of those 
Regions. Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1819. XX, [21]-482 pp. + adv. 
[2 pp]. Illus. with a map and color engraving (both folding). 8vo. 
Rebacked in style with tan paper spine over original blue-gray paper 
covered boards. First American edition.

Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1791-1847), an officer of the British 
army, "compiled his work with considerable care from the writings of 
Humboldt, and from the standard early Spanish books upon the American 
colonies. His volumes present a very useful summary of the condition 
of old Spanish America at the time when the several colonies began 
their career as independent states," (Larned, p. 443). This first 
American edition in one volume was preceded in 1818 by the English 
two volume edition. A very good copy, fore and bottom edges 
untrimmed, small marginal tear to map expertly repaired.	Sabin 
6333. Palau 32836. Spain & Spanish America I: 100. Lowndes I: 235. 
Larned 3909. Hill p. 53. [34449] $750.00

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