[Rarebooks] FS: Hadfield's travels in S. America w/maps & plates. London: 1854

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(LATIN AMERICA) Hadfield, William. BRAZIL, THE RIVER PLATE, AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS; with the Cape Horn Route to Australia. Including Notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verds. Illustrated... from the South American Sketches of Sir. W. Gore Ousley... and... from the Drawings of Sir Charles Hotham During His Recent Mission to Paraguay, of Which Country Much New Information Is Supplied; as Also of the Region of the Amazon. Portraits, Maps, Charts, and Plans. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1854. First edition. (2),vi,384pp., mostly unopened. Plus a tipped-in ad leaf for Dundas' "Sketches of Brazil." Illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece portrait, a large folding color map of South America with an inset of the province of Rio de Janeiro, plus folding maps of Brazil and the Falkland Islands. Further illustrated with 19 text plates, 3 full-page portraits, and numerous text woodcuts. Orig. blind stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Minor chips at extremities of spine, small splits at head & foot of front hinge, and a 3" closed tear in the large folding map, but still a very nice copy.    $450.00 (trade discount allowed)

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