[Rarebooks] fa: [PATAGONIA] Auguste Guinnard: THREE YEARS SLAVERY AMONG THE PATAGONIANS - 1871

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A[uguste] Guinnard; Charles S. Cheltnam (trans.): Three Years' Slavery among the Patagonians: An Account of His Captivity. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1871. First English-language edition; 8vo (21 cm) in original publisher's cloth decorated in black and gilt; x + 375 pp.; frontispiece map. Sabin 29272.

First edition in English of Guinnard's "narrative of personal adventure and experience in a little-known region of the earth... [among] a race of the fiercest and most revolting savages in existence... The materials composing it were collected under circumstances of difficulty and peril, precluding the possibility of strictly methodical observation or scientific precision of detail..." Binding with light soiling, bumping to the spine ends; contents quite clean and fresh, largely unopened (meaning the page-gatherings are still joined at the top edges as issued), hence unread. Bookplate of the Steve Fossett Collection of Adventure & Exploration. An uncommon title, especially in this condition.