Sales catalogue 562: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/107
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 562: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I00 IOI I02 104 105 106 107 108 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. BRACKENRIDGE (H. M.)._ Voyage to South America, performed by Order of the American Government in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress. 2 vols., 8vo, half calf. London, John Miller, 1820. £335: This voyage was undertaken at the period of the war between Spain and _ her South American colonies for the purpose of assuring the combatants of America’s neutrality, and for ascertaining the kind of relations it might be advisable to estab- lish with them. It relates for the most part to Buenos Aires and the Argentine, also to Monte Video. Humboldt styled the work as ‘‘ An extraordinary mass of information, replete with philosophic views.”’ BRACKENRIDGE (H. M.). Voyage to Buenos Ayres, Performed in the Years 1817 and 1818, By Order of the American Government. 8vo, half morocco, t.e.g. London, Phillips, 1820. Aegis: CORDOVA (Admural A. de). A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan: with an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; and of the Natural Productions of Patagonia. Svo, wrappers. London, Phillips, 1819. 18s. 6d. CORDOVA (Antonio de). Relacion del. Ultimo Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes de la Fragata de S. M. Santa Maria de la Cabeza, 1785-6. Together with the Appendix. Engraved portrait of Magellan and several Jarge maps. 2 vols. in tr. Small thick 4to, calf. Madrid, 1788-93. LARaS. DAIREAUX (Emile). La Vie et les Moeurs a la Plata. With 2 maps. 2 vols. in 1. Thick 8vo, new half morocco, uncut, t.e.g. by Riviere. Paris, 1888. Lie [DAVIE (John Constanse)|. Letters from Buenos Ayres and Chili, with an original History of the latter country. With 6 coloured plates. 8vo, original decorative boards, uncut. London, 1819. £4 4s. GILLESPIE (Alex.).Buenos-Ayres, in een gedeelte zijner Plaatselijke betrekkingen en Omwentelings-geschiedenis, opgehelderd door eene Reis in de Binnenlanden van Rio de la Plata. 8vo, original boards, uncut. Amsterdam, Diederichs and Zoon, 1820. Lae HUDSON (W.H.). The Naturalist in La Plata. With numerous illustrations. Second Edition. Original cloth. London, 1892. fi 15s. Only 1,000 cpies of the first and 750 copies of the second editioa were issued. DITTO. First Epirion in the original cloth, slightly soiled. Londen, 1892. £3 38:
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