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Handbook of the River Plate; Comprising Buenos Ayres, the Upper Provinces, Banda Oriental, and Paraguay
by Mulhall, M.G. & E.T. (Mulhall, Michael George; Mulhall, Edward T.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, spine edges rubbed, scattered foxing, page 165 in Section C trimmed closely at fore edge with loss of one letter in e
- Seller
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East Jewett, New York, United States
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About This Item
Buenos Ayres: Standard Printing- Office, 1869. First edition thus; Improved and enlarged edition. Later half navy morocco over tan cloth, five raised bands with gilt rules, red spine label titled in gilt. Very good, spine edges rubbed, scattered foxing, page 165 in Section C trimmed closely at fore edge with loss of one letter in each of two lines.. xvi, 192,160, 200, 38 pp. [adv] pp. Sm. 4to. Volume I (all published). The authors published the much smaller "The River Plate Handbook, guide, directory and almanac for 1863". In the preface of our volume, the authors called this an "Improved and enlarged edition" (Preface dated March 17, 1869), the first of five more editions that would run until 1892, and were intended to encourage immigration from Europe. It was one of the earliest English language books published in Argentina.
Michael George Mulhall (1836-1900), "journalist and statistician, ... was educated for the priesthood... and in 1858 went to South America where his brother, Edward Thomas Mulhall (1832-1899) was working as a sheep farmer. The brothers set up a printing and publishing house in Buenos Aires from which they issued the Standard and River Plate News, a four-page weekly newspaper. In 1861 they relaunched it as a daily (the first such in the English language in South America)" ODNB.
Inked inscription laid in loose, "W.S. Jackson with kind regards of Isaac Kich / Buenos Ayres, Feb. 9th, 1872." Sabin 51268.
Michael George Mulhall (1836-1900), "journalist and statistician, ... was educated for the priesthood... and in 1858 went to South America where his brother, Edward Thomas Mulhall (1832-1899) was working as a sheep farmer. The brothers set up a printing and publishing house in Buenos Aires from which they issued the Standard and River Plate News, a four-page weekly newspaper. In 1861 they relaunched it as a daily (the first such in the English language in South America)" ODNB.
Inked inscription laid in loose, "W.S. Jackson with kind regards of Isaac Kich / Buenos Ayres, Feb. 9th, 1872." Sabin 51268.
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- Bookseller
- Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44146
- Title
- Handbook of the River Plate; Comprising Buenos Ayres, the Upper Provinces, Banda Oriental, and Paraguay
- Author
- Mulhall, M.G. & E.T. (Mulhall, Michael George; Mulhall, Edward T.)
- Format/Binding
- Later half navy morocco over tan cloth, five raised bands with gilt rules, red spine label titled in gilt
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, spine edges rubbed, scattered foxing, page 165 in Section C trimmed closely at fore edge with loss of one letter in e
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus; Improved and enlarged edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Standard Printing- Office
- Place of Publication
- Buenos Ayres
- Date Published
- 1869
- Keywords
- Argentina, , Latin America, South America, Argentina, Argentina, Uruguay Paraguay Rio de la Plata, Book
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