Through Southern Mexico, being an Account of the Travels of a Naturalist
by GADOW, Hans;
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, Witherby & Co., 1908, First edition. . original red pictorial gilt cloth with gilt border and gilt spine title lettering, top edge gilted, spine faded but lettering clear, bookplate of Sir Francis Denys Bart. on endpaper, title page lightly foxed, else a clean very good sound copy. . 8vo [22.5 x 16 cm]; xvi, 527 pp, frontis, hundreds of illustrations mainly from photos, some drwgs, maps, including foldout, index. . The author describes the peoples, ruins, country-side and natural history and plants of the area south and east of Mexico City to the Gule of Campeche and the Pacific including Oaxaca, Mitla, Vera Cruz, San Luis, Chilpancingo, Ixtla, Cuernavaca, Puebla, etc. Very well-illustrated. Welch 158. Humphreys 2043. Spain & Spanish America 270. Wood 351. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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- Bookseller
- Horizon Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- J10672
- Title
- Through Southern Mexico, being an Account of the Travels of a Naturalist
- Author
- GADOW, Hans;
- Format/Binding
- Original red pictorial gilt cloth with gilt border and gilt spine title lettering, top edge gilted, spine faded but lettering cl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Witherby & Co., 1908, First edition.
- Size
- 8vo [22.5 x 16 cm]; xvi, 527 pp,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel - North America;
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