Author: SQUIER, E. G.
Title: Notes on Central America; particularly the states of Honduras and San Salvador: their geography, topography, climate, population, resources, productions, etc. etc., and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway. With original maps and Illustrations
Description: NY, Harper & Brothers. 1855, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8vo. 397pp. illustrated with 5 folding maps (including a large frontis fold-out) and 10 tissue-guarded tinted plates. Blind embossed brown cloth with gilt titles, colored endpapers. A comprehensive account of Central America. Squier served numerous posts in Central America, including charge d'affaires for the US in 1849. Light wear at the crown and upper tips, minor closed tear at the gutter of large folding map, else near fine, pages, maps and plates bright, no foxing, binding crisp and tight. A very sharp example. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

Keywords: History


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