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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a travelogue by Col. Albert S. Evans describing his journey through Mexico in the late 1860s. Evans was part of a group of American dignitaries invited by the Mexican government to celebrate the opening of a new railroad connecting Mexico City with the port of Veracruz. Evans takes the reader on a tour of Mexico's tropical regions, describing the natural beauty, the people, and the customs he encounters along the way.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a travelogue by Col. Albert S. Evans describing his journey through Mexico in the late 1860s. Evans was part of a group of American dignitaries invited by the Mexican government to celebrate the opening of a new railroad connecting Mexico City with the port of Veracruz. Evans takes the reader on a tour of Mexico's tropical regions, describing the natural beauty, the people, and the customs he encounters along the way.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition with matching dates to Title page and CR page. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt device to front and gilt lettering to spine. This copy is Very Good. End papers have been replaced and spine professionally repaired at spine ends. Covers are rubbed and somewhat spotted. Tips are modestly rubbed.Title page has two small library stamps , but NO other library markings. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Published by Subscription Only, stated. Otherwise unmarked, crisp , and tight with modest toning Two pages ads to the rear. Quite uncommon in this First Edition. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. blue cloth binding with gold lettering. 370pp. some minor wearing to extremeties. biding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. Ernest Narjot (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. With numerous engravings. Published by subscription only. A. L. Bancroft & Company, San Francisco. Book is clean and tight. No dust jacket issued. Green boards with gilt eagle on front and gilt lettering on spine. 518 pages plus 4 page advertising section in back. Shelfwear along board edges.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Original embossed green cloth with gilt title on spine and emblem on front. 518 pp. illustrated with engravings. Portrait frontis of author No ownership or other markings. Tight binding, hinges sound. Only touch of wear to head and tail of spine and corners. A bright and atractive copy of this scarce book. Ships within 24 hours. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. dj: none. book: leather spine & points, back hinge solid, f hinge creaky. the leather on the lower point f cover has been skinned. corner torn off feps & title page. missing marbled fep. page edges marbled. miraculously the corner from the title page is still there. great illustration opposite page 96 where two swine have pulled out their revolvers and are casually shooting sea lions on the beach. it's a good thing the moon bats out there passed all those gun control laws. Language: eng.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. The scarce first edition of American explorer Albert S. Evans's account of his travel to Mexico. The scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates, alongside numerous further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.Evans provides an account of his 1869-1870 trip through Mexico, describing the landscape, people and local customs of Mexico so as to present a fascinating view of nineteenth-century Mexico through the eyes of an American.With two pages of advertisements to the rear.Evans worked as a journalist for many years, and served on the staff of the Governor of California during the Civil War. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Significant fading to cloth of back strip, and head of rear board. Bumping to spine head and tail. Losses of cloth at back strip head and tail, and tail of rear joint. Tail of front joint starting, with board tenderly held. Rear hinge strained, and somewhat tender. Internally, firmly bound. Significant handling marks to first few leaves, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. Re-cased in quarter bound custom tan-leather spine over marbled boards, 518p, [4] ads. Eight plates including frontispiece, as well as numerous illustrations in-text. Light foxing, o/w a fine copy in new attractive binding.Albert S. Evans was an American journalist and travel writer. Our Sister Republic is his first travelogue. The second, A La California: Sketches of the Golden State (1873) was published posthumously after his death in 1872. "In a land where nature has lavished all her wealth with tropical prodigality, where the scenery is grand and beautiful beyond description, and every step is over historic ground, and amid scenes around which romance of centuries has accumulated, I could not fail to see much to interest the reader and make the story of such a journey worthy of perusal.". Fay & Cox (illustrator).…

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First edition. First edition. Illustrated. 518 pp + [4] pp. of advertisements. 1 vols. 8vo. Includes an introductory letter from William H. Seward, with whom he travelled. Reading, in part: "I have practiced in regard to Mexico, since my return to the United States, the same delicacy which I expect a friend whom I have been entertaining to practice when he has left my house. For this reason I cannot sanction either your observations or your deductions. I am at liberty, however, to say that your details of our travels are full and accurate; your account of the resources and capacities of the country is not exaggerated; your pictures of Mexican society with be thought by the public too highly colored: I think that your error lies on the other side." A fascinating view of nineenth-century Mexico through the eyes of an American. Palau: 84809 Original cloth. With the stamp of Historian and Harvard Librarian Justin Winsor on title page. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. About fine, with minor wear at top of spine and some fading to the gilt on spine Illustrated. 518 pp + [4] pp. of advertisements. 1 vols. 8vo.…

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LeatherBound. Zustand: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1871 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 533 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 533.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 536 pp. Englisch.