Diccionario Topographico, Historico, Descriptivo da Comarca do Alto-Amazonas

Lourenco da Silva Araujo e Amazonas

Verlag: Typographia Commercial de Meira Henriques, Recife, 1852

Beschreibung

First edition. 363pp. An unusual an important early work on the Upper Amazon by Lourenço da Silva Araújo Amazonas, a military officer who also wrote the first novel on the Amazon, Sima, in 1854. This earlier work is an encyclopedia of both natural history and anthropology, and is an early example of Brazilian printing in Recife. Frequently cited in academic studies on the Amazon, there are few institutional holdings of the original. Sabin 81099. Bound in quarter leather, externally chipped and worn. Partial front free endpage is bound to half-title. Errata sheet at rear partially reinforced. Binding holding but some signatures extruding. Pages toned and slightly brittle. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003255

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Diccionario Topographico, Historico, ...

Verlag: Typographia Commercial de Meira Henriques, Recife

Erscheinungsdatum: 1852

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1st Edition