Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part I, A-C

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Lot 28
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Andrews, Captain Joseph

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Andrews, Captain Joseph
  • Journey from Buenos Ayres... to Potosi, thence by the Deserts of Caranja to Arica, and subsequently, to Santiago de Chili and Coquimbo. London: John Murray, 1827
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (190 x 110mm.), (vol.1) [2], xxxii, 312pp.; (vol.2) viii, 322, half-titles, later ownership inscriptions on titles, contemporary olive green pebble-grained cloth, manuscript paper title labels on the spines, slipcase, one paper label worn

Literature

Borba de Moraes p.37; Sabin 1509

Catalogue Note

"Captain Andrews was sent out during the Mining mania, by one of the numerous London Associations, and in these two volumes gives a very clear, sensible, and modest account of his journey and subsequent proceedings in execution of his trust. They are well worth any one's reading both for the entertainment to be derived from them, and the information they occasionally convey" (Sabin).