Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 260

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(LATIN AMERICA.) Bonnycastle, Richard Henry. Spanish America; or, A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain. 2 folding maps, folding aquatint plate. xxxix, (2), 336; v, [1], 359 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, original boards, lacking backstrips, front boards coming detached; moderate foxing, closed tear to North American map, minor dampstaining; uncut. London, 1818

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first edition of a "very useful summary of the condition of Spanish America at a time when the several colonies began their career as independent states," prepared by a British army officer--Larned, page 443. Palau 32836; Sabin 6333.