Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 438

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MEXICO.) Hardy, Robert William Hale. Travels in the Interior of Mexico in 1825, 1826, 1827, & 1828. Folding map of Sonora and the Gulf of California, 7 plates including a plan of the Colorado River. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 morocco gilt, rubbed; shaken, errata sheet loose; bookplate on front pastedown. 4 pages of ads. London, 1829

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first edition. " Hardy . . . investigated the shores of Baja California and the pearl fishery in the Gulf of California on behalf of his parent firm"--Sinkankas 2748. The first survey and chart of the mouth of the Colorado and Gila Rivers. Palau 112277, Sabin 30357.