(MEXICO) Hardy Robert William Hale Travels in the interior o

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(MEXICO.) Hardy, Robert William Hale. Travels in the interior of Mexico. Folding map of Sonora and the Gulf of California, 7 plates including a plan of the Colorado River. xiii, [1], 540, [4] pages. 8vo, contemporary boards, rebacked with paper in period style; numerous corrections made in pencil; uncut; Thomas Barbour and "KEH" bookplates on front pastedown. London: Colburn & Bentley, 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, and full of political and social observations. Hill 771 (this being his personal copy); Palau 112277; Sabin 30357.