(TRAVEL) Gustav von Tempsky Mitla A Narrative of Incidents a

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(TRAVEL.) Gustav von Tempsky. Mitla: A Narrative of Incidents and Personal Adventures on a Journey in Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador. Folding hand-colored map, 14 lithographed plates (including 5 chromolithograph views.) xv, [1], 436 pages. 8vo, later 1/2 calf, front board detached, backstrip chipped; inscribed "with the author's compliments" on flyleaf, later owner's inked stamps on title and flyleaf. London, 1858

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First edition, inscribed by the author. Abbey, Travel 665; Palau 329979. Provenance: Gift from the author to his wife's uncle John Zephaniah Bell (1794-1883) of London per inscription on flyleaf with explanatory note; stamps of later owner Walter Lind.