Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 431

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(VENEZUELA.) Hippisley, Gustavus. A Narrative of the Expedition to the Rivers Orinoco and Apuré, in South America. 8vo, modern library cloth; minor creasing and repair to verso of title page, minor dampstaining. London, 1819

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first edition. Written by a disillusioned English idealist to save his countrymen "from becoming the victims of jealousy, treachery, falsehood, and oppression." Palau 114859; Sabin 31988; Swann N-YHS sale, 6 October 1978, lot 886.