Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FALKNER, THOMAS, S.J. A Description of Patagonia, and the Adjoining Parts of South America . . . and Some Particulars relating to Falkland's Islands. 2 folding engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin (lightly offset, the first partly separated along fold). [4], iv, 144 pages. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 red morocco, spine attractively gilt; occasional toning and minor foxing, 19th-century auction and bookseller's catalogue descriptions mounted on verso of title and recto of Advertisement leaf; institutional bookplate (with release stamp). Hereford: C. Pugh for T. Lewis in London, 1774
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first edition. Originally from Manchester, Falkner (1707-84) studied medicine in London, converted to Catholicism in Buenos Aires, and spent over 3 decades as a Jesuit missionary in Paraguay and Patagonia. Field 521; Palau 86485; Streit-Dindinger III, 284.