Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826. With some acount of the mines in that country
London: John Murray, 1828. 2 volumes on one. Thick, small 8vo, modern 3/4 brown cloth, red leather label, corners bumped, scattered light foxing, preliminary blank page is chipped in right margin. London: John Murray, 1828. First Edition Captain George Francis Lyon lived in Mexico as one of the commissioners of the English Compania de Real del Monte, a silver mining company. On his way back to England, the ship he was on was wrecked and all his papers and mineral..... More