Explorations and Adventures in Honduras, Comprising Sketches of Travel in the Gold Regions of Olancho,

New York: Harper, 1857.

and a Review of the History and General Resources of Central America. Engravings, 2 maps, one large and folding. 588pp. 8vo, modern green cloth, edge of one corner worn, ex-lib, cloth lightly soiled, folding map has some small tears to margins or the ocean along folds with no loss of text, some left margins of folding map are chipped, tear in map expertly repaired. New York: Harper, 1857. First Edition

Author gold mined in California from 1849 to 1850. "In the summer of 1854 he sailed as agent of the Honduras Mining and Trading Company to explore the gold bearing regions in the almost unmapped wilds of eastern Honduras. The record of these seven months of colorful journeying is preserved (in this work)...Soon after his return to San Francisco in 1855, he received the appointment as consul to Honduras, an office he held most of the time until 1874." Dictionary of American Biography, XIX, page 646. The large folding map is of Eastern Honduras. The single page map is of Central America. Ex liibris from the Library Company of Philadelphia with their deaccession mark.

Binding: Hardcover
Language: English

Price: $300.00

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