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Hadfield, William; Ouseley, W. Gore (illus.); Hotham, Charles (illus.).
Brazil, The River Plate and the Falkland Islands; with the Cape Horn Route to Australia including Notices of Lisbon, Madeira, The Canaries, and Cape Verds.
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London;
Date of Publication: 1854
Stock Code: 12587
First Edition. Octavo, pp. [2], vi, 384. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Don Pedro II, 2 maps (of 3) of which one fold-out, and numerous illustrations from the South American Sketches of Sir W. Gore Ouseley and from the drawings of Sir Charles Hotham. Brown quarter-morocco; spine on four raised bands, gilt titles to spine; marbled paper-covered boards; green marbled end-papers. Spine lightly sunned and rubbed; slight shelf-wear to edges of boards. Front hinge cracked but firmly holding. Scattered light foxing; ink stain to top edge of frontispiece spreading along top edge to p.48 affecting upper margin only, and another to pp. 377-384, with associated loss to tip of upper corner; minor damp-stain to edge of frontispiece. A good copy. First edition of the author’s first work, describing his first two years in South America. William Hadfield (1806-1887) was the first Secretary of Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and founder of the South American Journal. Hadfield was born in Liverpool but became a long-time resident of Brazil, opening up the first steamship agency in Buenos Aires in 1852. £95.00