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A TRIP TO MEXICO : BEING NOTES OF A JOURNEY FROM LAKE ERIE TO LAKE TEZCUCO AND BACK, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING AND BEING A PAPER ABOUT THE ANCIENT NATIONS AND RACES WHO INHABITED MEXICO BEFORE AND AT THE TIME OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST, AND THE ANCIENT STONE AND OTHER STRUCTURES AND RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES FOUND THERE
by Becher, H. C. R
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
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About This Item
Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. vii,183 pp. plus 20 mounted photographic plates (albumen prints) and 2 lithographic plates (including 1 map). Modern library label on front pastedown. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped pictorially in gilt, t.e.g. Binding bumped at sides and corners, rubbed at extremities; front hinge cracked, one plate neatly detached, some photographs faded, occasional light soiling and light scattered foxing. Overall very good, all tissue guards present.
The author, Henry Cory Rowley Becher (1817-1885), was an English-born Canadian attorney, based for most of his career in London, Ontario. The present work, mostly a diary of his travels to and within Mexico in February and March, 1878, with an extensive appendix, was his only book. He was admiitted to the Royal Geographical Society in the year of its publication.
The map shows the Mexican Railway in 1877, and the other lithographic plate depicts stone hieroglyphics at Copán and written hieroglyphics in Mexico City.
The author, Henry Cory Rowley Becher (1817-1885), was an English-born Canadian attorney, based for most of his career in London, Ontario. The present work, mostly a diary of his travels to and within Mexico in February and March, 1878, with an extensive appendix, was his only book. He was admiitted to the Royal Geographical Society in the year of its publication.
The map shows the Mexican Railway in 1877, and the other lithographic plate depicts stone hieroglyphics at Copán and written hieroglyphics in Mexico City.
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- Title
- A TRIP TO MEXICO : BEING NOTES OF A JOURNEY FROM LAKE ERIE TO LAKE TEZCUCO AND BACK, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING AND BEING A PAPER ABOUT THE ANCIENT NATIONS AND RACES WHO INHABITED MEXICO BEFORE AND AT THE TIME OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST, AND THE ANCIENT STONE AND OTHER STRUCTURES AND RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES FOUND THERE
- Author
- Becher, H. C. R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Willing and Williamson
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1880
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Americana, Canadiana, travel, exploration, history, anthropology, ancient cultures, religion, Aztecs, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Canada, photography, photographs, map, illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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