Other details
- Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Published:
New -York : Harper & Brothers ..., 1842 (8vo)
- Language:
English
- Cited In:
Sabin 91297
- Notes:
"There were many reissues from the same plates, with only slight variation in the collations. Harper & Brothers, the New York publishers of the work, put out at least eleven issues of a "Twelfth Edition" between 1844 and 1871."--Sabin.
- Local Notes:
RBC copy: wanting volume two. Title page is a cancel. This copy is extra-illustrated by bibliophile John R. Bartlett. Title page signed by John R. Bartlett; title page verso note, "This copy contains a number of drawings in sepia and India ink, copied by me from the original sketches, made by Mr. Catherwood, that gentleman having lent me his portfolio for the purpose. New York 1842. J.R.B." Extra-illustrations include 18 original wash sketches (mostly in sepia) by Bartlett after Catherwood's drawings of scenery in Guatemala and Central America, plus 11 prints from contemporary works on Mexico. Binding: contemporary full black sheep elaborately ornamented in gilt, inner gilt dentelles. Vol. 1: viii, [2], [9]-424 p.
- OCLC Number:
5964291
