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LYON, G. F. JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE AND TOUR IN THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO IN THE YEAR 1826, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MINES OF THAT COUNTRY.
London: John Murray, 1828. 2 vols. in one. First edition. viii, 323, iv, 304 pp. Boards and cloth with paper label. 8vo. Wear to extremities and to label, new endpapers, else very good clean copy. Lyon was commissioner for the British-owned Real de Monte and Bolanos Mining Companies. He travelled from Tampico to Zacatecas and Jalisco to inspect the mining properties, then returned via Mexico City and Vera Cruz. Spending 8 months in Mexico, he gives one of the best and most unbiased pictures of Mexican life at all social levels, including a valuable early description of the Huichol Indians. Plus much detail on the mines and mining processes, and a glossary of Mexican mining terms (pp. 297-304). GRIFFIN 3561: "His journal provides a wealth of detail on mining and mining revenues as well as sophisticated observations on general social and economic conditions." SABIN 42852. GUNN 894.
Offered for US$ 450.00 by: Almagre Books - Book number: 17109
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