Author: ROBERTSON, Parish.
Title: A visit to Mexico, by the West India islands, Yucatan and United States, with observations and adventures on the way.
Description: London, Published for the author, 1853. 2 volumes. Original embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed frontispiece and folding map. XX,II,331; (6),478 pp. First edition; subscriber's copy with list of subscribers. -- William Parish Robertson went to Mexico, with his daughter, in 1848 as a special commissioner to negotiate a settlement for Mexican securities held by British investors. On his return in a party of prominent Mexicans in October 1849, he traveled through the United States via Mobile, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Sprinfield, Niagara Falls, Washington and New York . He was pleased with what he had observed, except for slavery. The brief comparisons of certain American and English institutions mark Robertson as a discriminating observer' (Clark III, 398). Sabin 72016; Palau 271033.

Keywords: America Caribbean Islands Mexico slavery