Author: SQUIER, E(phraim) G(eorge).
Title: Der centralamerikanische Staat Nicaragua in Bezug auf sein Volk, seine Natur und seine Denkmaeler. Nebst einer ausführlichen Abhandlung über den projectierten interoceanischen Kanal. Trans. by Eduard Hoepfner, with a preface by Carl Ritter.
Description: 1854 With engr. folding frontispiece, 4 maps (2 folding), 24 unn. plates, most of them engr. by Robert Kupfer (4 handcolored, 2 printed in colors), and VIII num. folding plates at the end. XVIII, 570 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half cloth. Leipzig, Dyk, 1854. German edition of Squier's "Nicaragua; its people, scenery, monuments, and the proposed interoceanic canal" (1852). The description of a journey made by the author offers a wealth of information about all aspects of the country, including native languages, and a short history of Central America since its independence from Spain. One chapter is devoted to the projected waterway between the Bay of San Juan del Norte and the Pacific. - Occasional foxing or browning. - Sabin 89957; Palau 321 786; Engelmann 211. AMERICANA: LATIN AMERICA ;

Keywords: AMERICANA: LATIN AMERICA ;


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