Author: Ballou, Maturin M.,
Title: History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics.
Description: Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. Early edition. Hardcover. Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Minute tears to spine ends. Spine a bit slanted. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. The slightest of foxing to the first and last few pages. ; "Being a political, historical and statistical amount of the island, from it first discovery to the present time". Author Ballou was from Boston and later worked as the first editor for the Boston Globe. He was an extensive traveler and this book was his second one on Cuba (and his second travel book). Before he wrote travel books he had a career as a fiction writer. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; viii, 230, 10 pages. Very Good-.

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