Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes

by Francis Bond Head, Captain

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Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1827. 12mo, pp. xii, 1 , 14-264; front free endpaper excised, otherwise complete with the half title; contemporary calf-backed boards; small cracks starting at the joints, but in all, very good. The preface discusses the rise and fall of English mining companies in the region. The author was himself a mining company representative, and he accounts for the commercial failure as ignorance of the English about the country in which they

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