Letters Written During A Residence Of Three Years In Chili Containing An Account Of The Most

by Samuel Burr Johnston

$7,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Erie, Pa. R. I. Curtis, 1816. First edition, 12mo, pp. 5 , 14-205, 1 ; text foxed and spotted, original boards becoming loose, spine largely perished. First edition and very rare. Henry Wagner's Bullion to Books states that Johnston was the printer of the first newspaper in Chile, La Aurora. Wagner tells the story of how the bibliographer Medina tried to buy the book at a Chilean auction but it went to Carlos Edwards, the owner of the Chilean newspaper, the

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