Squier, Ephraim George (E. G.), Travels in Central America, Particularly in Nicaragua: With a Description of Its Aboriginal Monuments, Scenery and People, Their Languages, Institutions, Religion, & c., D. Appleton & Co. 1853

Title: Travels in Central America, Particularly in Nicaragua: With a Description of Its Aboriginal Monuments, Scenery and People, Their Languages, Institutions, Religion, & c.
Author: Squier, Ephraim George (E. G.)
Illustrator: Sarony and Major; J. W. Orr; James M’Donough
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Year published: 1853
Place of Publication: New York
Book Condition: Good
Size: 8vo
Binding: Cloth

Notes: Travels in Central America, Particularly in Nicaragua: With a Description of Its Aboriginal Monuments, Scenery and People, Their Languages, Institutions, Religion, & c., illustrated by numerous maps and coloured illustrations, by E. G. Squier, Late Charge-D’Affaires of the United States to the Republics of Central America (2 vols., New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1853), pp. xxii, [2], 424; [2], iv, 452. 8vo. Ex library with usual markings. Reissue of author’s Nicaragua: its people, scenery, monuments, and the proposed interoceanic canal (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1852). Publisher’s green cloth binding with embossed decoration on boards and spine, gilt lettering and sculptural motif also to spine. Complete with illustrations: vol. 1: 1 colour lithograph; 9 b/w (some tinted) lithographs; 1 fold-out map; 37 b/w wood engravings; vol. 2: 3 colour lithographs; 12 b/w (some tinted) lithographs; 1 fold-out map; 27 b/w wood engravings. Binding bumped and chipped, library shelfmark on heel in white pen, joints tender, pages very slightly browned and foxed.