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LYON, Captain G. F. Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826. With some Account of the Mines of that Country.LYON, Captain G. F. Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826. With some Account of the Mines of that Country. London: John Murray. 1828. Two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines ornamented in gilt, contrasting lettering pieces (re backed); pp. viii, 323 (advertisement to verso); iv, 304; one lettering piece chipped, extremities a little rubbed, internally very clean and fresh. First
LYON, Captain G. F. Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826. With some Account of the Mines of that Country. London: John Murray. 1828.
Two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, spines ornamented in gilt, contrasting lettering-pieces (re-backed); pp. viii, 323 (advertisement to verso); iv, 304; one lettering-piece chipped, extremities a little rubbed, internally very clean and fresh.
First edition. Captain Lyon set out for Mexico in January 1826, as one of the commissioners of the Real del Monte Mining Company, and on the way back from New York was wrecked at Holyhead and lost all his papers. This work contains an account of his personal adventures throughout Mexico during eight months. 'His journal provides a wealth of detail on mining an mining revenues as well as sophisticated observations on general social and economic conditions' (Griffin 3561).
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