Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches

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1857. (Hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. 630pp. Three quarter black leather with pebbled black boards and gilt lettering on the spine. All edges speckled, fold-out map, illustrated frontispiece, two color plates, black and white and color illustrations, diagrams, notes, appendices, tables, maps. The covers and spine are worn in places, the front hinge is cracked, the front endpaper is stained, there is a previous owner's name on the first page of the preface, page 55 is torn with the loss of four lines of text at the bottom and page 57 has been torn away diagonally with the bottom half of the page lost. "The popular notion of Brazil is, to a certain extent, delineated in the accompanying side-illustrations. Mighty rivers and virgin forests, palm-trees and jaguars, anacondas and alligators, howling monkeys and screaming parrots, diamond-mining, revolutions, and earthquakes, are the component parts of the picture formed in the mind's eye". Time Period 19th Century. Locale: Brazil. (History--South America, Anthropology, History--South America). N° de ref. del artículo 153064

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