EN AMÉRIQUE LATINE.

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359 pp. First edition. Comprehensive work on Latin America in French. Brown buckram; 3/4 (simulated) brown leather; gilt stamped covers and spine; blue-gray endpapers; black and white photographs throughout; statistics; quotations; heavy luster sheets; ads. Binding tight; boards lightly worn at edges; head and tail of spine wrinkled; corners bumped; book plate (Caisse des Ecoles). Oversize and heavy book (2 kilos) requires an additional shipping charge. Introduction by Pierre Baudin. A scholarly look at the region at the turn of the century. Quoting the text, p. 47: Il serait á la fois banal et prétentieux de vouloir d crire la baie de Rio, alors que les plus illustres voyageurs, comme Bougainville, Cook, Dumont d'Urville, que des écrivains et des savants, comme Arago, Saint-Hilaire, Laplace, Darwin, Agassiz, ont en termes magnifiques vanté son incomparable beauté. Size: 28 x 20 x 3.5 cm. 0.0. N° de ref. del artículo 2189

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