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IMPORTANT WORK ON CALIFORNIA AND PEARLING IN THE GULF HARDY, ROBERT WILLIAM HALE. Travels in the Interior of Mexico. 6 lithographed plates
IMPORTANT WORK ON CALIFORNIA AND PEARLING IN THE GULF HARDY, ROBERT WILLIAM HALE. Travels in the Interior of Mexico. 6 lithographed plates including a plan of the Colorado River and a folding frontispiece map of Sonora and the Gulf of California. 8vo, contemporary calf with gilt- and blind-stamped borders, rebacked in lighter calf with red morocco spine label, covers scuffed. first edition. Sabin 30357. London, 1829
- Notes: first edition. "'Hardy came to Mexico... as commissioner for the General Pearl and Coral Fishery Association of London,' that is, he investigated the shores of Baja California and the pearl fishery in the gulf of California on behalf of his parent firm."--Sinkankas 2748 (not having seen a copy). Also an important piece of Americana, it is the first survey and chart of the mouth of the Colorado and Gila Rivers. Eberstadt 109; Sabin 30357; Palau 112276.
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