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Lot 225
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. STEPHENS, John Lloyd (1805-1852). Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. London: John Murray, 1846.
2 volumes, 8vo. 2 lithographed frontispieces, lithographed folding map, numerous lithographed plates. Later tree calf (rebacked, spines somewhat brittle).
"Twelfth edition" (stated on the title-page). According to Sabin, there were several reissues of the first American edition "from the same plates, with only slight variations in the collations. London issues appeared in 1842 and 1843." This included at least eleven issues of a "Twelfth Edition" between 1844 and 1871.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York