Black hard cloth with the unclipped dust-jacket
A clean and tight copy
Paul-Émile Botta and Austen Henry Layard
shallow bowing to upper board
Publisher's green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine
Travels in the Free States of Central America: Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador Works on Paper Black hard cloth with theLondon: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First English edition. Two volumes bound as one. 8vo. pp xvi, 320; xii, 253 pp. Folding coloured map, folding cross section showing proposed canal, bound as an Eton College leaving gift. Bound in green polished calf with ornate gilt spine. double fillets around outside of boards, red morocco label; tips of corners rubbed. Ink gift inscription to first free endpaper. Marbled pastedowns and page