MAWE, John. Travels in the Interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country, Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1816, 8vo, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece, 3 folding engraved plates and one folding engraved map (occasional browning), contemporary calf (worn, upper cover detached). [Sinkankas 4272]

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MAWE, John. Travels in the Interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country, Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1816, 8vo, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece, 3 folding engraved plates and one folding engraved map (occasional browning), contemporary calf (worn, upper cover detached). [Sinkankas 4272]

Lot Essay

"A work much valued by historians and geographers as one of the earliest reliable accounts of Brazil under Portuguese colonization, and the first on diamond and gold washings and the manner in which they were conducted." (Sinkankas)

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