Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes, and of a residence in Lima, and other parts of Peru, in the years 1823 and 1824. By Robert Proctor, Esq.
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Publication
1825 - Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, Edinburgh
Language
English
Word Count
101,500 words, Guess
Page Count
406 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL58595434M
- OCLC Control Numberbib_fict_4117273
Description
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xx, 374. Half calf, with Jane Payne Collier’s signature on title page and a pen and ink map of Peru, drawn by Proctor and dated 12 June 1825, tipped in.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Lively account of a trip to Peru by Robert Proctor, who visited the country with his wife Polly, the sister of John Payne Collier. Negotiations for publication with his Edinburgh publisher Archibald Constable were made by Collier on behalf of his cousin and brother-in-law. Collier may have helped Proctor polish the text as well. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 121; II, C1.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117273" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
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