Mexique en 1823: ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle- Espagne.

Paris: Alexis-Eymery, 1824. With Eighteen Plates of Nineteenth-Century Mexican Views and Costumes

B[ULLOCK], William. Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle- Espagne. Contenant des notions exactes et peu connues sur la situation physique, morale et politique de ce pays; accompagné d'un atlas de vingt planches; par M. Beulloch, propriétaire du Musée mexicain établi à Londres; ouvrage traduit de l'anglais par M***. Prédédé d'une introduction, et enrichi de pièces justificatives et de notes; par Sir John Byerley Paris: Alexis-Eymery, 1824.

First edition in French. Two octavo text volumes and one oblong quarto atlas volume. [2], iii, [1, blank], lxxii, 364; [4], 360, [1, errata], [1, blank]; 11 [1, blank] pp. Atlas with engraved frontispiece portrait, two folding maps, and eighteen lithographic plates, of which two are folding and six are hand-colored.

Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spines lettered and tooled in gilt and blind in compartments. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Atlas volume expertly and almost invisibly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Minor wear to extremities. Text and plates lightly foxed, with some minor dampstaining, especially to first and last few leaves. Pages xxxix-xl in Volume I on a stub, possibly supplied as a cancel by the publisher. A very good copy of this scarce work.

Bullock's 1822-1823 trip to Mexico in search of antiquities for his museum also yielded this fine work of nineteenth-century travel literature. Published the same year as the first English edition, the first French edition contains two additional hand-colored plates not included in the English edition. This set also contains a portrait of the author, not noted by Abbey in either the French or English copies. Abbey, Travel, 667.

HBS 66817.

$3,000.