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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. MULHALL, Michael G[eorge] & Edward T[homas]. Handbook of the River Plate Republics, comprising Buenos Aires and the provinces of the Argentine Republic and the Republics of Uruguay and Paraguay. London & Buenos Aires, 1875. 8vo. vii+ 432 + [2] + 46p. With folding map, folding plan of Montevideo and textual plan of Buenos Aires. Publisher s green cloth with Argentine arms gilt-stamped on front cover and title lettered in gilt on spine; joints and corners worn. First published in 1863, this very comprehensive manual was designed as an aid for immigrants. It was also the first English book printed in Argentina. Its last chapter (pp401-404) deals with the Falkland Islands. The editors, initially engaged in sheep farming, also founded the Buenos Aires Standard , the first daily newspaper in English. Good copy with old collector s stamp on title. Naylor 138; Palau 18 4416.

xvi, 192,160, 200, 38 pp. [adv] pp. Sm. 4to. Volume I (all published). The authors published the much smaller "The River Plate Handbook, guide, directory and almanac for 1863". In the preface of our volume, the authors called this an "Improved and enlarged edition" (Preface dated March 17, 1869), the first of five more editions that would run until 1892, and were intended to encourage immigration from Europe. It was one of the earliest English language books published in Argentina. Michael George Mulhall (1836-1900), "journalist and statistician, . was educated for the priesthood. and in 1858 went to South America where his brother, Edward Thomas Mulhall (1832-1899) was working as a sheep farmer. The brothers set up a printing and publishing house in Buenos Aires from which they issued the Standard and River Plate News, a four-page weekly newspaper. In 1861 they relaunched it as a daily (the first such in the English language in South America)" ODNB. Inked inscription laid in loose, "W.S. Jackson with kind regards of Isaac Kich / Buenos Ayres, Feb. 9th, 1872." Sabin 51268. Very good, spine edges rubbed, scattered foxing, page 165 in Section C trimmed closely at fore edge with loss of one letter in each of two lines. Later half navy morocco over tan cloth, five raised bands with gilt rules, red spine label titled in gilt First edition thus; Improved and enlarged edition.