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TITLE CONTINUED: The modern travels of the missionaries in the heretofore unexplored mountainous territories, etc. The whole drawn from original and authentic documents, chiefly written and compiled in the Peruvian capital. Appendices describe missions to Caxamarquilla, travels to river Huallago, lake of Gran Cocama in 1790, rivers Maranon and Ucayali, and to Manoa tribes in 1791, travels in mountainous territories, itinerary from Chavin to Chicoplaya. FIRST EDITION 1805, 4to, approximately 275 x 215 mm, 11 x 8½ inches, LACKS DEDICATION LEAF, facsimile inserted, 20 hand coloured stipple and line engravings as called for in plate list, the frontispiece is numbered 18 in the list and has a tissue guard, all other tissue guards missing. Pages: xiv, 1-487 plus errata as last page, Preface has author's name "JOSEPH SKINNER" on final page, bound in half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, a few plates watermarked. Binding slightly rubbed, corners worn at tips, pale foxing to endpapers, title page, index and Errata, pale age-browning to plates and offset to text pages opposite, narrow strip of old paper to inner margin on verso frontispiece, occasional pale stain or spot to margins otherwise a very good copy. See: J. R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography, Volume 2, No. 723; Sabin, Dictionary of Books Relating to America, reprint edition, Volume 2, No. 81615; The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, Volume 1, page 276; Hilaire and Hiler Bibliography of Costume, page 802; Rene Colas, Bibliographie du Costume et de la Mode, page 978, No. 2751. The Hill Collection of Voyages states: "This is an important and much valued book. Before its publication, the English had known relatively little about Peruvian society and its literary accomplishments. The text was taken from copies of El Mercurio peruano, which were captured by the English on a Spanish ship sailing from Callao. This work is the earliest and most lavish English color-plate book relating to Peru and Ecuador, the plates show natives of Lima and Quito. The appendix contains much interesting information about generations of missionaries to the west coast of South America". MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

First edition; 4to (27 x 22 cm); 20 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, a little trimmed as usual without loss, amorial bookplate to paste-down, mottling to some gatherings, plates fine; contemporary tree calf, gilt flat spine with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges speckled, a little rubbing to extremities, upper board joint split professionally repaired, a very good copy; xiv, 487, [1]pp. A translated abridgement of Mercurio Peruano, a biweekly newspaper published in Lima between 1791 and 1795, a clutch of which fell into the hands of the editor after the capture of the Spanish galleon St. Jago and its treasure (some £133 million in today's money) in 1795. Original authors include Jacinti Calero y Moreira, Hipà lito Unanue, Josà BaquÃjano y Carrillo and Josà Rossi y RubÃ. These young writers belonged to the Society of Lovers of the Country and subscribed to the ideas of the Enlightenment. The translation itself is uneven, but conveys the intent of the authors in their papers and gives a near contemporary account of Lima and Peru at a time when the nation was trying to discover and define its cultural identity. This remains one of the few English works with colour plates on South America. Abbey (Travel), 723; Colas 2751; Lipperheide 1629; Sabin 81615.

London, Richard Phillips, 1805. 4to. Contemporary tree calf (one hinge sl. damaged but firmly holding). With 20 handcoloured stipple-engravings depicting costumes of Peruvian society, natives, bullfighter, llamas, etc. XIV,488 pp. First edition. - Skinner translated portions of El Mercurio Peruano, published between 1791-1795, for this detailed overview of Peru, the young writers belonged to the Society of Lovers of the Country and subscribed to the ideas of the Enlightenment, illustrated with twenty beautifully coloured plates depicting the costume of various segments of Peruvian society, including upper-class ladies, female domestics in Spanish dress, Indian men and women, a bullfighter, etc. The Appendix contains two interesting accounts: History of the missions of Caxamarquilla, with the origin and loss of those of Manoa, intended as an introduction to the recent travels of fathers Sobreviela and Girbal, in the remote parts of Peru. The second account: Interesting notices relative to the entrances made by the monks of the order of St. Francis, into the mountainous territories of Peru, from each of the parts bordering on the Cordillera of the Andes, communicated to the academical society of Lima by father Sobreviela, guardian of the college of Santa Rosa of Ocopa. 'An extensive illustrated reference work on Peru' (Von Hünersdorff II, p.1384). - The earliest, and one of the few English colour-plate book relating to Peru and Ecuador. -Some foxing otherwise fine. Abbey, Travel, 723; Lipperheide I, p.389; Colas 2751; Hiler p.802; Sabin 81615; Palau 315564.