London, printed for Richard Phillips, No. 6 Bridge-Street, Blackfriars,1805.. 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.
