Ruins of an Indian City. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, being a draft (with corrections) of a July 29th entry in Lyons Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826
by LYON, George Francis, Captain R.N
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[Mexico, 1826]. About 250 words. 2 pp. 12 x 8 inches, a few blemishes, mounted along upper edge only, on the distinctive blue paper of the album compiled by John Forbes Royle (1799-1858). George Francis Lyon FRS (1796 1832), English naval officer and explorer of Africa and the Arctic. This manuscript is an original draft (unsigned, but identified as autograph) of pages 223-225 of Lyons Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826, beginning An intelligent Cura having given Mr. Tindal and myself some information respecting the ruins of an ancient Indian city about fourteen leagues to the southward of Zacatecas, on the road to Villa Nueva, we took advantage of a holiday and rode out to see them ...
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- Ruins of an Indian City. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, being a draft (with corrections) of a July 29th entry in Lyon’s Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826
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- LYON, George Francis, Captain R.N
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- Used
- Place of Publication
- [Mexico, 1826]
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