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Associated Faculty Pr Inc, 1971-06-01. Hardcover. Good. .

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Associated Faculty Pr Inc, 1971. hardback in very good condition. volume 1 only. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Associated Faculty Pr Inc, 1971. hardback in very good+ condition. volume 1 only. Hardcover. Very Good.

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2 Volumes: viii+323 pages; iv+304+[i ad] pages with glossary. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") in original paper covered boards and spine title labels as originally issued. From the library of Professor George M Foster. (Sabin:42852; Hill page 186) 1st edition.G F Lyon was an English traveler, born in Chichester, England, in 1795; died at sea in October, 1832. He entered the British naval service in 1809, was present at the attack on Algiers by Lord Exmouth in 1816, and in 1818 was commissioned to accompany Joseph Ritchie on his tour of exploration into central Africa. Ritchie died in Fezzan, and Lyon returned to England, after encountering many dangers and privations, which he described in his Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa (London, 1821). In 1821, in command of the Hecla, he accompanied Captain William E. Parry on his arctic expedition, publishing on his return The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon (1824). In 1824 he sailed in command of the Griper' with the mission of exploring Melville… Read More

John Murray, 1828-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Rebacked, gilt ruled. Good binding and cover. Marbled end pages. Gilt ruled. Book plate of C.R. Richmond. Sabin 42852. Gunn 894. Hill p. 186. Spain & Spanish America II, 302. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25456. "Captain Lyon set out for Mexico in January 1826, as one of the commissioners of the Real del Monte Mining Company. This work contains an account of his personal adventures throughout Mexico during eight months.

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1828. First edition. [8], 323, [1] ; [4], 304 pp. Printed by Richard Taylor. 2 vols. 8vo. Original grey boards, with paper labels with price "Two Vols. 16s.". Uncut. Signed by Thomas Thistlethwayte (of Southwick Park Hants.) on title-page and his stamp on front pastedown. Neat repairs at heads of spine. Some rubbing to extremities. First edition. [8], 323, [1] ; [4], 304 pp. Printed by Richard Taylor. 2 vols. 8vo. Captain Lyon set out for Mexico in January 1826 as one of the Commissioners of the Real del Monte Mining Company, and on his way back from New York was wrecked at Holyhead and lost all his papers. This work contains an account of his personal adventures throughout Mexico during 8 months and his comments on the mining industry there. Sabin 42852; Hill, p. 186

London: John Murray, 1828. First edition. [8], 323, [1] ; [4], 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vol. Original boards, pink paper spines, with paper labels with price "Two Vols. 16s." 3/4 inch nick at head of spine of Vol. I and loss at middle o0f spine in Vol. II, otherwise very nice, uncut. Bookplates of John Torr Harmer. First edition. [8], 323, [1] ; [4], 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vol. Sabin 42852

[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 Lyon’s 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 ...”