South America and the Pacific; comprising a journey across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima, and Panama; with remarks upon the Isthmus.

First edition. With 4 engraved folding maps, 5 lithographed plates and a folding table. 2 vols. 12mo. Original blindstamped and pictorial brown cloth, gilt, boards somewhat marked and spines slightly faded, otherwise very good. Minor damp-staining to two corners of the map at the end of vol. 1, a few of the plates slightly spotted and dusty; interior pages and other plates generally clean and fresh. xii, 314; viii, [2], 352, 4ads. pp. London: Henry Colburn,

Peter Campbell Scarlett (1804-1881) was a British diplomat, who first arrived in South America as "paid attaché to Brazil" (ODNB) in 1834. For a significant part of 1835 and 1836 he undertook the excursion described in the present book; a journey that passed through Argentina, Chile, Peru and Panama.

The appendix of volume one contains information on the Falkland Islands. The second volume devotes a number of pages to William Wheelwright and his, at that time newly founded, Pacific Steam Navigation Company, which was the first enterprise to employ steam ships for commercial traffic in the Pacific Ocean.

Borba de Moraes 779; Sabin 77449.

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