Davie, John Constanse LETTERS FROM PARAGUAY: DESCRIBING THE SETTLEMENTS OF MONTE VIDEO AND BUENOS AYRES... WRITTEN DURING A RESIDENCE OF SEVENTEEN MONTHS IN THAT COUNTRY. LONDON: G. ROBINSON, 1805 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (214 x 123mm.), viii, 294pp., [ii pp. adverts], half-title, contemporary half calf, full gilt red morocco spine, brown speckled boards A personal account of travels in Argentina in 1797 through letters to a friend in Somerset. "After his [Davie's] return to Buenos Ayres, it is certain that he went to Conception, in Chili; as he was last heard of from that place, in the year 1803: but whether he lost his life in any insurrection of the natives, or was imprisoned by the government in consequence of his correspondence being detected, is unknown" (introduction).
Davie, John Constanse LETTERS FROM PARAGUAY: DESCRIBING THE SETTLEMENTS OF MONTE VIDEO AND BUENOS AYRES... WRITTEN DURING A RESIDENCE OF SEVENTEEN MONTHS IN THAT COUNTRY. LONDON: G. ROBINSON, 1805 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (214 x 123mm.), viii, 294pp., [ii pp. adverts], half-title, contemporary half calf, full gilt red morocco spine, brown speckled boards A personal account of travels in Argentina in 1797 through letters to a friend in Somerset. "After his [Davie's] return to Buenos Ayres, it is certain that he went to Conception, in Chili; as he was last heard of from that place, in the year 1803: but whether he lost his life in any insurrection of the natives, or was imprisoned by the government in consequence of his correspondence being detected, is unknown" (introduction).
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