COLOMBIA - (WALKER, A.).

Colombia: being a geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Political Account of that Country, adapted for the general reader, the Merchant, and the Colonist. 2 vols.

London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. 8vo. Bound in 2 fine red longgrained hmorocco with clothsides and uncut. CXXIV,707;(4),782 pp. , 2 engraved portraits (Bolivar and Zea). A few scattered minor brownspots, clean and fine copy. Sabin calls for a map, which is not present here.

Scarce first English edition, it was issued the same year in Spanish with the title: "Colombia: siendo una relacion geografica, topografica...". This is the first major description of the new country, The Republic of Colombia, founded in 1820.

Order-nr.: 28453