Guide Brazil River Plate (4 results)

Hardcover. pp. 112. Small square 16mo. Bound in green cloth with vibrant red lettering to front boards and spine. Sixty-four black and white photographs. Also features timetables, table of distances, two fold-out panoramic views of Oporto and The Madero Docks, Buenos Ayres [sic], one colour fold-out map showing the routes being undertaken superimposed in red lines over a world-map. Thirteen blank memo pages to the rear of the title intended for the use of passengers. No detectable flaws, contents clean and unmarked; near fine and housed in very good+ original glassine dustjacket with a few very minor chips along edges. A small guidebook issued by The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for prospective and "intended" travellers for a trip on The "South American Route" beginning in Southampton proceeding to Spain and Portugal, Canary Islands, Teneriffe, Las Palmas, Rio De Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres etc. The guidebook provides general descriptions of the people, history, customs and practices of the respective locales. There is also a "list of books recommended for passengers" available for order and accompanied with respective prices. A very amusing and uncommonly detailed travel book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Square 16mo, 112 pp, plus [13] blank pages at the back for memoranda and log; many photographic illustrations, including 2 folding panoramas, a folding color map and a table of distances. Early owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; short tear to the fold of one parorama; all else very good or better in original green cloth. The "South American Route" begins in Spain and Portugal, proceeding to Madeira, Teneriffe, St. Vincent, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio, Santos, Sao Paolo, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, etc. Descriptive information (history, commerce, landscape, tourist excursions, etc) is provided on each locale. There is also a list at the end of more than 50 books on South America recommended for the education of travelers, including works of history and geography, fiction, travel narratives, dictionaries, emigrant's guides, and statistics on commerce and natural resources. An uncommon guidebook; 7 copies located in OCLC.

Guide to the South American Route for passengers. 109pp. many photos in text plus pull-out panoramas of Vigo, Oporto, Maduro Dock Buenos Ayres plus colrd. Fldd. Atlantic route chart. 13x15c. Hardcover, ex. cond.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 112pp, phots, folding map, timetables, blank log pages. Clean and tight internall, hint of foxing to map- borders only, it light indentations to front board-auction string? 200g.