Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, contenant des notions exactes et peu connues sur la situation physique, morale et politique de ce pays

BULLOCK William
Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, contenant des notions exactes et peu connues sur la situation physique, morale et politique de ce pays
Alexis Eymery, Paris 1824, in-8 (12,5 x 20m) and one atlas atlas in-8 landscape format(20 x 26,5 cm), (4) III, LXXII, 364 pp & (4) 370 pp., (2) and a large atlas in-8 landscape format, 11 pp., 2 volumes, publisher's binding
First French edition. The first English edition preceded it by a few months. The atlas is made up of a portrait of the author, 2 folding maps of Mexico, 12 lithographed plates (view of Mexico, Veracruz, Puebla, and sculptures), and 5 lithographed plates of costumes, finely colored (the plate of the two horsemen has been omitted).
Extremities a little rubbed. Scratches to covers of volume I.
A generally good and fresh copy.
Publisher's original binding. Small lacks to headpieces. One costume plate detached. Marginal worming not touching any of the plates.
Before traveling to Mexico twice to buy gold and silver mines and a great number of objects he displayed to the public in London, William Bullock was an antiquary and naturalist who assembled some 32,000 objects, for which he made a museum. They were later exhibited in the Egyptian Hall in Picadilly. This collection was dispersed by auction in 1819, before his trip to Mexico. Bullock gives a detailed account of this voyage, from which he returned with a variety of animals and notes; it includes numerous descriptions of Mexican customs, but also the monuments, fauna and flora, and politics of the country.