Robertson, John Parish, and William Robertson

FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, 8vo (187 x 115mm.), (vol.1) [4], vii-xxvii, 360pp.; (vol.2) [2], v-x, [2 blank], 342; (vol.3) [2], v-xvi, 400pp., large folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, 2 engraved plates, contemporary dark blue half calf over marbled boards, spines gilt, double red labels

Colonel Douglas Mercer, heraldic book label; Sidney Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire, armorial bookplate

Sabin 71964 (calling in error for 2 maps)

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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John Parish Robertson “is best remembered for Letters on Paraguay… co-authored with his brother William. These detailed though far from disinterested epistolary accounts of their experiences in South America, especially in Paraguay, became standard sources for later historians and at the time were widely admired by a readership fascinated by Francia and his isolated and downtrodden republic” (ODNB).