BOSSI, Capitán Bartolomé.

Viage Pintoresco por los Rios Parana, Paraguay, Sn. Lorenzo, Cuyubá y el Arino tributario del Grande Amazonas con la Descripción de la Provincia del Mato Grosso bajo su aspecto físico, geográfico, mineralojico y sus producciones naturales.

Paris, Librería Parisiense, 1863. In-4°(265 x 182 mm.), XI, 153 pp, 1 f.; stamped full editor's cloth, worn joints. First edition, with a map of the region. More than 30 engravings in and out of text, over the photographs taken by the explorer during his interesting travel. Work dedicated to the Baron of Mauá with the purpose of promoting the exploration and population of th Mato Grosso. Portraits of : Bossi, Herculiano Ferreira Penna, Antonio Claudio Soido, Joaquín Ferreira Sobrinho, Augusto Levergé, Baron of Mauá, the bishop of Cuyubá, Juan Bautista de Oliveira. Views of: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Corrientes, Asunción, Sugar Loaf, Olimpo's Fort, Coimbra, Curumbá, Cuyubá, Scenes in the rivvers, Guaycurúes', Apiacas' , and Parisis' indians, explorers, etc. Paper with some foxed. Borba de Moraes, 113. Sabin, 6462. Santos Gomez, 522.

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