Rough Notes taken during Some Rapid Journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes.
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1827. 264 pp. 12mo. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards. First American edition. A very good copy, joints and corners rubbed, period gift inscription on free front endpaper, light scattered foxing. Sabin 31134n. Field 674. Amer. Imprints 29183. Palau 112644 (1826 ed). Spain & Spanish America I, 322. Item #34970
"This work obtained for its author the soubriquet of “Galloping Head,” from the manner in which he scoured across the Pampas. It contains descriptions of the life of the savage Guachos, and the fearful atrocities of the Salteadores, both of the Creole or Mestizo race, and the Indians of the Pampas," Sabin. "Se ocupa extensamente de los indos Guachos y de la ciudad de Buenos Aires," Palau (VI, p. 528).
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