MERWIN, Mrs. G.B.]

Three Years in Chili.

New York. Follett, Foster and Company. 1863. Soft cover. 12mo, 18.5cm, viii,158p., original blind decorated diamond grain brown cloth, some foxing, expertly restored, near fine copy, rare. (tgc) ~ Sabin 12808. An American writes of a three-year stay in Valparaiso, Chili as well as the voyage there from New York and back to Boston. Sabin refers to an earlier edition of 1861 by a "Lady of Ohio". Smith M74. "Based on her journal, this is the account of a lady and her family in Chile. Crossing the isthmus is told in interesting detail. Life in south America in the 1850's is graphically described. Item #34573

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