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the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs
another photo-gravure portrait (of Sir Alfred Jones)
Paul-Émile Botta and Austen Henry Layard
Travels in the Free States of Central America: Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador Works on Paper shallow bowing to upper boardLondon: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First English edition. Two volumes bound as one. 8vo. pp xvi, 320; xii, 253 pp. Folding coloured map, folding cross section showing proposed canal, bound as an Eton College leaving gift. Bound in green polished calf with ornate gilt spine. double fillets around outside of boards, red morocco label; tips of corners rubbed. Ink gift inscription to first free endpaper. Marbled pastedowns and page