Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands; with the Cape Horn Route to Australia. Including notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verds... Paraguay of which country much new information is supplied; as also of The Region of the Amazon - William Hadfield, Sir. W. Gore Ouseley (Illustrator), Sir Charles Hotham (illustrator) 1854 - Longman, London - First Edition, First Issue A superior first edition, first issue, of this comprehensive and important work on South America, in the original publisher’s cloth, one large folding colour map of South America and smaller folding map of the Falklands, illustrated throughout with wood-engravings, and an engraved frontispiece portrait of Don Pedro II.

Knowledge of William Hadfield’s life is fragmentary, born in 1806 he entered commercial life in South America at an early age and became secretary of the South American and General Steam Navigation Company. In this, his first book he states that he had for a long time been a resident of Brazil, and describes the port of Recife as it was in 1821, suggesting that he had first been there at the age of fifteen. He became the first secretary of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway but in 1847, as a consequence of a levy on his mercantile goods, was driven into bankruptcy. In 1863 he founded in London
The South American Journal and Brazil and River Plate Mail which he edited until his death in 1887.
  First edition, first issue, without the 16 pages of advertisements to the rear and the smaller map of Pernambuco inserted in later copies at page 100. Correct as issued (Sabin, Bibliotheca Americana, 29486).

Reference: Howgego,
Exploration 1800-1850, H2.

Octavo (book size 22.8x15.3cm), pp. [2] vi 384. In publisher’s patterned green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge roughly trimmed, others untrimmed, yellow coated endpapers.
  Condition: Near fine,inner hinges tender, light spotting to verso of coated endpapers, frontis reattached, in fine cloth.   Ref: 110894   Price: HK$ 5,000