Rambles By Land and Water In Cuba and Mexico by BM Norman, 1845, 1st Ed.

Description: Rambles By Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico, Including a Canoe Voyage Up the River Panuco, and Researches Among the Ruins of Tamaulipas, by B. M. Norman, Author of Rambles in Yucatan. New York: Published by Paine and Burgess. New Orleans: B. M. Norman, 1845. FIRST EDITION. 216 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt pictorial embossed cover and gilt title on spine. Engraved vignette title page ahead of full title page. Illustrated with 15 additional cuts and plates. Spine worn with splitting of the cloth along its edges. Wear to extremities and corners. Binding holding tight. All endpapers present. Inner hinges look good. All illustrations present. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Not ex-library. No waterstaining. Tiny owner's stamp. Clean and complete. Please see pictures for additional insight. SABIN 30570. From Wikipedia: Benjamin Moore Norman (December 22, 1809 – February 1, 1860) was an American book dealer and writer who benefited from the success of John Lloyd Stephens's book, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán. He was a beneficiary of a public offer by the author to return to the Maya region and further his studies. He initiated, on his own and anticipating Stephens, a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote about it.[1] Norman's "Rambles in Yucatan" had immediate success, five editions being printed, the last in 1849. Based on his success with it, Norman initiated a new series of travels that led him to Cuba and eventually to HuastecaTamaulipeca, producing another work entitled, Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico, published in 1845.From this last trip he brought to the United States a collection of archaeological pieces from Huasteca which were eventually donated to the Brooklyn Museum. The archeologist Herbert J. Spinden, in his monograph Huastec Sculpture and the Cult of Apotheosis, makes reference to the pieces and includes biographical dates of Norman.[1]

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