A short history of spain.
London.
John Murray, 1828.
First edition.
8vo.
In two volumes. xii, 501pp, [1]; viii, 626pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting brown and black morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, with splitting to joints. Light scattered spotting.
The first edition of a history of Spain composed by English travel writer and illustrator Maria Graham (1785-1842), latterly Lady Callcott.
Her reputation as a great traveller began in 1821: left stranded in South America after the death of her husband, Callcott chose to reject the English colonies, living among the Chilean people for a year, before travelling to the newly independent kingdom of Brazil. Her account of the Valparaíso earthquake became the first paper published by a woman in the Transactions of the Geological Society of London. This volume, her first published under the name Calcott, followed a lengthy honeymoon with her second husband, Augustus Wall Callcott, to Germany, Italy and Austria.
£ 125.00
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Her reputation as a great traveller began in 1821: left stranded in South America after the death of her husband, Callcott chose to reject the English colonies, living among the Chilean people for a year, before travelling to the newly independent kingdom of Brazil. Her account of the Valparaíso earthquake became the first paper published by a woman in the Transactions of the Geological Society of London. This volume, her first published under the name Calcott, followed a lengthy honeymoon with her second husband, Augustus Wall Callcott, to Germany, Italy and Austria.
