First edition. 4to. Ten duo-tinted lithographic plates (including two portraits) and with 200 engravings in the text. In the original burgundy cloth, spine gilt and with a blind embossed illustration of a railway bridge, with train, on the upper board. Corners worn, gilt decorated spine and joints rubbed. A little sporadic foxing and with some slight marginal marking to some pages. Very good otherwise. x,(ii),495pp. plus errata page. Valparaiso, Librerias I Ajencias del Mercurio, 1872.
With the lithographs by Lemercier of Paris. This is the first book on Chile to be so splendidly illustrated.
