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Waikna, or, Adventures on the Mosquito shore

Title
Waikna, or, Adventures on the Mosquito shore / by Samuel A. Bard ; with sixty illustrations.
Author
Bard, Samuel A., 1821-1888
Publication
New York : Harper & Brothers, 1855.

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Additional Authors
Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books NjP
Description
[14]-366 p. : ill., plates, map; 20 cm.
Alternative Title
Adventures on the Mosquito shore
Subject
  • Travel
  • Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) > Description and travel
  • Central America > Mosquitia
Genre/Form
  • Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) – 1855 – United States.
  • Embossed cloth bindings (Binding) – 1855 – United States.
Note
  • Added t.p., illustrated.
  • Later editions were published under the title: Adventures on the Mosquito shore.
  • Contains illustrations by John McLenan, engraved on wood by J.W. Orr, D.C. Hitchcock, and A.V.S. Anthony.
  • "Map of Mosquito shore"--p. [12].
Indexed In (note)
  • Hamilton, S. American book illustrators (1968 ed.)
Binding (note)
  • Blind stamped, pictorial, brown cloth binding; title gold stamped on spine.
Contents
Appendix: -- A: Historical sketch of the Mosquito Shore. -- B: Various notes on the topography, soil, climate, and natives of the Mosquito Shore. -- C: Brief vocabulary of the Mosquito language.
LCCN
03019150
OCLC
  • ocm01320182
  • 1320182
  • SCSB-185471
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library