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Viage Pintoresco por los ríos Paraná, Paraguay, (...). 1863.

Viage Pintoresco por los ríos Paraná, Paraguay, Sn. Lorenzo, Cuyabá y el Arino tributario del grande Amazonas. Con la descripción de la Provincia de Mato Grosso bajo su aspecto físico, geográfico, mineralójico (sic) y sus producciones naturales. París. Librería Parisiense. Dupray de la Mahérie. 1863.


Quarto, (26 x 17.5 cm / 10.23 x 6.88 IN), XI pp., Half-title, Frontis, Title page, Blank, 153 pp., 8 plates -and numerous illustrations interspersed in the text-, 1 map, 1 sheet. Morocco binding with cloth spine and gilded titles. Good copy, with foxing. Santos Gómez, n. 522. First edition.


Guided by an entertaining story, we accompany his march through Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Bossi pauses briefly on historical considerations, alludes to the economic potential of each region he visits, describes the unspoiled nature in certain areas, addresses the conflict with some indigenous peoples -particularly with the Guaycurús- and recognizes it in his own words, flees from the exaggeration ready to arouse the attention of the colonizing companies.


Its author, B. Bossi [1819 (?) - 1882 (?)] was a sailor of Genoese origin who arrived in Buenos Aires when he was very young. In 1837 we found him on duty in the Eastern State squad and later he operated his own shipyard. Since 1859 he was commander of the steamship "Pampero" that carried out the race between Buenos Aires and Montevideo, a route that made him sadly famous for an accident that cost 121 people their lives, when his boat caught fire and sank.


Bossi also served as an explorer, journalist, and editor, publishing numerous travel stories.


GHM

AUTHOR BOSSI, BARTOLOMÉ C.

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