BECHER, H.C.R.
A Trip to Mexico, Being Notes of a Journey From Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and Back.
First Edition of H.C.R. Becher's A Trip to Mexico
Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880.
$850.00
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Item Number: RRB-149600
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First edition of this nineteenth-century travel narrative through Mexico. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, vignette of the Aztec calendar stamped in gilt to the front panel. Illustrated with 13 tissue-guarded mounted albumen photographs, a lithographed map, and a plate of hieroglyphics. In very good condition.
H. C. R. Becher’s 'A Trip to Mexico' is a distinctive nineteenth-century travel narrative that combines epistolary structure with early documentary photography to capture Mexico’s cultural and geographic diversity for an English readership. Written as a series of letters dispatched from various points along Becher’s journey, the text offers descriptive accounts of landscapes, archaeological sites, and urban life, while the accompanying original photographs—many taken directly from life—provide visual documentation of railways, volcanic terrains, Aztec monuments, pyramids, palaces, and the environs of Mexico City and Guadalupe.
A Trip to Mexico, Being Notes of a Journey From Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and Back.
$850.00
In Stock