CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION CALLED MODERN MEXICO; CONTAINING A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CITY, WITH SPECIMENS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW SPAIN, AND MODELS OF THE VEGETABLE PRODUCE, COSTUME, &c.....
Bullock, William:
London: Printed for the Proprietor, 1824. 28pp. plus folding frontis. Modern half cloth and paper boards, gilt morocco label on front board. Near fine. Bullock, an Englishman, toured the Valley of Mexico in 1823, and mounted an exhibition of his natural history findings, also containing a large panorama of Mexico City, at Egyptian Hall in London the next year. In this pamphlet, intended to accompany the exhibition, Bullock describes the natural history he encountered, and describes the contents of dozens of the cases in the exhibit. The plate shows a scene of visitors examining Bullock's exhibit at Egyptian Hall. The NUC identifies two, and OCLC three, differing versions of this text, all produced in 1824 and each known in only a few copies. We can locate three copies of the present issue, at the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Library of Congress, and the Boston Athenaeum. Rare. SABIN 9136. OCLC 47365564.
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