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Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes, and of a residence in Lima, and other parts of Peru, in the years 1823 and 1824. By Robert Proctor, Esq.

by Robert Proctor

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xx, 374. Half calf, with Jane Payne Collier’s signature on title page and a pen and ink map of Peru, drawn by Proctor and dated 12 June 1825, tipped in.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Lively account of a trip to Peru by Robert Proctor, who visited the country with his wife Polly, the sister of John Payne Collier. Negotiations for publication with his Edinburgh publisher Archibald Constable were made by Collier on behalf of his cousin and brother-in-law. Collier may have helped Proctor polish the text as well. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 121; II, C1.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:jus

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