Brief Notes Taken On A Trip To The City Of Mexico In 1878

THOMAS W PRICE

Publication: Privately printed, 1878, NP

N.P.: Privately printed, 1878. First edition. 8" x 5" original green cloth with title stamped in black on the front cover. Presentation copy with photograph of author glued to opposite page. Front and rear endpapers dark brown, 103 pp., dedication, introduction. "This is not a description, much less a history, of Mexico; it claims to be only the notes of a plain business man on what impressed him as of most interest in a trip to and from the City of Mexico, printed for the friends who have inquired of him concerning the country, climate, and people of "Our Next Neighbor." By ship from New York to Havana, on to Progresso and Merida in the Yucatan, Vera Cruz, Orizaba, Puebla, Cholula, Pachuca, the mining district of Real del Monte and Omitlan, and on to Mexico City, Chapultepec, Guadalupe, Tacubaya, and back through Havana. Information on visiting missions, a pyramid, the mining region, children, etc. Covers, spine ends and corners rubbed else a very good copy.

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