A View of South America and Mexico, comprising their History, the …

NILES, John Milton. A View of South America and Mexico, comprising their History, the political Condition, Geography, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. of the Republics of Mexic….

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NILES, John Milton. A View of South America and Mexico, comprising their History, the political Condition, Geography, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. of the Republics of Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Peru, the United Provinces of South America and Chili, with a complete History of the Revolution in each of these independent States … Two Volumes in One. New York: H. Huntington, Jun. 1826.

Small 8vo. Contemporary American mottled sheep, spine lettered and ornamented in gilt; pp. 204; 239, engraved portrait of Simon Bolivar as frontispiece in volume one; very light rubbing to binding, a little browned in places as usual, offsetting from endpapers to portrait; a good copy of a scarce and important title.

One of two editions published the year after the first printing of this early and seminal ananlysis of the Anti-Colonial revolutions south of the United States. One of the first books on the South American revolutions, written by a Connecticut senator.

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