TANCO ARMERO (Nicolas). Viaje de Nueva Granada a China y de - Lot 223

TANCO ARMERO (Nicolas). Viaje de Nueva Granada a China y de China a Francia por Nicolas Tanco Armero con una introducción por Pedro Maria Moure. Nueva Granada, San Thomas, Jamaica, Cuba, Estados-Unidos, Inglaterra, Francia, Malta, Egipto, Ceylan, permanencia en China, regreso a Paris por la Palestina, 1851-1858. Paris, Imprenta de Simon Raçon, 1861. In-8, L-568 p., contemporary brown half-chagrin, spine decorated with nerves (spine rubbed, small tear at tail cap, sporadic sustained foxing). First edition prefaced by Pedro Maria Moure consul, writer and governor. Journey by journalist Nicolas Tanco Armero from New Granada (now Colombia) to China and from China to France, the only Colombian of the time to have traveled to the Far East, to organize Chinese emigration to Cuba. (Cordier, Sinica, 1017; Palau, XXII, 327164).