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The South American cook book : including Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies

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    "Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of The National Geographic Society for the National Geographic Magazine Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Washington, 1939. Arthur H. Bumstead, Chief Geographer." Submaps: Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands; Saint Thomas; Isthmus of Panama; Jamaica: Cuba: Bermuda Islands. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, kilometers. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.

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    This collection contains approximately 450 articles, offprints, pamphlets and other works, covering a span of 1812 to 1894, collected by the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and forming part of his library. The items are contained in 430 envelopes and cover 17 different categories of material: General; Periodicals, Congress Reports; Anthropology, Archaeology, Folklore; Biography; Geography, Travel; Linguistics; Literature; Medicine, Psychology; Religion, Philosophy; Science, Pure, Natural, Applied; Sword; Africa; Americas; Asia; Europe; Pacific, Australasia. Some of the works include manuscript annotations by Burton as well as correspondence sent to him and insertions of articles and clippings. This is a subsection of the Sir Richard Francis Burton Library Printed Material Collection in the Rare Books Department. Those items can be searched as a whole under the heading: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890, former owner or Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896, former owner.

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