Squier, E[phraim] G[eorge]. Der centralamerikanische Staat Nicaragua in bezug auf sein Volk, seine Natur und seine Denkmaeler. Nebst einer ausführlichen Abhandlung über den projectirten interoceanischen Kanal. [...] Ins Deutsche übertragen von Eduard Hoepfner und mit einem Vorworte begleitet von Carl Ritter.

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First German edition of this important monograph on Nicaragua (first published in 1851). The American engineer, archaeologist, diplomat and travel writer E. G. Squier (1821-88) was made U.S. ambassador to the Central American Republics in 1848; as such, he was principally involved with the negotiations to build a canal through the Isthmus of Panama - a plan that was not to be realized until 1906. "Squier not only excavated many antiquities, but also endeavoured to give a complete picture of the physico-geographical as well as social and ethnographcal conditions of the countries he visited" (cf. Henze).

Untrimmed copy; some browning to wide blank margins; slight edge defects (also to plates). Provenance: from the collection of the Königsberg-born geographer, meteorologist, and geologist Hans-Peter Kosack (1912-76), long active in Landshut, with his stamp to title and reverse of plates.