WALSH, Rev. Robert.- Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829.- London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davies, 1830.- 2 vols.: il.; 21 cm.- E. Robert Walsh (1772-1852), Irish priest, traveler and historian, chaplain of the British embassies in Saint Petersburg, Constantinople and, finally, in Rio de Janeiro, where he stayed for 200 days, having traveled through the hinterland to find out about the living conditions of black slaves. The collation of each of the volumes is as follows. vol. I: XV, [1 br.], 528 p.: 1 unfolded map, 9 lithographs; vol. II: XII; 541, [1] p.: 1 unfolded map, 10 lithographs. The two folding maps, at the beginning of each volume, represent “Plan of the city of Rio de Janeiro” and “Map of the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Geraes”. Copy with slight browning and handling, but complete, according to the index. English heraldic ex-libris (cut out): Cornwall. Contemporary Bindings, English made, full sheepskin, with slight wear, borders on the covers, gold tooling on the spines and rools on the squares. Marbled edges, just like the paper of the endpapers. Borba de Moraes, 933 (with extensive news).