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Berlandier, Jean Luis, 1805-1851 Diario de viage de la Comision de limites que puso el gobierno de la Republica bajo la direccion del exmo. sr. general de division d. Manuel de Mier y Teran [in Spanish]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04131 Author/Creator: Berlandier, Jean Luis, 1805-1851 Place Written: Mexico City, Mexico Type: Book Date: 1850 Pagination: 4 p. of plates ; 23.2 x 15.5 cm. Order a Copy

Written by order of the individuals on the Comision de Limites, Luis Berlandier and Rafael Chovel. Published by the Tipografia de J. R. Navarro. Inscription reads "John R. Bartlett from Jose Salazar, El Paso del Norte, Oct. 1832." Title page also signed by Bartlett. Scientific study of Texas during the colonial period. Berlandier went to Mexico to collect botanical specimens for a group of Swiss naturalists and to accompany General Manuel de Mier y Terán on his scientific expedition to Texas in 1828.

Mier y Terán, Manuel de, 1789-1832
Chovel, Rafael, fl. 1850
Navarro, J.R., fl. 1850
Berlandier, Jean Luis, 1805-1851
Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886

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