‎"COLOMBIA - (WALKER, A.).‎
‎Colombia: being a geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Political Account of that Country, adapted for the general reader, the Merchant, and the Colonist. 2 vols.‎

‎London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. 8vo. Bound in 2 fine red longgrained hmorocco with clothsides and uncut. CXXIV,707;""(4),782 pp. , 2 engraved portraits (Bolivar and Zea). A few scattered minor brownspots, clean and fine copy. Sabin calls for a map, which is not present here.‎

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‎Scarce first English edition, it was issued the same year in Spanish with the title: """"Colombia: siendo una relacion geografica, topografica..."""". This is the first major description of the new country, The Republic of Colombia, founded in 1820.‎