An exceptionally rare travel guide, complete with folding map, produced by English Language Rio-based publisher A. J. Lamoureux
Hand Book of Rio de Janeiro
The Rio News. A. J. Lamoureux & Co, Rio de Janeiro, 1887.
Small octavo, 204pp, [20]. With nine plates including frontis, and folding map. Contemporary ownership inscription to title, dated 1888.A little shaken with some gathers coming loose, one detached, spine cracked and split though with lettering still visible.
List of plates:
Rio de Janeiro from Ilha das Cobras (Frontis); Sugar Loaf Harbour entrance (20-21); View from Icarahy Nictheory (20-21); Santa Theresa from Castle Hill (48-49); Palace of S. Christovao (48-49); Avenue of Palms (88-89); Statue of D. Pedro I (88-89); The Gavea from Dois Irmaos (144-145); Rua do Imperador, Petropolis (144-145).
This matches the copy held at Yale University Library.