Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain
Subtitle: containing researches relative to the geography of Mexico, The extent of its surface and its political division into intendancies, The physical aspect of the country, The population, the state of agriculture and manufacturing and commercial industry, The canals projected between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean, The crown revenues, The quantity of the precious metals which have flowed from Mexico into Europe and Asia, since the discovery of the new continent, And the miliary defence of New Spain : with physical sections and maps, founded on astronomical observations, and trigonometrical and barometrical measurements
By: by Alexander de Humboldt ; translated from the original French by John Black
Edition: Third edition.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Published: 1822
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Description and travel; Statistics; Mines and mineral resources
Work titles: Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.