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1863236424Paris: Libreria de Firmin Didot Hermanos Hijos y Ca 1863. Frontispiece in Volume One. xxv 745 3; 473 3 pp. 2 vols. Modern brown cloth worming at last 4 leaves of vol. II. Frontispiece in Volume One. xxv 745 3; 473 3 pp. 2 vols. Libreria de Firmin Didot Hermanos, Hijos y Ca unknown books
183930886Guatemala: Imprenta de la N. Academia de Estudios 1839. <br><br>Dated 18 August 1839 five days after Rivera Paz's returning to office. He says that the people of Guatemala with the support of Gen. Carrera and his caudillos have restored him to his right place in government and that he hopes to bring peace and prosperity to the nation.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat locates only the copy in the Chilean National Library; no copy traced via COPAC CCILA or METABASE; there is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched. Irregular inner margin. Light to quite noticeable waterstain running longitudinally top to bottom in one half of the leaf. Lower outer corner damaged with loss of paper due to exposure to moisture away from text. Imprenta de la N. Academia de Estudios unknown books
1865WRCAM41059Paris 1865. 2pp. Sixty-eight plates including forty- one maps and plans many colored or tinted. Lacks four or six plates see note below and the entirety of the accompanying text 81pp. Large folio. Contemporary half calf and red boards spine gilt. Slight worming to imprint on titlepage; publication date effaced. Moderate to heavy foxing to three plates but generally quite clean. Very good. This magnificent atlas by Peru's most eminent 19th-century historian contains numerous maps city plans views groups scenery etc. The author obviously drew inspiration from both Alexander von Humboldt's grand works on America as well as contemporary daguerreotypes from which many of the plates were made. Mariano Felipe Paz Soldan 1821- 1886 was a Peruvian historian and geographer. He was born at Arequipa Peru and one of the stunning plates in the ATLAS is a large folding view of that city. Phillips calls for seventy-two plates while Palau calls for seventy-four; copies on OCLC are listed with seventy-two seventy-three and seventy-four plates. PALAU 215886. PHILLIPS ATLASES 2769. SABIN 59325. hardcover books