Property from the Estate of
ALAN L. WEINER
CASTRO, CASIMIRO, J. CAMPILLO, L. AUDA and G. RODRIGUEZ. México y sus Alrededores. Coleccion de Monumentos, Trajes y Paisajes dibujados al natural y litografiados por los artistos Mexicanos C. Castro [et al.]... bajo la direccion de Decaen. Mexico: Decaen, 1855-1856. Large folio, 443 x 315 mm. (17 7/16 x 12 1/2 in.), publisher's cloth-backed black paper boards, covers blind-embossed to an overall design of swirling violets on leafy stems, upper cover with title and date 1862 lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, quite worn, lower cover rubbed, corners and extremities badly chipped, free endleaves creased, some very minor marginal worming to extreme outer margins, scattered light foxing, mostly very minor, affecting about half of the plates. FIRST EDITION, half-title, letterpress title, text (pp. [3]-37, lithographed title, 42 tinted unnumbered lithographed plates including lithographed title and one duplicate plate (Abbey no. 13), the Spouting Fountain plate without the title printed on the plate, 4 of the plates each with two subjects, 7 plates partly colored, all lithographed by Decaen, captions in English, Spanish and French. Abbey Travel 672 (without text and listing 38 plates, misnumbered to 39); Colas 547 (31 plates); Lipperheide Md 17; Sabin 48590 (noting 18 plates); Palau 167505 (28 plates).
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CASTRO, CASIMIRO, J. CAMPILLO, L. AUDA and G. RODRIGUEZ. México y sus Alrededores. Coleccion de Monumentos, Trajes y Paisajes dibujados al natural y litografiados por los artistos Mexicanos C. Castro [et al.]... bajo la direccion de Decaen. Mexico: Decaen, 1855-1856. Large folio, 443 x 315 mm. (17 7/16 x 12 1/2 in.), publisher's cloth-backed black paper boards, covers blind-embossed to an overall design of swirling violets on leafy stems, upper cover with title and date 1862 lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, quite worn, lower cover rubbed, corners and extremities badly chipped, free endleaves creased, some very minor marginal worming to extreme outer margins, scattered light foxing, mostly very minor, affecting about half of the plates. FIRST EDITION, half-title, letterpress title, text (pp. [3]-37, lithographed title, 42 tinted unnumbered lithographed plates including lithographed title and one duplicate plate (Abbey no. 13), the Spouting Fountain plate without the title printed on the plate, 4 of the plates each with two subjects, 7 plates partly colored, all lithographed by Decaen, captions in English, Spanish and French. Abbey Travel 672 (without text and listing 38 plates, misnumbered to 39); Colas 547 (31 plates); Lipperheide Md 17; Sabin 48590 (noting 18 plates); Palau 167505 (28 plates).