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DE RIVERO, Mariano Eduardo and Dr. Juan Diego DE TSCHUDI. Antigüedades Peruanas, Vienna: Imprenta Imperial de la Corte y del Estado, 1851. 2 volumes including 4° (286 x 230mm) text volume and oblong 2° (427 x 557mm) atlas volume. Hand-coloured lithographed architectural title and 59 hand-coloured or tinted plates, tinted lithographed frontispiece in text volume. (Marginal repairs to atlas, a few leaves of text browned, occasional spotting.) Original printed boards, modern slipcase (rebacked, rubbed at extremities). Provenance: Dr. Jur. Jules Maodor, St. Gallen.
FIRST EDITION. Sabin 71643: "A work of great importance on the ethnology and antiquities of Peru. It treats on the history, government, religion, language, science and arts of the Incas prior to the Spanish invasion, and contains the earliest authentic delineation of their architectural and other remains. The plates ... were executed with great care and finely colored." (2)
FIRST EDITION. Sabin 71643: "A work of great importance on the ethnology and antiquities of Peru. It treats on the history, government, religion, language, science and arts of the Incas prior to the Spanish invasion, and contains the earliest authentic delineation of their architectural and other remains. The plates ... were executed with great care and finely colored." (2)
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