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Album Mexicano
C. Montauriol, 1885.
MEXICO - Album Mexicano. Colección de paisajes, monumentos, costumbres y ciudades principales de La Republica. Mexico City: C. Montauriol, c.1885.

Rare plate book of daily life in 19th-century Mexico. The attractive views comprising this work are the work of Casimiro Castro, A. Gallice, M. Mohar, E. Perez and J. Alvarez. Identified as "volume one," it is all that was ever published. Only four copies recorded by RBH. Palau 5553; Mathes, Mexico on Stone, p. 60.

Oblong quarto (243 x 351mm). 28 lithograph plates in color or sepia (a little toning and fingersoiling). Contemporary red quarter morocco (neatly rebacked preserving much of the original leather).

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