Live auction - Lot 687
[Guatemala]
Mémoire contenant un aperçu statistique de l'état de Guatemala [...].
Brussels, Lesigne & Cie, 1840
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: [ii]-viii-viii-158-[2 blanks]-34-[2 blanks]-xi-[1] pp., 7 pl. (quite sev. fox., some soiling, staining, marg. dam., pl. with fox. and some with min. def.).
Contemp. calf, marbl. paper on boards, gilt flat spine, leather title label (worn, some def.).
Rather rare description from an European point of view of Guatemala in the mid-19th century. Ill. with 7 lithographs (of which 3 folding plates), including some maps and some depictions of traditional costumes.
Prov. Ownership stamp. - Mod. bookpl. (R. Rickaert).
Joined: Catecismo para uso del pueblo acerca del protestantismo, compuesto pol el cardenal Cuesta Arzobispo de Santiago. Ponce-Puerto Rico, A. Cargo de Martinez, 1869. 12mo: 95-[2] pp. (cut short, min. fox., min. soiling). Contemp. half purple shagreen, marbl. paper on boards, gilt flat spine (bit worn., min. def.). Bound with: 1. Abrégé de ce que tout chrétien doit savoir, croire et pratiquer. Mechelen, E.-F. Van Velsen, 1860. 12mo: 16 pp. (cut short, min. soiling). - 2. Le concile par demandes et par réponses. Mechelen, E.-F. Van Velsen, 1869. 12mo: 16 pp. - 3. Instruction importante. S.l., s.n., s.d. 12mo: 20 pp. (some soiling). Prov. Libr. stamp. (2 vol.)