Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 55

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BOLIVIA.) Republica Boliviana. Coleccion Oficial de Leyes, Decretos y Ordenes del Congreso Constitucional y del Gobierno. Volume 1?, numbers 23, 25, 31 and 33 (two copies); Volume 3, numbers 17, 18, 19 (two copies), 22 (two copies), 23 and 24. Together, 13 issues of the official newspaper of the independent Bolivian government. Small folio, unbound as issued; five with tape repairs, one with contemporary ink notations. Modern calf folder. Chuquisaca, 1826-33

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Includes printings of some of Bolivia's earliest laws, with three issues from 1826, Bolivia's second year of independence and the year of the first constitution written by Simon Bolivar. Considered among the earliest examples of printing in Chuquisaca, the first capital of Bolivia (now called Sucre), it includes decrees by Antonio Jose de Sucre and Andres Santa Cruz.