Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(GUATEMALA.) Guatemala por Fernando Septimo, el dia 12 de Diciembre de 1808. Engraved title page, 20 (of 21) plates. 8vo, disbound; engraved title is toned, detached and worn without loss to image, tears to the large folding plate with slight loss, lacking plate #18, lacking final errata leaf, minor dampstaining and wear to some leaves, minor worming, ink spotting to last 4 leaves. [Guatemala, 1809]
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Prepared upon the ascension of Ferdinand VII to the Spanish throne, and documenting the celebrations in Guatemala in his honor. The plates were mostly by Guatemalan artists. Medina, Guatemala 1588; Palau 109493; Sabin 29081. with--another copy of the same work in worn contemporary calf, dampstained and lacking all 21 plates, but with the final errata leaf and with a better copy of the engraved title page.