Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LIMA--1792.) Mercurio peruano de historia, literatura y noticias públicas. Volumes IV and VII only. 4 folding tables. [15], 307, [1]; [1], 298, [7] pages. 4to, contemporary patterned calf, minor wear; edges tinted red. Lima: Niños Huérfanos, January-April 1792 and January-April 1793

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"Colonial Spanish America's finest periodical"--Woodbridge, page 47. Medina, Lima 1744; Palau 165186; Sabin 47935 ("An important work . . . to illustrate the topography and local history of Peru, as well as its arts, agriculture, mines, natural history, manners, etc.")