Jun 23, 2022 - Sale 2610

Sale 2610 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(MEXICO.) Antonio García y Cubas. Atlas Pintoresco é Histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Tinted lithographic title-page (with decorative copyright on verso), and 13 double-page chromolithographed socio-statistical maps with relative illustrations. Large folio, 24 1/2x15 1/2 inches, contemporary morocco-backed gilt-blocked cloth boards, spine caps chipped and other light wear; scattered edge soiling, a few plates with small splits at lower center fold, two short margin tears. Mexico, 1885

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"The maps and illustrations bordering them are superb. García Cubas was the preeminent Mexican cartographer of the nineteenth century" -- Rumsey 2693.