Jun 03, 2014 - Sale 2352

Sale 2352 - Lot 159

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
GARCIA CUBAS' OUSTANDING MEXICAN ATLAS (MEXICO.) García y Cubas, Antonio. Atlas pintoresco é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. 13 double-page chromolithographed plates, (lacking title). Large folio, (615x420 mm), later 1/2 brown morocco, minor split at head and foot of back strip; plates exceptionally clean and bright. An attractive copy. 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; Phillips, Atlases, 2686.