Jun 06, 2019 - Sale 2512

Sale 2512 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(MEXICO.) García y Cubas, Antonio. Atlas Geográfico, Estadístico é Histórico de la República Mexicana. 33 lithographed maps and plates on 32 double-page sheets bordered with descriptive text, 4-page Suplemento and 18-page Noticia Cronologica at rear. Folio, 21 1/2x14 1/2 inches, contemporary quarter calf over marbled paper boards, moderately worn; original hand-coloring in outline; light scattered foxing, minor worm track at some places of the gutter, small inkstamps of "Leopoldo Jimenez, Ingeniero" throughout, a few unobtrusively placed to map rectos. Mexico: José Mariano Fernandez de Lara, 1858

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A beautifully lithographed atlas of Mexico produced in Mexico. The mapsheets of each state and territory are abundantly referenced with text and statistical tables. An honest, complete copy of which Sabin estimates only 300 were printed. Phillips, Atlases, 2683; Sabin, 26554.