(MEXICO) Presente Amistoso Dedicado a las Señoritas Mexicana

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(MEXICO.) Presente Amistoso Dedicado a las Señoritas Mexicanas. 7 plates, text illustrations, and illustrated title page. 8vo, contemporary morocco gilt, moderate wear; hinges reinforced, foxing; early inked bookseller's stamp on flyleaf, bookplate on front pastedown, description tipped in. Mexico: Cumplido, 1847

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The first issue of a literary annual launched at the height of the American invasion. An attractive production with different colored decorative borders for each page. Palau 236608; Sabin 65337 ("A fine specimen of Mexican typography.") Sabin calls for 20 plates, but the book's plate list only calls for 6. No other copies of this first issue known at auction.