Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 92
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(MEXICO.) Williams, J. J. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 14 tinted lithographed views, plate, folding table, folding map. 8vo, publisher's cloth, stained, backstrip defective; front hinge cracked; plates relatively clean; faint library stamp on title. Sabin 3480; Palau 375712. New York, 1852

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This work was commissioned by the Tehuantepec Railroad Company of New Orleans to propose an interoceanic railway. The multi-colored tinted lithographed plates were accomplished by Sarony. A separate atlas volume was issued for this work, not present here.<