Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(PERU.) Eder, Francisco Xavier. Descriptio provinciae moxitarum in regno peruano. Folding map, 9 engravings on 7 folding plates. xviii, 383 pages. 8vo, early boards, lower rear corner worn away, otherwise minor wear; minor worming and dampstaining to lower corner of last 100 pages, with a bit of marginal corner wear to the plates. Buda, Hungary: Typis Universitatis, 1791
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first edition, one of only 300 published per Medina. Eder was a German-Hungarian Jesuit who lived among the Moxos of Peru from 1749 until the expulsion. This account was edited by Paul Mako von Keren-Gede and released posthumously. Medina, BHA 5456; Palau 78352; Sabin 21830. Not seen at auction since 1946.