(PERU.) Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Johann Jakob von Tschudi. Antiguedades Peruanas: Atlas. 60 chromolithographic and tinted lithograph plates including illustrated title page. Oblong large folio, 16 3/4 x 22 inches, original printed cloth-backed boards, moderate wear; faint dampstaining to inner edge of early plates, minor foxing at edges, plate XXXVIII in tasteful facsimile. Vienna, Austria, 1851
This atlas volume was produced to accompany a landmark collaboration between a Peruvian archaeologist and a Swiss naturalist. It includes eye-grabbing views of pre-Columbian mummies, tombs, artifacts, and more. The lithography was done by Leopoldo Müller and the volume was published by the "imperial de la Corte del estado de Viena." The plates are numbered I through LVIII, plus an additional plate IIa and the title page. Palau 341937; Sabin 71643 ("executed with great care and finely colored").
