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CATHERWOOD, FREDERICK. Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. 25 tinted lithographed plates, captioned, and printed on heavy paper, with the map, chromolithographed title page by Owen Jones, dedication to John L. Stephens, and 24 pages of letterpress text. Folio, 500x355 mm, sympathetically rebound in 1/2 brown morocco over green cloth, with original gilt-lettered green moiré cloth front cover bound-in at back; a few plates with close margins, upper left corner of title repaired, corner of plate 25 repaired, light dampstaining at edges proceeding into margins in later plates. London: F. Catherwood, 1844
Undoubtedly one of the most desirable plate books on Latin American monuments. Catherwood, an accomplished architect and traveller, went to Central America with John Lloyd Stephens from 1839-41. There they worked to document the previously lost civilization of the Maya, and later produced this, one of its most glorious depictions.first edition. edition of 300. Tooley 133.
