Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 352

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
[MOXO Y DE FRANCOLI, BENITO MARIA DE.] Entretenimientos de un Prisionero en las Provincias. One engraved additional title (of 2), 3 plates. 2 volumes. 4to, modern vellum; large paper copy; a bit of foxing in Volume II, otherwise quite clean; partly erased library stamp on additional title, bookplate of Alberto Parreño on front pastedown. Barcelona, 1828

Additional Details

"A valuable set of dissertations upon the natives and history of the New World, written by Don Benito Maria de Moxo, Archbishop of Charcas, whose papers fell into the hands of his nephew, and were printed by the latter under his own name without sufficient acknowledgment"--Sabin 51215. "Muy rara"--Palau 183810.