Lot 253
  • 253

Neun, Henrique

Estimate
3,500 - 5,000 USD
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Description

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Album de Carácas y Venezuela ... Primer Tomo. Año 1877-1878. Caracas: Litografia de "la Sociedad," [1877]



Oblong 8vo (9 x 12 3/4 in.; 228 x 324 mm). Lithographic title and 40 lithographed plates each within an elaborate monochrome floral frame; some marginal soiling and occasional spots, a few plates lightly browned, two plates a bit short at lower edge without loss. Publisher's maroon quarter cloth and gold-stamped turquoise boards with title on upper cover and publisher's name on lower cover, by C. Hennig; corners torn, edges rubbed.

Condition

some marginal soiling and occasional spots, a few plates lightly browned. Publisher's maroon quarter cloth and gold-stamped turquoise boards with title on upper cover and publisher's name on lower cover, by C. Hennig; corners torn, edges rubbed.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, a fine copy, in the original binding, of this compendium of views of Caracas and Venezuela by one of the foremost practitioners of lithography in that region. A facsimile of this edition was published in 1968 with a forward by Rafael Pineda.