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Bonnaffe, A.A.
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- Recuerdos De Lima Album Tipos, Trajes y Costumbres Dibujados y Publicados Por A.A. Bonnaffe En Lima 1856 [cover title] ... [With:] Recuerdos De Lima ... 1857 [cover title]. [Paris and Lima: 1856-57]
- paper, ink, leather
2 volumes, folio (17 5/8 x 12 inches; 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches). Without letterpress title or text, as issued, 24 hand-colored lithographed plates (12 in each series) with printed captions, printed on various colored paper, lithographed by Morin, Adam, Gaildreau and others, printed by Lemercier. Publisher's near uniform green and brown cloth, covers bordered in blind and lettered in gilt on the upper covers, expertly rebacked to style. Together in a modern morocco backed box.
Literature
Hiler, p.101; Palau 32375; Bobins, Exotic and the Beautiful I:3. Not in Colas or Lipperheide.
Catalogue Note
RARE COLORPLATE BOOKS DEPICTING THE COSTUME OF PERU.
The plates are captioned as follows: [First series, 1856]: El Cholo Costenõ; La Chola Quesera; El Heladero; La Chola Frutera; El Biscochero; La Chola Rabona; La Tapada (de noche); El Indio de la Sierra; La Tapada; La Chola de la Sierra; La Tapada (Saya y Manto) [1]; La Tapada (Saya y Manto) [2, i.e. the same title as the preceding plate but an entirely different image]. [Second series, 1857]: La Zamacueca; La Zamba (a la procesion); El Capeador; Chorrillos. Traje de Bano; El Panadero; La Plazera; El Arriero; La Chichera; El Aguador; La Lechera; El Velero; La Caleza.
No letterpress title or text was issued with the plates and only these two parts were ever published.
Sets of both the first and second series are seldom encountered together.