Album de Lima y Sus Alrededores
by [Peru]
- Used
- Condition
- Very good.
- Seller
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Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States
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About This Item
[Lima, 1900. Very good.. 210pp. Oblong quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled paper-covered boards. Minor rubbing and scuffing to edges and boards. Handsome bookplate to front pastedown, occasional very minor foxing. A delightful viewbook and commercial directory of Peru published in Lima at the turn of the 20th century. The monotone and sepia-toned photographs and photocollages picture numerous buildings, interiors, street scenes, storefronts, and more mostly in Lima but also in Callao, Chorrillos, Barranco, and Miraflores. An Index of the "Vistas de Lima" provides a description for the photographs, though almost all of the photographs are captioned beneath the image. The photographs are printed on the rectos of the work, while most of the versos of each leaf contain full-page advertisements for a wide variety of businesses in the various cities, including banks, mercantile firms, importers, breweries, milers, and numerous others. A healthy percentage of the versos are printed with a commercial directory of Lima, as well as the membership list of the Bolsa Comercial, providing a snapshot of the economic life of Peru at the time. No copies in American institutions. OCLC records just two copies worldwide, one in Peru and the other in France.
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Details
- Bookseller
- McBride Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4112
- Title
- Album de Lima y Sus Alrededores
- Author
- [Peru]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- [Lima
- Date Published
- 1900
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
McBride Rare Books
Biblio member since 2018
Dobbs Ferry, New York
About McBride Rare Books
We specialize in American history, focusing on unique and eclectic materials such as archives, broadsides, vernacular photography, and interesting or unusual imprints. Particular fields of interest include Western Americana and Latin America.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...