One of the Most Beautiful Colour-Plate Books of Mexico
The Atlas Pintoresco e Histórico de los Estados...Mexicanos
Printed in Mexico and Illustrated with Maps Throughout
Garcia Cubas, [Antonio]; Atlas; Mexico. ATLAS PINTORESCO E HISTÓRICO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDO MEXICANOS (Mexico: Debray Succ., 1885) First Edition of the atlas. A text volume was issued but is not offered here. Beautifully illustrated with 13 chromolithographs on double page, each with a specialized map of Mexico. The title-page is printed in tinted lithography. Grand Folio (620 x 410 mm), in the publisher's binding of half-green shagreen. A very pleasing and well preserved and handsome copy.
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS OF MEXICO. The atlas is regarded as among the most beautiful books ever produced about Mexico. It contains 13 double-page chromolithograph plates, each with a specialized map of Mexico surrounded by vignettes corresponding to the map, such as archaeology, botany, rivers, mining, volcanoes and mountains, railroads, costumed ethnographic types, etc. Antonio Garcia y Cubas devoted himself to the study of Mexican geography, history and archaeology, publishing a succession of atlases beginning in 1858. The ATLAS PINTORESCO E HISTÓRICO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS can be said to be a culmination of his work in its beauty and comprehensiveness. Phillips, 2686; Chadenat, 7016 |
