Author: D. Waldo Jimenez de la Romera / Joarizti / Mariezcurrena / Xumetra
Publisher: Daniel Cortezo y Ca., Barcelona.
Year: 1887
Size: 24.5 x 17.7 cm, 4to
Reference: Palau 124.470; Pardo de Tavera 1417
España, sus monumentos y artes, su naturaleza e historia. Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas. [Spain: its monuments and arts, its nature and history. Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines]
₱8,800.00
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Description
944 pp., beautiful gilted pictorial red binding with impressive front cover, decorative spine and rear cover, and foredge printing in red; 2 original-colour chromolithographs of Cuba, several photographs and many text xylographic illustrations.
Title printed in red and black. Binding: red publisher’s cloth tooled in gilt and black; page edges red with gilt ornaments. RARE Historical-geographical description of these Spanish overseas possessions among the last to be published before the hand-over to the USA. With more than 350 pages on the Philippines.
Condition
with foxing in first 20 pages and occasionally on other pages, lacking pages 823-824 and 829-830; book block just starting; condition considered when pricing; normally would sell for double the amount.
