Author: TORNERO, Recaredo Santos.
Title: Chile ilustrado. Guia descriptivo del territorio de Chile de las capitales de provincia, de los puertos principales.Valparaiso, Librerias i ajencias del Mercurio, 1872. 4to. Double-tinted lithographed frontispiece with portrait of president Frederico Errazuriz by Lasnier and printed by Lemercier, 9 double-tinted lithographs lithographed by Lasnier or F. Sorrieu and printed by Lemercier of some important Chilean people and buildings, and more than 200 engravings in the text: views, landscapes, building, natives, costumes, etc. Contemporary grained cloth.
Description: IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 495, [1] pp.First and only edition of the first lavishly illustrated description of Chile, by Recaredo Santos Tornero (1842-1902), a Chilean editor and journalist. He covers several historical, topographic and political aspects, all extensive and richly illustrated. The more than 200 woodcuts and 10 lithographs show not only important Chilean people such as president Federico Errázuriz, but also views of cities, landscapes, buildings, indigenous people, costumes etc. This historical, political, industrial, social and statistical review of Chile received an award at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.Tornero was born in Valparaiso to a family of printers, and his father Santos Tornero owned the first public bookstore in Chile. From 1867 to 1870 Recaredo succeeded his father as director of the newspaper publishing house El Mercurio established in Valparaiso in 1827. During a short stay in Paris in 1871, he contacted the Paris printing firm Lemercier for the lithographs in his Chile ilustrado. The work is dedicated to Vicuña Mackenna (1831-1886), who was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician, and at that moment mayor of Santiago (1872-1875).With an owner's inscription on the first silk endpaper ("Valparaiso, Agosto 27, 1878, Camilo Bayle") and another by the same hand ("Camilo Bayle") on the second endpaper. Binding slightly rubbed, corners bumped. Some very slight browning, some of the flyleaves a little worn, otherwise in very good condition.l Palau XXIII, 334589.
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Title: Chile ilustrado. Guia descriptivo del territorio de Chile de las capitales de provincia, de los puertos principales.Valparaiso, Librerias i ajencias del Mercurio, 1872. 4to. Double-tinted lithographed frontispiece with portrait of president Frederico Errazuriz by Lasnier and printed by Lemercier, 9 double-tinted lithographs lithographed by Lasnier or F. Sorrieu and printed by Lemercier of some important Chilean people and buildings, and more than 200 engravings in the text: views, landscapes, building, natives, costumes, etc. Contemporary grained cloth.
Description: IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 495, [1] pp.First and only edition of the first lavishly illustrated description of Chile, by Recaredo Santos Tornero (1842-1902), a Chilean editor and journalist. He covers several historical, topographic and political aspects, all extensive and richly illustrated. The more than 200 woodcuts and 10 lithographs show not only important Chilean people such as president Federico Errázuriz, but also views of cities, landscapes, buildings, indigenous people, costumes etc. This historical, political, industrial, social and statistical review of Chile received an award at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.Tornero was born in Valparaiso to a family of printers, and his father Santos Tornero owned the first public bookstore in Chile. From 1867 to 1870 Recaredo succeeded his father as director of the newspaper publishing house El Mercurio established in Valparaiso in 1827. During a short stay in Paris in 1871, he contacted the Paris printing firm Lemercier for the lithographs in his Chile ilustrado. The work is dedicated to Vicuña Mackenna (1831-1886), who was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician, and at that moment mayor of Santiago (1872-1875).With an owner's inscription on the first silk endpaper ("Valparaiso, Agosto 27, 1878, Camilo Bayle") and another by the same hand ("Camilo Bayle") on the second endpaper. Binding slightly rubbed, corners bumped. Some very slight browning, some of the flyleaves a little worn, otherwise in very good condition.l Palau XXIII, 334589.
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Price: EUR 1600.00 = appr. US$ 1738.96 Seller: A. Asher & Co. B.V.
- Book number: 81BC2UE3T91C
- Book number: 81BC2UE3T91C