Author: Bonifacio del Carril
Title: Monumenta Iconographica: Paisajes, Ciudades, Tipos, Usos Y Costumbres de la Argentina 1536-1860
Description: Buenos Aires, Emece Editors, 1964. First edition. Leather. A striking iconographic work limited to 1500 copies, illustrative of prominent Argentinian art from 1536 to 1860. The first edition of this work. Complete in two large paper volumes. Limited to one thousand five hundred sets, this number 994. Compiled by Bonifacio del Carril with biographical notes by Anibal G Aguirre Saravia. In the original Spanish. Volume of plates with two hundred abd two plates over 192 pages, most in colour. Collated, complete. With extensive biographical notes and descriptive text of all plates featured to text volume. This includes a coloured frontispiece. A striking iconographic work illustrative of the history of Argentina from 1536 to 1860 through a series of stunning reproductions of most important paintings and prints from the period, depicting Argentinian landscapes, cities, uses, ad customs. Lacking the original slipcase. In the original publisher's uniform quarter calf bindings over cloth covered boards. Externally smart with light marking to boards. minor damp mark to upper outer corner front and boards plates volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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