Voyages a travers le monde et l’industrie des nations (coloured version)

A$275 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Paris: Amable Rigaud, c. 1863. Folio, plum cloth with fine morocco spine gilt-decorated in compartments, all edges gilt, 292pp., scattered foxing, silk endpapers (marked), 16 coloured lithographed plates. The last section concerns Oceania and Australia. The chapters in the section on the Americas include sugar cane, cotton, Mexico, California, Panama, Araucania, the Guyanas, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile and Patagonia. The scarce coloured version, the tinted lithographs being finely coloured by hand. Not in Ferguson.

• Binding: Hardcover

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