BONNAFFÉ, A. A. (1825-1903)
Recuerdos de Lima. Album tipos, trajes u costumbres dibujados y Publicados. Lima: A. A. Bonnaffé, 1857.
Striking, finely hand-coloured lithographic representations of Peruvian costumes and trades, the second series including dancers, watermelon and milk vendors, and several images of smokers: El capeador, La chichera. The artist and publisher was the Frenchman A. A. Bonnaffé; the plates were printed in Paris by Lemercier. Most prints are signed in the stone and dated Lima 1855-1856. No text as issued. Bobins I, 3; Palau 32375. Not in Colas or Lipperheide.
Folio (495 x 347mm). 12 lithographic plates coloured by a contemporary hand, all with tissue guards (light, mostly marginal spotting, water-stain to lower outer blank margins). Publisher's navy blue cloth, covers with borders in blind, lettered in gilt at centre of upper cover (spine expertly rebacked, endpapers renewed).
BONNAFFÉ, A. A. (1825-1903)
Recuerdos de Lima. Album tipos, trajes u costumbres dibujados y Publicados. Lima: A. A. Bonnaffé, 1857.
Striking, finely hand-coloured lithographic representations of Peruvian costumes and trades, the second series including dancers, watermelon and milk vendors, and several images of smokers: El capeador, La chichera. The artist and publisher was the Frenchman A. A. Bonnaffé; the plates were printed in Paris by Lemercier. Most prints are signed in the stone and dated Lima 1855-1856. No text as issued. Bobins I, 3; Palau 32375. Not in Colas or Lipperheide.
Folio (495 x 347mm). 12 lithographic plates coloured by a contemporary hand, all with tissue guards (light, mostly marginal spotting, water-stain to lower outer blank margins). Publisher's navy blue cloth, covers with borders in blind, lettered in gilt at centre of upper cover (spine expertly rebacked, endpapers renewed).
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