first edition Hardcover
1787 · Mexico City
by Palóu, Francisco
Mexico City: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1787. First edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Quarto. Collation: [pi]4, [asterisk]10, [1]-43 [in fours] (= 372 leaves). [28], 344 pp., woodcut initial; 2 leaves of engraved plates (1 folded: map). Contemporary vellum (soiled), manuscript title at spine (faded). Endleaves expertly renewed; faint soiling and embrowning at map folds, 2-inch tear through inner margin blank area of map expertly repaired with Japan paper. Text clean and crisp with only occasional mild toning and foxing, else a very good copy with very good map.
First edition (second issue) of what has been called "the most noted of all books (truncated)
First edition (second issue) of what has been called "the most noted of all books (truncated)