BONNAFFÉ, A. A. (1825-1903)

Lot 183
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Lot 183 | BONNAFFÉ, A. A. (1825-1903)
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
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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