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Histoire du Paraguay

Lot 35
16.06.2023 16:00UTC -05:00
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ID 965151
Lot 35 | Histoire du Paraguay
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Histoire du Paraguay
Alfred Demersay, 1860-1865
DEMERSAY, Alfred (1815-1891). Histoire physique, économique et politique du Paraguay et des établissements des Jésuites. Paris: L. Hachette, [1860-1865].

Very rare first edition, devoted to Paraguay. Demersay was a French physician commissioned to explore Paraguay. He traveled through the valleys of Parana and Paraguay and crossed the Gran Chaco where he met Lenguas and Tobas people. His map includes an inset of the "Gran Cataracte du Rio Parana."

This copy was in South America from an early date. It bears a 19th-century bookseller's gilt-stamp on the upper turn-ins of both text volumes: "Libraria de B.L. Garnier rua do Ouvidor, Rio de Janeiro." Livraria Garnier, owned by Baptiste Louis Garnier, would go on to be the most important publisher of Latin American literature in the 19th century. This is the only complete copy to appear in the auction records in over 50 years. The next most recent was sold in 1968, from the library of Dr. Enrique Garcia Merou, of Buenos Aires. Sabin 19473; Palau 70299.

Atlas folio (550 x 378mm) and two text volumes, octavo (234 x 150mm). Atlas: 15 hand-colored lithographed plates, including the lithographed portrait of Aimé Bonpland printed on india paper and mounted, 14 further hand-colored lithographed plates, one hand-colored engraved map (a few light spots, two plates trimmed and re-mounted to size). Original printed front wrapper bound in. Text: Half-titles; errata leaf at end of vol. 1. (a few browned or spotted leaves). Together, 3 volumes. 19th-century near uniform green quarter morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, the text volumes with stars. Provenance: Sotheby's, 4 November 2014, lot 152.Demersay, Alfred
Paraguay
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe, South America
Auction house category:Printed books
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