Recuerdos de Lima

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26.05.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 241 | Recuerdos de Lima
Recuerdos de LimaA. A. Bonnaffé, 1856-7Recuerdos de Lima. Album tipos, trajes u costumbres dibujados y Publicados. Lima: A. A. Bonnaffé, 1856 and 1857. Striking color-plate images of Peruvian costumes and trades, first and second series. The artist and publisher is the Frenchman A. A. Bonnaffé; the plates were printed in Paris by Lemercier. The illustrations include several images of tapadas limeñas, women wearing a characteristic but controversial Peruvian costume consisting of a long veil covering the entire face except for one eye. The Catholic Church made several failed attempts to ban this style of dress due to the anonymity it gave women on the street, but it persisted until falling out of fashion in favor of European trends. Both series are present here in their original publisher's bindings; no text as issued. Palau 32375. Two volumes, folio (450 x 302mm and 492 x 345mm). 24 hand-colored lithographs, most with tissue guards (light foxing, a few small edge repairs in second work, in one case affecting several inches of a lithograph). Contemporary gilt-stamped green boards (spine neatly repaired, second volume rebacked preserving some of the original cloth). Housed together in a custom cloth clamshell box.
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