Views of Ancient Monuments

Lot 313
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 313 | Views of Ancient Monuments
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Views of Ancient MonumentsFrederick Catherwood, 1844CATHERWOOD, Frederick (1799-1854). Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. London: F. Catherwood, 1844.First edition, limited to 300 copies, of Catherwood's iconic plate book on the ancient Maya. John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) was inspired by the accounts of the ruins of the ancient Central American civilizations published by Antonio del Rio, Guillaume Dupaix, and Frederick de Waldeck between 1822 and 1838. Catherwood, an English artist and architect, accompanied Stephens on two journeys totaling more than 3,000 miles to 44 archaeological sites in Honduras, Guatemala, Chiapas, and Yucatan between 1839 and 1841. Stephens published two very successful accounts of the travels in 1841 and 1843 (both 2 volumes, with plates after Catherwood).This very rare work is Catherwood's selection of the best and most interesting views, transferred to stone by some of the foremost lithographers of their day. The work was published in both New York (by Barlet and Welford) and London, and priced at 5 guineas for the uncolored issue, as here, and 12 guineas for the colored issue. Hill p. 47; Palau y Dulcet 50290; Sabin 11520; Tooley 133; Von Hagen, Search for the Maya: The Story of Stephens and Catherwood (1973), pp. 320-324.Folio (535 x 350mm). One engraved map and 26 tinted lithographed plates on heavy paper with printed caption beneath (marginal spotting). Original green morocco backed green cloth (spine rubbed, corners showing). Provenance: Frederick DuCane Godman (bookplate; 1834-1919, English lepidopterist, entomologist, and ornithologist) – J.J. Bowerbank L.L.D. (early 19th-century armorial bookplate).
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