Album pintoresco de la Republica Mexicana

Lot 213
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Lot 213 | Album pintoresco de la Republica Mexicana
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$ 12 000 – 18 000
Album pintoresco de la Republica MexicanaJulio Michaud, c.1850MICHAUD, Julio (1807-1876). Album pintoresco de la Republica Mexicana. Mexico City: Michaud and Thomas, [c.1850]. "Not only Mexico's first major color plate book, but probably the most significant one produced throughout the nineteenth century" (America Pictured to the Life). The plates illustrate traditional costumes and activities (like tortilla making), Mexico City views, and scenes from the Mexican-American War. "Most views of the Mexican War were produced in the United States, but Mexican artists and lithographers also attempted to record the war and its consequences" (ibid.). The publisher, Julio Michaud, was born in Paris and relocated to Mexico, where he worked as a publisher and bookseller. His business partner, Jean-Baptiste Thomas, was also a French expatriate. Although the album is undated, the Mexican-American War scenes and the presence of the equestrian statue of Carlos IV in the courtyard of the university, from which it was removed in 1852, indicate a publication date of around 1850. Mathes suggests that some of the chromolithographs were printed outside Mexico, and indeed several plates here bear Paris imprints. Copies of the Album pintoresco in libraries frequently vary in content and number of plates, from 39 to as many as 49 plates. America Pictured to the Life 48; Mathes, Mexico on Stone 56; Palau 5417. Oblong folio (320 x 441mm). Hand-colored lithographic title, 45 lithographic prints, 16 of which in color (a few neat repairs in margins, occasionally affecting printed area). Rebound in half morocco over pebbled cloth, preserving some of the original spine and the morocco title label on upper board.
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