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America / South America / Latin America / Bolivia / Peru - Tallis, John / Rapkin, John (1817 - 1876)Biblio.com

Peru & Bolivia - with Vignettes and illustrations of Lima Potosi Tarija swimming couriers of Peru.

1851rif. 2007AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 24.7 cm x 33.8 cm. Sheet Size: 27.4 cm x 37.5 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown

Inanna Rare Books Ltd. · Irlanda275,00 €

South America - Conquista del Peru - Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, GonzaloBiblio.com

Cronica de las Indias: La hystoria general de las Indias agora nueuamente impressa corregida y emendada:

1547rif. 19895AB1547. Salamanca Juan de Junta 1547. 315 : 225 cm. 4 unnumbered leaves including woodcut-title 187 off 192 numbered leaves with many woodcuts in the text; 22 numbered leaves including woodcut-title 1 leaf. Vellum binding in contemporary style. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés August 1478 - 1557 commonly known as Oviedo was a Spanish soldier historian writer botanist and colonist. Oviedo participated in the Spanish colonization of the West Indies arriving in the first few years after Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands in 1492. Oviedo's chronicle Historia general de las Indias forms one of the few primary sources about it and introduced Europeans to the hammock the pineapple and tobacco as well as creating influential representations of the colonized peoples of the region. It is through the Historia that Europeans came to learn about the hammock pineapple tobacco and barbecue among other things used by the Native Americans that he encountered. The first illustration of a pineapple is credited to him. The Historia though written in a diffuse style furnishes a mass of information collected at first hand. With many interesting woodcuts like canoe o waka differents forms of houses different tools plants fuit-trees different forms of cactus pineapple etc. The second part is: CONQUISTA DEL PERU. Verdadera relacíon dela conquista el Peru y provincia del Cuzco llamada la nueva Castilla. Conquistada por Francisco picarro.Embiada a su magestad por Francisco de Xerez .Fue vista y examinada esta obra por mandado delos señores Inquisidores. With a beautiful title-woodcut complet. - Missing Folios XLVII LXVI LXXI CXXI and CLIII. The numbers for Folio LXXVI and CLXXX used twice. The copy was washed and some pages with small restaurations folio LVII lower right corner supplemented with loose of some letters also the last page. A couple of pages browned and a bit stained. Newly bound with new endpapers. - Even with this defects still a desire-able copy of this extremely rare oeuvre. hardcover

Michael Steinbach Rare Books · Austria14.500,00 €

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