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ÉNAULT, Louis L'Amérique centrale et méridionale. Dessins de MM. Jules Noël, Lebreton et Gustave Janet. Gravures de MM. Willmann, Outhwaite, Nargeot, Delannoy et Aubert. Paris Ancienne maison Morizot, F. de P. Mellado et Cie, A. Laplace 1867 Lge 8vo; front. and 19 pl. protected with tissue guards (very occ. sl. foxing). Contemp. half red shagreen, blind ruled red buckram on covers, spine gilt ruled with raised bands, a.e.g. (occ. sm. traces of use). Good copy. Rare first edition illustrated with 20 nice steel-engravings, incl. two hand-coloured, representing Veracruz, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Havana, a portrait of the Emperor of Mexico Maximilian I, the Santo Domingo Convent in Buenos Aires, hunting with lasso, portrait of Mexicans, etc. By Énault (1824-1900), French journalist, novelist and translator. Ref. Not in Sabin, Vicaire, Carteret.
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ÉNAULT, Louis L'Amérique centrale et méridionale. Dessins de MM. Jules Noël, Lebreton et Gustave Janet. Gravures de MM. Willmann, Outhwaite, Nargeot, Delannoy et Aubert. Paris Ancienne maison Morizot, F. de P. Mellado et Cie, A. Laplace 1867 Lge 8vo; front. and 19 pl. protected with tissue guards (very occ. sl. foxing). Contemp. half red shagreen, blind ruled red buckram on covers, spine gilt ruled with raised bands, a.e.g. (occ. sm. traces of use). Good copy. Rare first edition illustrated with 20 nice steel-engravings, incl. two hand-coloured, representing Veracruz, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Havana, a portrait of the Emperor of Mexico Maximilian I, the Santo Domingo Convent in Buenos Aires, hunting with lasso, portrait of Mexicans, etc. By Énault (1824-1900), French journalist, novelist and translator. Ref. Not in Sabin, Vicaire, Carteret.
