Manuel Ancízar [Manuel Esteban ANCÍZAR BASTERRA]
Peregrinacion de Alpha (M. Ancizar) por las provincias del norte de la Nueva Granada en 1850 i 51.[Alpha’s Travels (M. Ancízar) through the Northern Provinces of New Granada in 1850 and 1851]
Imprenta de Echeverria hermanos|Bogotá 1853|10.5 x 15.7 cm|Relié
Very rare first edition of this major work, complete as issued (the text ends abruptly with the final table, without a table of chapters).
Illustrated with a lithographed portrait frontispiece (Cf. Palau 11 815. Sabin 1377.)
Contemporary half cherry calf over marbled paper boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, garlands and fleurons; small loss at foot of spine, which is also rubbed; some abrasion to the marbled paper; speckled edges; corners and board edges rubbed.
Only two copies recorded in the CCF (BnF and Institut).
A member of Colombia's Comision corografica from 1850, the writer and publicist Manuel Ancizar Basterra (1812-1882) undertook an...
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