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All CollectionsVery rare first edition of this work, never reprinted.
Only one copy listed in the CCF (Versailles).
Contemporary bottle green half shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands ruled in gilt and adorned with double gilt compartments and gilt floral motifs, gilt title at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges.
Some foxing; Mexican peddler's stamp on title page.
Only edition of this collection presented from a Mexican perspective, with an introduction by José Maria Lafragua Ibarra (1813–1875).
Name R. Criado stamped in gilt at foot of spine.