Search Results: Authors starting with L from Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 3 parts in 1 volume: [2], XIII, [1] 308; [2] 187, [1]; [2], 39, [1], 309-15, [1], [4] pp., titles within elaborate fretwork borders, tail-piece at end of text in first vol., some typographical ornaments throughout. First vol. includes several tables showing the Indian Toltec calendar (pp. 193-211). The "Suplemento" has caption title and imprint only at colophon. The editor's dedication leaf introducing the supplement is printed on recto as follows: "para inmortalizar el valor heroico de los indios cascanes por causa de su libertad de la tirania española, dedica estamemoria al honorable congreso de Xalisco Carlos Maria de Bustamante. Año de 1827." Index for first vol. (pp. 309- 15) bound at end. Early C20th bookseller's label glued to upper pastedown (Luis Bardon, Madrid). Slightly later quarter gilt-tooled leather and marbled paper over boards, gilt title to spine. An excellent, wide-margined copy, very clean and crisp, of this scarce work, today virtually unobtainable on the… Read More