España, sus monumentos y artes, su naturaleza e historia. Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas. [Spain: its monuments and arts, its nature and history. Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines]

₱8,800.00

1 in stock

Description

944 pp., beautiful gilted pictorial red binding with impressive front cover, decorative spine and rear cover, and foredge printing in red; 2 original-colour chromolithographs of Cuba, several photographs and many text xylographic illustrations.

Title printed in red and black. Binding: red publisher’s cloth tooled in gilt and black; page edges red with gilt ornaments. RARE Historical-geographical description of these Spanish overseas possessions among the last to be published before the hand-over to the USA. With more than 350 pages on the Philippines.

Condition

with foxing in first 20 pages and occasionally on other pages, lacking pages 823-824 and 829-830; book block just starting; condition considered when pricing; normally would sell for double the amount.