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Lot 88

LPEZ DE VARGAS MASHUCA, Toms (1730-1802)
Sale 503 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Sep 13, 2017 9:59AM
Live / 1338 West Lake Street
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$875
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LPEZ DE VARGAS MASHUCA, Toms (1730-1802) Atlas Elemental, Moderno, coleccion de mapas, para ensear los nios geografa. Madrid: n.p., 1792. 8vo (204 x 162 mm). Engraved title, 24pp. text, 27 engraved maps, all but 2 hand-colored, comprising: 2 celestial, one world map, 12 maps of Europe, 3 maps of Asia, 3 maps of Africa, 4 maps of America, and maps of ancient Israel and the Mediterranean. (Some minor offsetting, a few maps with short tears with old repairs on verso.) Modern half vellum. FIRST EDITION of this scarce Spanish atlas by Lpez, Geographer to the King of Spain. VERY RARE: according to online records, only 3 copies of this atlas have appeared on the market in the last 40 years. Phillips Atlases 677.

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