Monumenta Iconographica: Paisajes, Ciudades, Tipos, Usos y Costumbres de la Argentina 1536-1860 (2 vols.)

Buenos Aires: Emece Editores, 1964. Hardbound. 2 vols. Brown cloth with brown leather spine with gilt lettering. Volume 1: 236 pp. color frontispiece, no other illustrations. Volume 2: [192] pages of plates. VG-, slight wear or nicks to the extreme edges. Internally very fresh. Item #110991

This is a set of two volumes, lacking a slipcase which may have contained them. Volume I is the text volume, describing the 202 (mostly color) plates contained in the 192 pages in Volume II. It contains a massive bibliography that lists over 450 references. Volume 1 also contains very detailed artist biographies and a most detailed chronology. No foxing. Ths is a substantive and important work detailing and illustrating highlights from Argentine art of the period 1536-1860. Preface by Antonio Santamarina. This set is copy No. 19. text is entirely in Spanish.

Price: $300.00