[Rarebooks] FS: 159 plates from the Colombia Comision Corografica

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

[Colombia]. Comisión Corográfica. Londoño, Julio, 
introduction. ALBUM DE LA COMISION COROGRAFICA. 
(SUPLEMENTO DE 'HOJAS DE CULTURA POPULAR 
COLOMBIANA'). [Bogota]: [Hojas de cultura popular 
colombiana], [1957]. 33 pp. + map; plates. Illus. 
with 159 mounted plates. Plates loose in 
portfolio box, text in wrappers, all in a custom 
crimson cloth folding case. First edition thus.

The Comision Corografica conducted pioneering 
surveys of Colombia, "and establishe[d] the 
precedent for native artists and geographers 
recording their own lands and peoples," 
(Heilbrunn, Timeline of Art History, Met. Mus. 
Art). Reproductions of water-colors of 
topographic features, landscapes, antiquities, 
and illustrative socio-racial types by Carmelo 
Fernandez, Enrique Price, and Manuel Maria Paz, 
the artists who accompanied the expeditions of 
the Commission from 1850-1859. Plates are fine, 
text booklet near fine, interior portfolio box 
split at the edges with internal tears, custom 
case near fine, with just a bit of rubbing, 
institutional accession numbers in gilt on spine, 
interior stamp to case.  [33796] $450.00 

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