[Rarebooks] FS: 1960s Barcelona Municipal Funeral Parlors Catalog of Coffins, Urns & Hearses

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

“Ayuntamiento de Barcelona - Servicio Municipal de Pompas Funebres”  
(City Council of Barcelona- Services of Municipal Funeral Parlors).

A rather incredible catalog of fancy and plain caskets (32), urns (4),  
burial stands (3), and hearses (17 plus 4 interiors, 21 plates). The  
caskets range from the plainest wood to the most exuberant examples of  
Spanish Baroque craftsmanship in exotic woods, ostentatious brass and  
gilt fittings, some with painfully dramatic sculpted crucifixions  
going on as their central decoration. But even eclipsing these  
creations are the hearses, which came in a wide range of styles and  
ages, from modern station wagons to painfully utilitarian  
delivery-type service vans, from 1950s behemoths to elegant sedans  
left over from the 1930s, and an all-black 1920s pickup truck with a  
towering black and gold painted rotunda set on the truck bed.

Hardcover. 12.5”x6.5”. 4 pages of text plus 60 color plates. Minor  
soil, light wear. [45362]  $450

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