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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Barre:: Barre Publishers,. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. Limited edition of 500 copies. A reprint of the 1844 Bartlett and Welford edition. Measures 17" x 21.5". 24 loose chromolithographic plates (of 25 - missing Plate XXIII: Castle, at Tuloom), map plate of Central America and Yucatan, and 24 page booklet in oversize stapled wraps with introduction and plate descriptions. All plates are in excellent condition. Housed in a very good (some minor scuffing) brown cloth covered clamshell box with gilt lettering. .

Barre Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Good. Atlas portfolio. Loose in publisher's large portfolio box, as issued. Shelf wear to box. Limited edition of 500 copies. 25 colored plates, one map of Central America Yucatan, 24 page booklet. All the plates are printed on heavy paper (520 x 419 mm), some have been mounted by Mickelson's Fine Art Framing (of Washington DC) on heavy card stock. 26 plates total, but one plate in duplicate, lacking plate 8. "Reprinted by Barre and the Meriden Gravure co. from a hand-colored set of the 1844 London edition in the library of Edwin Shook, Harvard, Massachusetts. L.C.C. No. 65-16659." Catherwood's work

New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1844. First edition, one of three-hundred copies. Folio (21 x 14 1/4 inches; 533 x 361 mm.) [2], 24 pp. With the chromolithographed title by Owen Jones, lithographed map, twenty-six lithographs on twenty-five plates, and original paper guards. Contemporary half red morocco over red cloth, professionally rebacked retaining original spine. Spine with raised bands lettered and tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers (nonpareil patten), all edges gilt. New tissue guards inserted alongside original paper guards. Several of the originals with Japanese paper repair. Some foxing throughout (though much less than usually seen), especially to margins. Dark stains to front and back boards. Fore-edge marginal restoration to title-page and plates 20, 22, and 24. Overall a very good copy housed in a grey cloth clamshell case with gilt lettering piece on spine. Catherwood's Views of Ancient Monuments is very rare at market, and often considerably more foxed than this copy. The work… Read More