Album de Lima y Sus Alrededores.
[Lima: 1900]. 210pp. Oblong quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled paper-covered boards. Minor rubbing and scuffing to edges and boards. Handsome bookplate to front pastedown, occasional very minor foxing. Very good. Item #4112
A delightful viewbook and commercial directory of Peru published in Lima at the turn of the 20th century. The monotone and sepia-toned photographs and photocollages picture numerous buildings, interiors, street scenes, storefronts, and more mostly in Lima but also in Callao, Chorrillos, Barranco, and Miraflores. An Index of the "Vistas de Lima" provides a description for the photographs, though almost all of the photographs are captioned beneath the image. The photographs are printed on the rectos of the work, while most of the versos of each leaf contain full-page advertisements for a wide variety of businesses in the various cities, including banks, mercantile firms, importers, breweries, milers, and numerous others. A healthy percentage of the versos are printed with a commercial directory of Lima, as well as the membership list of the Bolsa Comercial, providing a snapshot of the economic life of Peru at the time. No copies in American institutions.
OCLC records just two copies worldwide, one in Peru and the other in France.
Price: $550