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Livres anciens et modernes

Prado, Mariano Pena And Jose Gabriel Cosio [Second Work]

Un Viaje al Sur del Peru [A Trip to the South of Peru]; [together with] El Cuzco Historico y Monumental

1924-1933

68,62 €

Horizon Books

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Détails

Année
1924-1933
Lieu d'édition
Lima and Cuzco. Editorial Incazteca
Auteur
Prado, Mariano Pena And Jose Gabriel Cosio [Second Work]
Edition
First editions.
Thème
Travel - South America Archeology
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

12mo [17.5 x 12.5 cm]; 2 works bound in one volume, [vi], 60, [i, index]; 119, [i] pp, 5 plates in the second work, including 2 folding. leather-backed boards, gilt spine title lettering, marbled endpapers, tiny light and barely perceptible blind-stamp of previous owner in title margin, small hole in inside margin of some leaves of first work, very good or better. A picture of this book is Two works on southern Peru, the fist by Prado, historian, travelled from Lima, Arequipa, Puno and especially in and around Cuzco, with observations on conditions, indigenous peoples (los Quechuas), etc. The second work, gives a notice of the recently discovered Machu Picchu by Bingham, and describes other Incan and pre-Incan structures and sites in and around Cuzco. Two early works (in Spanish) providing a picture of southern Peru before tourists discovered the area and prior to the recent development.