$47,400
Miers, John (1789-1879), Album of original watercolor, pencil and gouache drawings depicting scenes of Chile, c. 1820-24, eighteen colored views of scenery and native people, some titled, one folding, heightened with gum arabic, approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in., and three leaves with small sepia vignettes, unsigned, diced gilt-tooled calf, oblong folio, (bumped, covers with some stable cracking to calf, rear flyleaf detached, scattered spotting, one plate a little rubbed). Provenance: G.P. Maisonneuve, Libraire Orientale et Americaine, Catalogue No. 25, November 1961, lot 9115. Note: Many of these drawings by Miers were reproduced in lithograph in his book Travels in Chile and La Plata , first published in London in 1826.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-14