[Americana]. BOTURINI BENADUCI (Lorenzo). Idea de una histor - Lot 227

[Americana]. BOTURINI BENADUCI (Lorenzo). Idea de una historia general de la America Septentrional En Madrid, Juan de Zuniga, 1746. Small in-4 (19.5 x 14 cm.), frontispiece, portrait, [20] f., 167 p., [4] f., 96 p., pastiche spotted fawn basane, 5-ribbed spine, red title-piece, caissons decorated with a gilt fleuron, red edges (corners dulled, boards and spine rubbed, foxing, marginal soiling, frontispiece reinforced on spine, restored cracks on qq pages). The author, who arrived in Mexico in 1750, devoted eight years to the study of its history, mastering the Mexican language, obtaining ancient paintings from the Indians and copying precious monastery manuscripts. The appendix to his Catalogo del Musèo Indiano, of great bibliographical interest, contains a catalog of a remarkable collection of books, manuscripts and maps on the history of Mexico. The edition is illustrated with a frontispiece and a portrait of the author engraved on copper by Matías de Irala after his own compositions. Provenance: sold by Librairie américaine et coloniale, Paris (dry stamp on title); then Casa Pardo, Buenos Aires (label) (Sabin, 6834).