Castro, Casimiro, G. Rodriguez and J. Campillo.

Folio (445 x 305mm.), half-title, title and text in Spanish and French, additional chromolithographed pictorial title, 47 plates showing 51 subjects (4 with two images to the page), all but 4 chromolithographed or hand-coloured, plates captioned in English, Spanish and French, folding coloured plan of Mexico City dated 1869, folding map of the country of Mexico dated 1870 coloured in outline, publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt 'Mexico y sus alrededores 1870', [cf. Abbey, Travel 672 (earlier issue with fewer plates)], 16 plates browned, others with light to medium spotting, half-title and title with minor fraying and tears, half-title neatly laid down, text lightly browned, folding plan and map with repaired tears, binding rebacked, corners repaired

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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A fine pictorial record of Mexico with ''draughtsmanship and lithography of a very high quality'' (Abbey). This work was first published during 1855-57 with 41 tinted views on 38 plates. It was extended in 1864 with additional plates, the map and the plan (as here). Later issues, such as the one offered here, have most of the plates coloured.