Peruvian Antiquities

Description

First American edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Publisher’s brown blindstamped cloth, gilt spine title. 23×4.8×3 cm. George P. Putnam. New York. 1853. xxii, 306 pp. Translated from the Spanish by Francis L. Hawks. Engraved illustrations. Good, slightly cocked, light wear to covers, old ink name to endpapers and title page, scattered foxing. An early work on pre-Columbian Peruvian history and archaeology. weight: 1.5 lb.