GAY (Claudio). Atlas de la historia fisica y politica de Chi - Lot 81

GAY (Claudio). Atlas de la historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, En la Imprenta de E. Thunot y Ca, 1854. 2 vols. large in-4°, black half-basin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). FIRST EDITION. A lithographed portrait of Diego Portales, "Organizador y Padre de la República", a large folded map of Chile, and 312 lithographs after Claudio GAY, his wife, Johann Moritz RUGENDAS, J. GANDARILLA, H. van der BURCH... - 20 (maps and plans), 52 (scenes and landscapes), 2 (antiquities) & 103 (flora). -- 14 (birds), 17 (fish), 13 (crustaceans & bacteria), 14 (shellfish), 11 (mammals) & 66 (insects). Spines faded: two detached plates: "Entiero del cacique Cathiji en Guanegue Mayo 1835." (t. I), & "Erpetologia fosil, N° 1" (t. II). ATLAS COMPLETING THE MONUMENTAL HISTORIA FISICA Y POLITICA DE CHILE BY THE FRENCH-CHILEAN SCIENTIST CLAUDIO GAY: A SEMINAL WORK FOR THE CHILEAN NATION AND IDENTITY. Sabin, 26779 (who cites this atlas without describing it): MIZÓN Claudio Gay y la Formación de la Identidad Cultural Chilena Editorial Universitaria, 2001.