[KERRET - LATIN AMERICA - SALAS (Geronimo): "Costumes of the - Lot 55

[KERRET - LATIN AMERICA - SALAS (Geronimo): "Costumes of the Republic of Ecuador and especially of the vicinity of Quito". Reunion of 32 watercolor plates (110 x 172 mm [framed]) in an oblong in-8° volume, contemporary brown percaline, title "Album" in the center of the first cover (contemporary binding). Handwritten title in ink and 32 ORIGINAL AQUARELLES, signed in graphite (Geronimo SALAS or G. S.) and captioned in ink at foot. Collected by Jean René Maurice de KERRET de QUILLIEN (1833-1898) during his travels in Central and South America (Peru, New Granada, Panama, Cape Horn, Amazonia, Uruguay, Paraguay...) in the years 1852-1855. Volume partially unbound; foxing to corners of plates. Cf. J. R.M. de Kerret de Quillien, Journal de mes voyages autour du monde 1852-1855 : Brésil, Pérou, Équateur, Tahiti, Honolulu, Kamtchatka, Californie, Mexique. Saint-Thonan, 2004. In the same album: [TAHITI]. Reunion of six manuscript pieces from the second half of the 19th century, in the Tahitian language, and a graphite drawing. This set includes: - a L. A. S. from QUEEN "POMARÉ" (1813-1877), dated Papeete, 29 turai [alias July] 1850 (1 p. in-8° of 15 lines in Tahitian, signature included, addressee on back); - a L. A. S. "Paraita Awaha (?)", dated Papeete, 19 (Julaii?) 1851 (1 p. in-8° of 17 lines in Tahitian); - a L. A. S. "Tati", dated Papura, 7 atopa [alias October] 1853 (1 p. in-8° of 12 lines in Tahitian); - a L. A. S. "Jere", dated 5 fepuari [alias February] 1854 (1 p. in-8° of 13 lines in Tahitian); - a L. A., dated Papeete, 2 fepuari [alias February] 1854 (1 p. in-8° of 14 lines in Tahitian); - a L. A. S. "Paiore*", s.l.n.d. (1 p. in-8° of 12 lines in Tahitian) with small dry crown stamp upper left [* "the regent of the Tuamotu archipelago, author of the "Map of the Creation of the World"?]; - a pencil portrait of a woman (14 x 15 cm) signed (or titled?) "Arïtai // Taiti 1853". The corners of the leaves are foxed due to the glue used to fix them. Set of correspondence collected by Jean René Maurice de KERRET de QUILLIEN (1833-1898) during his trip to the Pacific islands (Tahiti, Marquesas, Honolulu...) in 1852-1855. In the same album: [KERRET]. Reunion of some thirty miscellaneous pieces from the second half of the 19th century. This set includes : - three watercolors: the first, with a humorous theme, signed QUILLENBOIS and captioned in ink at the foot with the following note in the margin: "Souvenir de Mr de SARCUS"; the second and third depicting a castle (English?) with this marginal note: "Fait par Mr [Charles?de MALARTIC"; - three drawings: a small humorous sketch in ink with a caption, an animal sketch in graphite drawn by Isabelle de KERRET in 1882, and another pencil drawing; - some twenty pieces of active and passive correspondence from the de KERRET family (including the following names: Janzé, La Rochefoucauld, Mackau, etc.), including one written in Port de Balade, New Caledonia, and another written in Spanish in Acapulco, Mexico. - a bailiff's summons dated September 16, 1889. From the archives of Jean René Maurice de KERRET DE QUILLIEN (1833-1898). See reproductions - Incunabula