MARBAIS Du GRATY, Alfred 2 works in first edition... Lot 590

MARBAIS Du GRATY, Alfred 2 works in first edition on Paraguay and Argentine. 8vo (foxing throughout). Publ. gilt pictorial black cloth (coat of arms of the country), gilt titled flat spines (cloth faded and lower board sl. rubbed to one vol.). A. Marbais (1823-1891), was a Colonel in the army of the Argentine Confederation. 1. La Confédération argentine. Paris, Guillaume & Cie; Brussels, A. Decq; London, Barthes & Lowell, 1858. Illustrated with 4 fold. maps, incl. 3 on tracing paper (the Argentine Confederation, the province of Jujuy, etc.), 8 lithographs, incl. 2 fold. (portraits and views: the San José Palace, Córdoba, the Salador River, the first Vice President Salvador María del Carril, the author's portrait, etc. ). Ref. Sabin 21160 (wrong collation). - Palau 76595. - 2. La République du Paraguay. Brussels, Leipzig, Ghent, C. Muquardt; London, Trubner & Comp., 1862. Illustrated with 1 large fold. map with border heightened (on tracing paper), and 20 lithographs, most on tinted background, showing the harbour of Asuncion, Las Siete Puntas, Palacio de López (palace of the government), Cerro de la Margarita, cacique (chief) of the Payaguá people, etc. Ref. Sabin 21161.