Item #35512 Los bancos Chilenos [bound with the first volume of] El cabildo de Santiago desde 1573 hasta 1581. Ramón E. Santelices, Miguel Luis Amunátegui, Reyes.
Los bancos Chilenos [bound with the first volume of] El cabildo de Santiago desde 1573 hasta 1581.
Los bancos Chilenos [bound with the first volume of] El cabildo de Santiago desde 1573 hasta 1581.

Los bancos Chilenos [bound with the first volume of] El cabildo de Santiago desde 1573 hasta 1581.

Santiago de Chile: Imprenta y Encuadernacion Barcelona; Imprenta Nacional, 1893; 1890. 467; 287 pp. Illus. with folding charts. 8vo. Quarter red morocco over marbled boards, four raised bands ruled in gilt, five compartments, two with titles and three with gilt florets. First edition. Spine worn, chipped at head, boards rubbed with some edgewear, top half of free front endpaper affixed to half title covering signature and perhaps label, erasures on title; otherwise leaves clean, binding tight, and about very good. Santelices: Palau 299790. Phillips p. 52. Sutter 468. Amunátegui: Palau 11543. Item #35512

An important book on banking in Chile by a powerful legislator who held the position of minister of finance in Chile beginning in 1900. "Extraordinariamente bien documentada narración de la evolucion bancaria de Chile durante 1811-1892," (Sutter, Un siglo de historia económica de Chile 1830-1930, p. 286); "un notable libro titulado," (Pedro Pablo Figueroa, Diccionario biográfico de Chile p. 233).

Price: $200.00