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Item:386078117070PERU Capital Lima & San Cristobal Mountain - 1894 Antique Print. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: ? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking. ? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you.
Print Specifics:
Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print
Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1894
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.,
New York, 5 Bond Street
Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper.
Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17,5 x 26 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
Reverse side: Blank
Notes: 1.
Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting
background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.
Original Narrative:
So
far from being the "Empire City" of the New World, it has been
outstripped by several places even in the Southern Continent. Its
position at the outlet of a valley, affording free play to the cool
breezes of the snowy mountain, gives it a lower and pleasanter
temperature than that of the neighbouring towns, the mean range of the
thermometer being, according to Tschudi, little more than 8° Fahr. But
although equable, the climate is far from healthy, the foggy winter
season bringing fevers and dysentery, which in some years assumes an
epidemic character. The mortality constantly exceeds the birthrate, and
the population has also suffered much from wars and political
disorders. Moreover, for many years Lima was little more than the
nominal centre of the Peruvian republic. The lack of easy
communications severed its relations with the remoter provinces, so
that Cuzco, Arequipa and other centres of attraction were able to
challenge its political preponderance. Although little over three miles
in a straight line from the coast, Lima stands, not on the lowlands,
but on a triangular plateau skirting the left bank of the Rimac, at a
height of 575 feet above sea-level. Around the central quarter as
planned by Pizarro have been developed some less geometrical quarters,
while on the opposite side of the river, here spanned by two bridges,
the new town of San Lazaro has sprung up at the foot of the San
Cristobal eminence (1,415 feet), which is crowned by a fortress. The
houses, usually of two stories, are built of adobe, and are disposed in
a square round a central patio in the Moorish style adopted by the
Spaniards.
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Condition:Used
Condition:Please See Item Condition & Notes Below
Listed By:Martin2001
Type:Print
Dimensions::7 x 10.5" (17,5 x 26 cm)
Year of Production:1894
Original/Reproduction:Original Print
Theme:History, Geography, Travel, South America
Production Technique:Xylograph - Wood Engraving
Original/Licensed Reprint:Original
Subject:Landscape, Citiscape
Time Period Produced:1850-1899
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