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ONLY 300 COPIES SPECIALLY PRINTED BY CODAZZI S HEIRS: THE COPY OF HENRY FRANÇOIS PITTIER. FIRST AND ONLY SPANISH EDITION IN BOOK FORM of the best and rarest biography of General Agustín Codazzi. Limited edition of 300 copies. 8vo, XI, [1], 284, 2 last blank leaves; with portrait plate and 1 photographic illustration in the text. Head and tail-pieces. Text preceded by prologue and followed by the documents and papers section and final appendix. Bound in half black morocco and dark green buckram over boards with gilt tooled title to spine by the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Caracas (paper label glued to front pastedown) for Swiss-born geographer and botanist Henry François Pittier de Fabrega (initials stamped to spine foot and ownership stamp on upper flyleaf). Lightly bumped corners, slightly browned pages due to poor paper quality. A very good copy of this scarce biography. Celebrated in Latin America as El hombre de las tres patrias , General Agustín Codazzi (1793-1859) was born in Lugo, today s Italy, as Giovanni Battista Agostino Codazzi Bartolotti. He was a geographer, cartographer, engineer and later army general during the wars for the Colombian and Venezuelan independences. Adventurer Codazzi left Italy for South America in order to join Simón BolÍvar s liberation army. He was soon commissioned to carry out topographical measurements of the Maracaibo area. In 1830, the massive state of Gran Colombia split into several little states. The territory where Codazzi lived became part of Venezuela. One day his maps of Maracaibo s surroundings were showed to the President of the Venezuelan Republic José Antonio Páez. His work was so appreciated that Páez commissioned him the entire cartography of the state, including the very delicate task of drawing the borders between Venezuela (of which he had recently taken the nationality), Colombia and Ecuador. Throughout his later life he served Venezuela politically and militarily at highest level and is considered one of the national heroes ( próceres ) of the country, as well as of Colombia. Furthermore, he contributed immensely to the study and mapping of still unexplored areas. In 1884, as part of his "Südamerikanische studien. Drei lebensund culturbilder. Mutis, Caldas, Codazzi .", Herman Albert Shumacher, who was German consul in Bogotá, published in Berlin an exhaustive and thorough biography of General Codazzi. This biography was later translated by Francisco Guillermo Manrique and provided with further notes, documents, and letters, by the General s granddaughter Constanza Codazzi de Convers, in order to be published in the issues of the Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades of the Colombian National Academy of History. These issues (from no. 97 to 103) appeared between June 1913 and September 1914. Then, Don Luis Lleras Codazzi collected the issues and edited his grandfather s biography for publication in book form. The volume was printed in San Fernando de Apure, in 1916, in this special limited edition of 300 copies. Shumacher's work is crucial to the knowledge of Codazzi's life. The present book was the personal copy of Henry Pittier (1857-1950) who, as a geographer, botanist, and important explorer of Venenzuela s nature and inland territories, can be considered Codazzi s intellectual heir. It may well be that this book was intentionally presented to Pittier by the heirs of Codazzi. Indeed, they published this book as a sort of commemorative edition dedicated to the life of their famous ancestor, who was a forerunner to Pittier s work. Pittier was the founder of botanical studies and conservationism in Venezuela, as well as the first promoter of its national parks. OCLC lists copies at Berkeley s Bancroft, Illinois University, Indiana University, Florida University, North Carolina university, Library of Congress, University of Maryland (UMBC), and Princeton. Soriano Lleras. Bibliografía Sobre Codazzi, Boletín de la Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia , 68, XV. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1620463469225
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