Hispania Rare Books

£170.00

[Approved by the Congress of 1873]

Codigo Fiscal de los Estados Unidos de Colombia sancionado por el Congreso de 1873. Edicion Oficial.

Bogota: Imprenta de vapor de Zalamea Hermanos, 1882

2 Vols, 230mm x 160mm, green cloth, spine with gilt title.

The current Republic of Colombia was called the United States of Colombia between 1863 and 1886. The 1873 code was approved by Congress that same year. The book offered here was printed in Bogota in 1882 by the curiously named “Zalamea Brothers Steam Printing Press.” The title page is inscribed in ink: “Colombian Legation in England.” Provenance: from the collection of Professor Malcolm Deas, (1941-2023), an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, 

Condition: volume 2 cloth split at front joints, title and first’s pages browned, worn extremities, small tear w/ loss (2cm). repaired. Please see pictures.