Santiago de Chile, Museo Nacional de Chile, 1895. Large 4to (31.4 x 27.2 cm). Half-title to the series, title page to the paper; 22 pp.; seven fine, chromolithographed plates. Disbound.

A seldom-seen paper, with fine illustrations of clay-baked pre-Columbian idols from Peru, described the German (later Chilean) malacologist, palaeontologist and archaeologist Rudolph Amandus, or "Rudolfo Amando", Philippi (1808-1904). This seems to be his most important, if not only anthropological and archaeological paper. Philippi, however, "was a founder and the first president of the Sociedad Arqueolójica de Santiago (Archaeological Society of Santiago), a predecessor to the Sociedad Chilena de Arqueología" (Kabat & Coan, p. 12). Published in the museum's Anales. A wide-margined copy. Disbound from a volume with red page edges. The edges with some light bleeding of the red ink, however, far from reaching the printed surface. Some light foxing, one plate partly, lightly, toned due to incission of a low grade paper leaf; otherwise very good. Kabat, A. R. and E. V. Coan (2017). The life and work of Rudolph Amandus Philippi( 1808-1904). Malacologia 60: 1−30.