(City Plans - Madrid)LEIRA, Eduardo.   CANDIDATURE AL PREMIO "SIR PATRICK ABERCROMBIE" UIA         (Madrid:   1986).          Presentation album for the submission of Eduardo Leira's candidacy for the UIA Patrick Abercrombie prize of 1987. The materials included provide a graphic summary of Leira's career up to that point, with particular emphasis on his development of the new city plan for Madrid, his major work. Also included is a 12 page illustrated supplement which provides an extract from the Madrid Plan. Leira did not receive the prize, but was one of two candidates to receive a "mention".   Square folio (29.7 x 29.7 cm); (2) + 40 leaves, printed on rectos only, with three inserts: (4) + 18 pp. with translation in English, (4) + 18 pp. with translation in French, 13 ff. ("Plan General De Ordenacion Urbana De Madrid, 1895. Extracto de la Memoria General").            In original plastic comb binding enclosed in cloth portfolio with ties. $500.00

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