New York: Imprenta de S.W. Benedict, 1851. [2],128pp. plus folding frontispiece map (outlined in three colors), eight additional folding maps and plans, three portraits, and two folding plates. In Spanish. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Backstrip and portion of lower board faded. Corners bumped. Light scattered foxing. Very.....
Lima. 1827. [4],iv,76pp. Folio. Dbd. Light foxing and soiling. Moderate foxing to last two leaves; small tears and some chipping to edges. Good. An important document outlining the constitutional law of Peru. One copy in OCLC, at the John Carter Brown Library.
Rome. 1683. [20],540,[27]pp. plus engraved portrait. Folio. Later vellum, with vellum closures. Text heavily wormed. Light to moderate foxing. First three and last ten leaves worn and backed. Fair. A biography of Saint Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo (1538- 1606), second Archbishop of Lima, with an engraved portrait of him. Mogrovejo.....
Lima: Manuel del Rio, 1822. 31pp. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Wrapper lightly and evenly tanned. Light toning to text. Very good. Exposition on the government of Peru, printed by order of San Martin, the Protector of Peru. An important work at a critical moment in the fight for.....
Buenos Aires: En la imprenta de niños expósitos, [1812]. 16pp. In Spanish. Dbd. Staining throughout, affecting but not obscuring a few words of text on most pages. One small hole and one slightly larger hole, measuring 3/4-inch x 1 inch, in terminal leaf, with loss to several words of text.....
Sucre: Imprenta Boliviana, April 28, 1860. Title-leaf plus 224 numbered columns on fifty-six leaves. Gathered signatures, stitched. Light numerical inscription in red pencil on titlepage. Minor wear and soiling to outer leaves. Very good. The second part of Fray Honorio Mossi's monumental Quechua-Spanish / Spanish-Quechua dictionary, this part being the.....
Genova: Luis Pellas, [ 1839]. [6],415,[1]pp. plus five plates. Extra engraved titlepage. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Internally bright and clean. Very good. Self-styled second edition. A history of Mexico, with much on Mexican Indians, their customs and practices, in a series of letters. "By the prologue.....
Mexico: Maria de Benavides, Viuda de Juan de Ribera, 1697. [12],84 leaves, plus engraved frontispiece portrait and an extra plate not called for tipped to the inside front cover. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, ties lacking. Moderate shelfwear. Without endpapers, front hinge detached from textblock, disinfection tag on inside of.....
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Puebla. [ca. 1763 to 1807]. Thirty-two (of thirty-three) copper-engraved plates (the first plate in expert facsimile). Issued without titlepage or text. Contemporary half Mexican calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards, corners worn. Minor toning and foxing, tiny puncture marks in the top margin of.....
Madrid: April 29, 1726. 5 leaves. Folio. Stitched as issued. Very minor foxing. Very good plus. A petition to King Philip V of Spain, written by Captain Pedro de Nava, of San Juan, Puerto Rico denouncing the widespread corruption of officials in Puerto Rico and calling for swift involvement by.....
Madrid. 1846. 421pp. Half title. Library buckram. Slight staining to first few leaves, else very good. Navarrete's last work, published posthumously. "Important for the history of Spanish navigators" (Sabin), with much biographical information on early Portuguese and Spanish navigators.
[Mexico]. 1814. [3]pp. Folio. Signed in print "Humana" with accompanying paraph ("rúbrica"), additional manuscript annotation on p.[3]. Contemporary manuscript docket inscription on verso of p.[3]. Old folds, with short holes and tears with some paper loss (not affecting text). Two small clean tears near old fold (no loss of paper.....
Madrid: En la imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra, 1803. [2],xxxvi,194,[98]pp. Folio. Contemporary Spanish calf, spine gilt, leather label. Lightly rubbed at extremities, boards lightly scuffed. Contents bright and clean. Near fine. Administrative regulations for Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and the Philippines. These laws represent the last ditch.....
Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra... 1782. [4],lii,315pp. Half title. Late 19th-century mottled calf, spine gilt, gilt leather spine label. Moderate shelfwear and some scuffing to edges, chipped at head of spine and with remnants of shelf sticker. Endpapers splitting along hinges, inked number on half title, otherwise internally clean. Very.....
Valparaiso. Jan. 30, 1825. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded, with two separations from the outer margin repaired with archival tape. A few other small nicks and separations along fold lines, not affecting text. Some tanning and light foxing. Good plus. A striking letter written in January 1825 by the.....
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[Oruro (?). 1825]. Broadside, 12 x 8 inches. In Spanish. Early folds. Very light staining, else near fine. An extremely rare, and possibly unrecorded, example of one of Gen. Antonio de Olañeta's final proclamations to the public, issued three months before his death. Olañeta was a major royalist leader during.....
Lima. 1803. xix[i.e.,xiv],199,[2];[1],168,42pp. Small quarto. Two volumes in one. Contemporary calf, blind and gilt ruled, edges painted blue. Hinges and corners worn, boards scuffed. Worming through boards and text block, somewhat affecting text, particularly initial leaves. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front and rear free endpapers. Light tanning and occasional light.....
Badajoz, Spain: Emilio Orduña, 1882. 66pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine mostly perished, some shelf wear. Rear wrapper soiled and clipped, front wrapper also with some soiling. Text evenly tanned with scattered light foxing. Good plus. A late 19th century Spanish medical tract on various aspects of glaucoma. The author, an.....
Madrid. 1931. Two volumes bound in one: 125[3]; 48,[1]pp. Half title in both volumes. Modern blue cloth, spine gilt. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Text uniformly tanned. Very good. In a blue cloth slipcase. Father Ore, born in Peru in 1554, was an significant early chronicler of the New World. In.....
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[Madrid. 1798]. Map, 25 x 20 1/2 inches. Minor edge wear and dampstaining, more prominent in upper right corner. Light creasing. Bookplate of the Maryland Historical Society with deaccession stamp on verso. Very good. A note on the bookplate indicates this map was presented to the Maryland Historical Society by.....
Lima: Oficina nueva de la Calle de la Coca, 1763. [38],41 [i.e. 45], [15],[31]pp. plus two plates (one folding). Small quarto. Contemporary vellum with remnants of pigskin ties, lettered on spine. Light ex-lib. stamp on titlepage. Light scattered foxing, a few leaves lightly and evenly tanned. Some slight worming, affecting.....
Mexico. 1887. ix,[1],564,vi pp. Later red cloth. Decorative front cover. Spine faded, binding dampstained. Good. Second edition, reprinting the text of the rare original edition of 1754. This edition edited by Manuel de Olaguibel. An important primary source work for the Spanish Southwest, by Jesuit missionary and native of Tlaxcala.....
[Madrid? 1621]. [1],5 leaves. Folio. Loose gatherings. Outermost gathering neatly reinforced with tissue along spine and fore edges. Discreet tissue repairs to fore edge of other leaves. Clean and fresh. Very good. Memorial to the King of Spain written by Juan Ortiz de Cervantes, Procurador General, advocating for the rights.....
Madrid. 1762. Thirteen volumes bound in fifteen. [100],704; [67],581; [44],619; [8],536; [8],608; [16],632; [28],611; [36],632; [18],586; 40,586; [14],618; [8],525; [8],564; [8],651; [42],652pp., plus engraved portrait of Palafox by Palomino after Velasquez, engraved portrait of Carlos III by Gil, and engraved portrait of Palafox by Anton Rosende. Woodcut title vignettes, head-.....
Seville: Lucas Martin, 1691. [64],465,[33] pp. plus portrait (not found in all copies). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, leather ties. New endpapers. A touch of light foxing. FF signature leaves bound out of order, with FF3-FF4 bound before FF1-FF2, and [FF7-FF8] bound before [FF5-FF6]. Very good. A later printing.....
