London: Printed by John Darby, 1716. v,3-117,[2]pp. plus folding engraved map by H. Moll. 12mo. Antique-style speckled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Minor soiling and foxing. Near fine. "A reprint of the translation printed in 1698 of the Voyage of Sieur Accarrete to Buenos Aires, from Thevenot's Collection, without any.....
Paris. 1616. [8],375,[16] leaves. Early vellum. Titlepage slightly worn at fore-edge. Scattered light soiling. Slight worming in gutter, not affecting text; two wormholes through last few leaves, minutely affecting text in spots. Bookplate of famous collector Alberto Parreno on verso of final leaf. Generally very good. Fourth French edition of.....
Rio de Janeiro: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas, 1963. Two volumes. 716; 712pp. Folding maps and facsimiles. Thick quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Some slight soiling to covers. Else very good. An exhuastive carto-bibliography for the Amazon region. Notes and descriptions in Portuguese.
London. 1812-1815. Five volumes. [2],xl,[16],574; [4],597; [4],512; [4],636; [4],462,[2],105pp. Modern black cloth, spines gilt. Front hinges of several volumes cracking, shelf numbers in white ink on spine, institutional stamps and markings on titlepages, top edges, and rear pastedowns. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Good plus. First English translation, after the.....
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Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, [1833]. 47,[1]pp., including thirty-one woodcuts. Title-leaf vignette. Gathered signatures, stitched. Minor edge wear. Last leaf with four inch tear in from foredge with some loss. Contemporary ownership signatures on first and last leaf. Other manuscript marks throughout. Good. A wonderful almanac, profusely illustrated with thirty- one.....
Madrid. 1769. [36],374,[28]pp. Folio. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title. Minor soiling. Very good plus. Second edition, after the first of 1726. With years of administrative experience and the impressive title of "Alcalde Visitador del Commercio entre Castilla, y las Indias," Don Antonio José Alvarez de Abreu (1683-1756) was clearly well.....
Amsterdam & Leipzig. 1749. [8],xvi,333,[1]pp. plus thirty-two plates (twenty-nine folding) and three folding maps. Half title. Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on half title and titlepage. Light foxing and soiling. Several maps with old repaired tears, without loss, at connective gutter margin. Very good. First.....
Dublin. 1819. 180pp., including frontispiece and five plates. Engraved titlepage vignette. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Rubbed along spine, edgeworn. Very good. An early 19th-century printing of one of the most popular nautical narratives of the 18th-century. The mission of Anson's voyage was to harass Spanish.....
Buenos Aires: Imprenta de la Gaceta Mercantil, 1832. xv,[2],142,[2],[145]-247,[5]pp. plus lithographic portrait, one folding table, and two folding maps. [bound with:] Angelis, Pedro de: BIOGRAFIA DEL SEÑOR GENERAL ARENALES Y JUICIO SOBRE LA MEMORIA HISTÓRICA DE SU SEGUNDA CAMPAÑA A LA SIERRA DEL PERU EN 1821. Buenos Aires: Imprenta de.....
London. 1808. viii,216,[1]pp. plus four folding maps. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Minor offsetting and foxing on titlepage and to other leaves facing maps. Old library stamps on first two leaves; contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Errata slip pasted to verso of titlepage. Very good, untrimmed. In 1807, Gen.....
[Buenos Aires: Imprenta de los Expositos, July 14, 1820]. Broadside. 11 1/2 x 7 inches. Dbd. Trimmed close at top without loss of text, minor worming, more particularly towards lower foredge with loss of approximately four words. Very good. "Bando" or proclamation printing of this Argentine broadside which reiterates Dorrego's.....
[Buenos Aires. Feb. 11, 1820]. Broadside, 7 1/2 x 12 inches. Moderate edge wear. Old library stamp on recto and verso. Very good. A broadside proclamation regarding the Bando Oriental, recently annexed by Brazil during Buenos Aires' struggle for independence. Not on OCLC.
Dublin: Printed by R. Smith and published by W. Figgis, 1808. 109pp. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Shelf mark plate of Markree Library on front pastedown, signature of E.S. Cooper on titlepage. A very good copy. An anonymous account by a field officer relating the unsuccessful British attempt.....
[Buenos Aires. March 30, 1815]. Broadsheet, 12 x 7 1/2 inches. Trimmed close, occasionally affecting text. Old library stamp on recto and verso. Overall quite clean. Very good. A lengthy broadsheet description of the activities of Banda Oriental liberator Don José Artigas, and the tenuous hold of the independence fighters.....
Buenos Aires: Imprenta de los Expósitos, 1822. [5],397pp. Nos. 1-23 plus supplement to No. 22, paged continuously. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Outer joints and corners worn. A few pencil annotations. Occasional minor foxing. A very good copy. An extremely rare copy of the complete first.....
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[Buenos Aires. Jan. 16, 1812]. Broadside, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Small piece lacking from left corner of lower blank margin. Old library stamp on recto and verso. Minor dust soiling. Small repair in upper left corner, slightly affecting text. Very good. A broadside decree by the royal government.....
![GROUP OF SIX LITHOGRAPHIC VIGNETTES OF SCENES IN AND AROUND BUENOS AIRES]. Argentina](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM41253.jpg?v=1488345192)
Buenos Aires: R. Kratzenstein, [ca. 1855]. Lithographs, measuring on average 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, on slips of blue or white paper, likely clipped from the top of pictorial letter sheets. Light edge wear. Very good. Matted. An attractive group of lithographic vignettes of scenes in and around Buenos.....
![HABITANTES DE LA PROVINCIAS UNIDAS [caption title]. Argentina](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM5649.jpg?v=1504715515)
Buenos Aires. 1814. Folio broadsheet, 12 x 7 1/2 inches. Red crayon numerical inscription in upper margin. Some chipping at edges not affecting text, foxed. Good. An early piece of Buenos Aires printing. In 1814 troops from Argentina, attempting to unite Uruguay and Rio Plata with Argentina, invaded and seized.....
[Buenos Aires]: Imprenta Argentina, 1826. 12pp. Small quarto. 20th-century three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt. Edges and spine lightly worn, upper outer joint moderately worn. Contemporary number inscription in top margin of first page of text. Lower right corners of first two leaves chipped. Moderate age- toning and foxing.....
Buenos Aires: Imprenta de la Independencia, 1817. 11pp., with vignette on titlepage and official coat of arms on first page of text. Quarto. Half calf and marbled boards, neatly rebacked. Two-page note regarding this publication by previous owner dated Dec. 3, 1966 on front free endpaper and front fly leaf.....
Buenos Aires. 1847. 89pp. Plain paper wrappers, stitched as issued. Minor soiling and wear. Very good plus. Message given to the Argentine legislature by the executive branch; it is signed in type at the end by Juan M. de Rosas, Felipe Rana, and Manuel Insiarte. De Rosas served as dictator.....
Bath: William Meyler, 1807. [2],38pp. plus one engraved plan. Modern half roan and boards, spine gilt. Occasional minor foxing; minor titlepage repair with no loss of text. A very good copy, with engraved bookplate of P. Francis K.C.B on front pastedown. An anonymous straight-forward account of the British attack on.....
Bath: William Meyler, 1807. [2],38pp. Lacks engraved plan. Modern red cloth, spine gilt. Minor foxing to titlepage, else quite clean. Very good. An anonymous straight-forward account of the British attack on Buenos Aires in 1807, written "without any flourishing or prolix declamation on the calamities of war, the effects of.....
Buenos Aires. 1810. 3; 3pp. Small quarto. Modern calf, gilt. Each leaf neatly remargined on all sides but gutter with laid paper. Minor soiling. Very good. Two early Buenos Aires imprints, bound together in handsome calf, relating to the revolution in 1810 which was one of the first steps toward.....
Buenos Aires: Imprenta de la Independencia, 1822-1823. 208,193-200,31pp. Nos. 1-12. Nos. 1-10 paged continuously, pages of No. 11 misnumbered, pages of No. 12 numbered correctly [1]-31 for second year of publication. The first eleven numbers were issued monthly February through December 1822; the twelfth issue was published March 1823. Contemporary.....
