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[Buenos Aires. June 21, 1811]. [3]pp. Dbd. Leaves nearly detached. Moderate soiling in upper margin of recto of first leaf. Old institutional stamp on recto of first leaf and on verso of last leaf. Good. An official printing of thirteen regulations governing the submission of petitions to the government for.....
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819. viii,3-358pp. plus folding engraved map. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine and covers gilt. York Subscription Library stamp on verso of titlepage and p.114. A very good copy. C.A. Rodney and John Graham were commissioners sent to Buenos Aires by the.....
Buenos Aires. May 5, 1823. 4pp. Folio. Minor wear to top edge. Very good plus. In this message to Congress, Rivadavia (Interior Secretary) and Garcia (Treasury Secretary) announce the recognition of Argentine independence by the United States and discuss relations with other South American countries. They also report to Congress.....
Lisbon. 1794. [8],iii,153,[4]pp. Half title. Small quarto. 19th-century black polished calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Bookplate of John Carter Brown on front pastedown, with his ink stamp on fourth leaf. Some light soiling on half title, else internally clean. Very good, untrimmed. The scarce first edition of.....
Paris. 1743. [4],iv,250,[1]pp. plus three folding maps and sixteen folding plates. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Spine bit chipped, hinges cracked and boards hanging by cords, corners worn. Small faint stamp on titlepage. Good, internally clean. The author, a doctor, spent three years in French Guiana. This work.....
Mexico. 1886. [32],[7]-86,[6]pp. Quarto. Contemporary three quarter pebbled calf. Binding a bit scuffed, small chips at head and toe of spine, internally about fine. First issued in 1714. This modern edition features corrections and additions by Dr. A. Penafiel. Basalenque was a late 16th to mid-17th century Augustinian serving in.....
Paris: Amedee Bedelet, Libraire-Editeur... [ 1858]. 51,[1]pp. plus twenty-three chromolithographs and in-text illustrations. Frontis. Half title. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Slight offsetting on text; illustrations clean and bright. Occasional light foxing and soiling. A lovely copy. The handsome lithographs by J. Bocquin, after drawings by Leloir and Fossey.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Two volumes. xxii [i.e. xxxviii],[2],387,16 [advertisements dated February 1843] pp. plus eight plates (including frontispiece); vi,[2],474pp. plus eleven plates (including frontispiece). Three folding maps in front pocket of first volume. Original blue embossed cloth, spines gilt. Spines sunned, minor edge wear, corners bumped. Bookplate on front.....
[Paris]: Jacques Guerin, [1739]. 18pp. Quarto. In plain blue contemporary boards. Occasional light dampstaining. A very good copy. In a half morocco box. The very rare first edition of Bellin's extensive account of his map of the "Ocean Meridional." The work includes lengthy separate analyses of the coasts of Africa.....
Basel: Sebastian Henripetri, 1582-1583. Two volumes bound in one. [20],ccxliii,[24],ccxlv-dcii,[2]; [12],cccvi,[2]pp., plus folding table. Titlepages printed in red and black. Folio. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, yapp edges. Rubbed, front hinge neatly repaired. Marginal tear in folding table. Internally clean. Old bookseller's label and later ownership signature on front.....
[Geneva]: Eustatium Vignon, 1578. [32],480,[12]pp. Lacks errata leaf. Later mottled calf, gilt leather label. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Tweeddale on front pastedown. Titlepage lightly soiled, contemporary inscriptions, small portion of top corner torn away on first two leaves. Top edge trimmed closely, affecting running title and page numbers.....
Geneva: Eustatium Vignon, 1578. [32],480,[12]pp. Later limp vellum, later ink title on spine, marbled foredges. Covers slightly bowed. Unobtrusive contemporary ink signature on titlepage, very occasional contemporary manuscript annotations, trimmed closely at top margin, not affecting text, moderate tanning. A good copy. First Latin edition of Benzoni's important early account.....
Odense. 1820. [2],492,[5]pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled, worn along spine. Occasional slight worming in inner margin of leaves, not affecting text. A very good copy, untrimmed. First and only edition of this Danish history of the revolutions which convulsed South America in the first two decades of.....
Iquique [Chile]: Imp. de "El Comercio," 1878. [4],74,xvi,[1]pp. Dbd. Light foxing and wear. About very good. Municipal laws of Peru, compiled by Guillermo Billinghurst, Secretary of the Provincial Council of the Tarapaca Region of Peru. Tarapaca was ceded to Chile by Peru after the War of the Pacific (1879-1883); Iquique.....
Chicago: Skandinavens Boghandel, 1884. 158pp. plus frontispiece. Original publisher's morocco, gilt, a.e.g. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean. Near fine. First edition of a contemporary account of the Chile- Peruvian War (1879-1884), a war in which Chile was victorious, written by Holger Birkedal (1848-1908), a Danish national spying on behalf of Chile.....
Danzig: G. Jansson van Waesberge, 1698. [32],405,[15]pp. Plus single page map and plate. 12mo. Contemporary vellum over boards, rebacked in modern vellum with manuscript title and date on backstrip. Boards a bit bowed. Light, even tanning. Good plus. First published in Munich in 1647, this book is often described as.....
Munich: L. Straub for J. Wagner, 1647. [23],480,[12]pp. Plus single-page map and plate. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, lacking string ties. Vellum lightly soiled. Occasional faint, old tideline. Very good. This book is often described as the first Latin edition of Pedro Gobeo de Victoria's NAUFRAGIO Y PEREGRINATIO, first published in Seville.....
Antwerp. 1542. 123 leaves. Modern vellum. Some spotting and thumbing, some occasional dampstaining. Small erasure and old ownership inscription on titlepage. Good. One of the classic works on the different races of mankind, first published in Venice in 1520 and here present in the first edition to include American material.....
Philadelphia. 1813. 260pp. Contemporary calf. Hinges carefully repaired. Scattered foxing. Just about very good. First American edition, after the London edition of 1808, of this voyage to the northern coast of South America in 1799. Bolingbroke, deputy vendue master in Surinam, provides a highly readable account of the geography, natural.....
Caracas. February 6, 1827. [2]pp. plus integral blank. Folio. Old fold; slight separation at fold. Light creasing. Very good. In a half morocco box. In this apparently unique broadsheet, Simón Bolívar tenders his resignation as president of Gran Colombia to the Congress in Caracas, Venezuela. By 1827 internal conflicts and.....
Bogotá. Aug. 27, 1828. [1]p. plus integral blank. [with:] SIMON BOLIVAR LIBERTADOR PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA...DECRETO ORGÁNICO...[caption title]. [4]pp. Folio. Old creases. Minor soiling. Very good plus. In a half morocco and cloth box, leather labels. An extremely rare broadside printing of Bolivar's declaration of dictatorial powers, addressed.....
Bojaca, Colombia. Dec. 23, 1828. 2pp. Folio. Minor soiling. Near fine. Simón Bolívar had long dreamed of uniting his new republics (which he had wrested by force from the Kingdom of Spain) by establishing a government modeled after that of the United States. By 1826, however, Gran Colombia's twelve departments.....
Chuquisaca: Tipografia de Chuquisaca, 1833. [2],33pp. In Spanish. Pages 17 and 21 reversed due to printer's error. Small folio. Gathered signatures, stitched. Contemporary ink ownership inscription ("Señor Dn. Manuel Capiede [?]") and later clerical ink inscription ("RM No 694") in upper margin of titlepage. Ink ownership stamp on titlepage and.....
Chuquisaca: Imprenta Boliviana, May 30, 1827. [2],33pp. In Spanish. Pages 17 and 21 reversed due to printer's error. Gathered signatures, stitched. Clerical ink inscription ("763 G.R.M.") in inner margin of titlepage. Minor light staining. Very good, untrimmed. In a half morocco box. The extremely rare second and last official edition.....
Sucre: Tipografia de la Libertad, September 23, 1887. Broadsheet, [2]pp., 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Several chips, small tears, and moderate tanning at edges. Top two corners torn away, and two further top edge tape repairs, not affecting text. Several tears along fold lines. About good. A Bolivian broadside.....
