New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. 671pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Thick quarto. Cloth. Very fine. In dust jacket and slipcase. A sumptuous production of the National Gallery of Art, illustrating a far-reaching exhibition of European, Asian, and American art dating from the age of exploration.....
![ITINERARIUM; OFTE SCHIP-VAERT NAER DOOST OFTE PORTUGAELS INDIEN.... [bound with:] REYS-GHESCHRIFT...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM17755.jpg?v=1593711388)
Amsterdam. 1644. Three parts bound in one volume. [8],160,[8],13- 147,[90]pp. Three engraved titlepages, portrait of Linschoten, and thirty (of thirty-six) double-page plates (several folding), all in handsome original color. Folio. Old boards, skillfully rebacked in calf, retaining original leather labels. Some marginal waterstaining, some browning to text leaves, plates clean.....
Paris. 1777. Two volumes. viii,252; 279,[2]pp., plus plates. Half titles. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked in contemporary style, leather labels. Tanning and foxing, contemporary gift inscription on each half title. Good. Marmontel's novelistic treatment of the fall of the Inca empire was a huge success in an age that saw.....
Valparaiso: Imprenta Europea, 1849. 48pp. 12mo. 20th-century calf. Contemporary ink inscription on titlepage, small ink marks in upper-outer corner of pages. Occasional minor foxing on titlepage, light age toning in text. A very good copy. A rare mid-19th-century Valparaiso imprint encouraging Argentineans who had emigrated to Chile to return to.....
![SUMMARIO DE LA GENERAL HISTORIA DE L'INDIE OCCIDENTALI...(title given on verso of first leaf)]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM41694.jpg?v=1593711624)
Venice. 1534. 79; 64,[2]; [15] leaves. Double-sheet map. Woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary full vellum, manuscript title on spine, raised bands. Neat bookplate on front pastedown, old bookseller's label on rear pastedown. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Title-leaf and first leaf of text remargined, not affecting text. Slight.....
Boston: J. Kneeland, 1773. 35pp. Half title. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Ownership inscription on half title partially erased. Trimmed close at bottom edge, minutely affecting some text. Lightly soiled. Still very good. The first portion of the text is turned over to an interesting summary of the case.....
London. 1825. xii,478pp. plus four color plates, folding map, errata page, and [2]pp. of advertisements. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light wear to edges and extremities. Front hinge starting. Some light foxing to map, else internally clean. An attractive, very good copy. The author sailed from Lisbon.....
New York: Appleton & Co., 1858. 488,[5]pp. plus folding color map. Original blindstamped cloth. Spine faded and chipped at head, corners bumped and worn. Front free endpaper excised. Internally clean and bright. Very good. The map depicts India just prior to the mutiny against the East India Company. The author.....
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1852. Chromolithographic title with large vignette; handcolored frontispiece of heights of principal mountains and lengths of principal rivers; contents list printed in red, black, and gold; seventy-three handcolored lithographic maps, charts, and city plans (one double- page). Folio. Publisher's green marbled boards, morocco label lettered.....
Rouen: Jacques Cailloue, 1645. [7],442,[9]pp., including six of nine plates. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red. Boards rubbed, corners and edges worn, front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting. Early bookseller's notations in front endpapers. The second edition of this important account of an early French traveller, with the.....
Amsterdam: Jacob Meurs, 1671. Engraved titlepage, [8],585,[27]pp. plus seven portraits, thirty-one engraved double-page plates, large folding hemispheric map, and fifteen engraved double-page maps. Seventy engraved in-text illustrations. Small folio. Early 20th-century half mottled calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco label. Very good. Provenance: J.J.A. Poley (bookplate.....
Amsterdam: Jacob Meurs, 1671. [8],585,[27]pp. plus seven portraits, thirty-two double- page plates, large folding hemispheric map, and fifteen double-page maps. Seventy engraved in-text illustrations. Engraved title. Thick folio. Original vellum, blindstamped cover, raised bands, manuscript title on spine. Internally clean and near fine. Minor repairs to hemispheric map. An excellent.....
Lima: J. Gonzalez, 1825. 22pp. Later marbled wrappers. Later paper label on titlepage, a small portion of titlepage cut away not affecting text. Internally clean. Good. Posthumous essay by Bernardo Monteagudo, an Argentian politician, military leader, and revolutionary who strongly promoted Latin American independence. Only a handful of copies on.....
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.....
London: A. Applegate, 1823. [4],99pp. Dbd. Several leaves loose. Moderate to heavy foxing. Good. English translation of a pamphlet published by Bernardo Monteagudo, the year after it first appeared in print in Lima. In addition to the Exposition, a lengthy appendix, comprising more than half the volume, includes a biography.....
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.....
Buenos Aires: Standard Printing Office, 1866. xv,[3],49,[5]pp. [bound with:] Mulhall, M.G. and E.T.: HANDBOOK OF THE RIVER PLATE; COMPRISING BUENOS AYRES, THE UPPER PROVINCES, BANDA ORIENTAL, AND PARAGUAY. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. Buenos Aires: Standard Printing Office, 1869. vii,176,48,129-160pp. Contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine and.....
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.....
Philadelphia. 1855. 45pp. Later plain wrappers. Very good. An interesting collection of correspondence regarding what appears to be the illegal and fraudulent sale of an American ship, the North Carolina, in Callao, Peru in 1854. The North Carolina had made its way from New York to San Francisco, then was.....
Hartford: H. Huntington, Jr., 1838. Two volumes bound in one. 370pp. plus two portraits and colored folding map; 230pp. plus colored folding map. Frontispiece, engraved titlepage for the volume, and printed titlepage for each of the two parts. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt. Boards worn at corners, joints a bit.....
Amsterdam: La vefue de Cornille Nicolas, 1610. [2],61,[1]pp., including twenty-five in-text engravings and two full-page maps. Folio. Antique-style calf, spine ornately gilt, leather label. Contemporary inscription on titlepage. Very minor toning and soiling. A few leaves trimmed a bit close. Very good. Second French edition, following the first French printing.....
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.....
![VIVA EL REY. PROCLAMA DEL GENERAL OLAÑETA A LOS PUEBLOS DEL ALTO Y BAJO PERU [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM39281.jpg?v=1593711576)
[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.....
Madrid: Por Luis Sanchez... 1614. Title-leaf,[9],290,[4] leaves. Bound to style in full calf, raised bands, leather label. Spine ruled in gilt, boards blind-ruled. Woodcut coat of arms on titlepage and portrait of the author, with historiated initials and decorations throughout. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage, occasional contemporary manuscript annotations scattered.....
