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Lima Mourns Charles III — Engraving by Vazquez — A RARE Type of Volume
from an
Interesting Press
Rico, Juan. Reales exequias, que por el fallecimiento del señor don Carlos III, rey de España y de las Indias, mando celebrar en la ciudad de Lima. Lima: En la Imprenta Real de los Niños Expósitos, 1789. Folio. [2] ff., 169, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f., 50 pp., fold. plt.
$8750.00
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Fr. Rico, an Oratorian, describes the memorial services in Lima on the occasion of the death of King Carlos III, as well as the commemorative art work and its Neo-Latin epigraphs. Fray Bernardo Rueda's “Oracion funebre que en las solemnes exequias del Rey nuestro señor don Carlos III” has a sectional title-page and its own pagination.
The folding plate is of
the funeral monument erected in the king's memory. It is an extremely well executed, large engraving, signed by Vazquez and dated at Lima, 1789.
NUC and WorldCat locate only five U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Yale, Boston Public, Duke, Notre Dame, John Carter Brown). Searches of CCPB and the OPAC of the Spanish national library locate three Spanish libraries reporting ownership; COPAC finds no copies in Britain.
The number of “splendid ceremonies” books produced in colonial Peru is small: There is no census but we suspect the number to be around 20.
Other interesting aspects of the work are that it is an important source on the social and artistic life of Lima in the decade following the Tupac Amaru rebellion and that it is from one of Latin America's famous presses of “orphan children.”
John Carter Brown Library, Catalogue, 1493-1800, III,324; Medina, Lima, 1697; Sabin 73902; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 2546. Contemporary limp vellum with neatly inked title on spine; all edges inked decoratively. Old blurred stamp on front free endpaper, old single numerals very faintly on title-pages. Small tear in margin of plate, not into image. Overall a very good copy, very clean and with wide margins. (34668)
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Lima Mourns
Charles III
Rico, Juan. Reales exequias, que por el fallecimiento del señor don Carlos III, rey de España y de las Indias, mando celebrar en la ciudad de Lima. Lima: En la Imprenta Real de los Niños Expósitos, 1789. Folio. [2] ff., 169, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f., 50 pp., fold. plt.
$1275.00
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Fr. Rico, an Oratorian, describes the memorial services in Lima on the occasion of the death of King Carlos III, as well as the commemorative art work and its Latin-language epigraphs. Fray Bernardon Rueda's “Oracion funebre que en las solemnes exequias del Rey nuestro señor don Carlos III” has a sectional title-page and its own pagination; the folding plate is of the funeral monument erected in the king's memory.
Rare: WorldCat locates only two copies in the U.S.
An important source on the social and artistic life of Lima in the decade following the Tupac Amaru rebellion.
John Carter Brown Library, Catalogue, 1493-1800, III,324; Medina, Lima, 1697; Sabin 73902; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 2546. Contemporary limp vellum with late, neatly inked title on spine. Some foxing. Plate lacking lower half and small portion of upper one; a handsome skeleton (memento mori) archer is the focus of what remains. Bookplate sometime removed; rubber-stamps on several pages, including title, reading (yes, in English), “Bought of F. Perez Velasco October 1912.” (25771)
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ILLUSTRATED Bodoni Tribute to the King of Spain
Variant Edition Not in Brooks
Ridolfi, Bernardino. In funere Caroli III Hispan. regis catholico oratio habita in sacello pontificio. Parmae: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1789. Large 4to (30.5 cm, 12"). Frontis., [4], ix, [1], 34, [2 (blank)] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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From the Bodoni press: Sermon given by Ridolfi, chamberlain to Pope Pius VI, on the occasion of the death of Carlos III, King of Spain. The volume is dedicated to Carlos IV, whose father had been a long-standing patron of Bodoni's — and the new king did choose to maintain the printer's pension. The present example is
an unnoted edition, Brooks 384 describing the 1789 quarto as “4 ccnn. (la prima bianca, la seconda colla figura), VIII, 29 pp.,” while the copy at hand is collated as above, with a frontispiece, two preliminary leaves, nine (plus one blank) pages of preface, and 34 pages of sermon.
That is, Bodoni printed TWO quarto editions, each with a different setting of the text!
De Lama notes that only 1325 copies were printed of the quarto edition in total.
The engravings: The frontispiece, depicting the pope conducting the king's funeral service, was engraved by Raphael Morghen after Stefano Tofanelli, as were the headpiece to the dedication (a medallion with the profiles of Charles IV and his queen, surrounded by a cupbearer, a mother with children, and Athena with sword and scales) and the large vignette on p. 1 (another medallion — this one of the deceased — surrounded by a figure holding the pontifical hat and keys of St. Peter, a mourner holding a mirror, and Athena leaning on a pillar, accompanied by a lion). Three more vignettes, one incorporating the abbreviated Spanish royal coat of arms, were engraved by Giovanni Volpato after Tofanelli, and the text is additionally decorated with two engraved decorative capitals (unsigned).
All of the engravings were extremely well accomplished, with de Lama praising their graceful execution.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Of this quarto edition, WorldCat locates only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Huntington, Sacramento Public).
Brooks 384 (for another edition); De Lama, II, 55/56. Modern half red morocco and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled raised bands. First and last few leaves with light foxing in upper portions.
A very nice copy of this very attractive production, here in an unusual state. (40139)
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First Edition in Nahuatl — Andrade Provenance
Ripalda, Gerónimo.; Ignacio de Paredes (trans.). Catecismo mexicano. Mexico: Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1758. 12mo. [16] ff., 170 pp., [1] f.
$4200.00
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The first edition of Father Ignacio de Paredes's translation of Father Ripalda's Spanish-language catechism into Nahuatl. Both men were Jesuits, but in different centuries and on different continents: Ripalda was born in Spain in 1535 and died in 1618, never having left Europe; Paredes was born in Mexico in 1703 and died there the year this book was published, hailed as
one of the most important Nahuatl scholars of the period.
Beristain describes Paredes as being “outstanding in the Mexican language.” His volume was intended for use by missionaries, by parish priests, and by Indians: Indeed, there is a prologue
intended to persuade Indians in particular to read and learn this catechism. In addition to the basic catechism, the work contains fellow Jesuit Bartome Castaño's “Doctrina pequeña” on pp, 143–70.
The volume is illustrated with woodcut arms on the verso of the second title-page and bears many woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. This copy lacks the Ortuño-engraved frontispiece of St. Francis; it is often missing.
The Bibliotheca Mexicana was the private press of the great bibliographer, writer, and secular cleric Juan Jose de Eguiara y Eguren.
Provenance: Bookplate of the great 19th-century Mexican collector J.M. Andrade.
Garcia Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 56; Viñaza 341; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2286; Palau 269110; Medina, Mexico, 4500; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 210–211; Sutro 15; Sabin 71488; Leclerc 2334; JCB 1191. Mid-19th-century Mexican quarter calf with marbled paper sides; lacks the portrait (as often is the case). Front joint (outside) with small, excellent repair; last line of the the bookseller's advertisement on the verso of the last leaf slightly cropped by the binder, with a few catchwords being shaved also and parts of two decorative borders just touched (not taken).
A very decent copy of an important work with a distinguiished provenance. (41150)
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Rivera
Assumes the PRESIDENCY
Rivera [Cabezas], Antonio. A los habitantes del estado.
La Asamblea Legislativa me ha llamado a ejercio del Poder Ejecutivo por decreto de este dia, en
que declara haber lugar a la formacion de causa al Gefe del Estado. Guatemala: 1830. Folio
(30.7 cm; 12.25"). [1] p.
$2000.00
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A crisis has caused the Guatemalan national assembly to remove Doctor Pedro
José Antonio Molina Mazariegos as president and appoint Antonio Rivera, a liberal politician.
Rivera assumed the presidency on 9 March 1830, on which day he issued this announcement that
he had assumed the position and calling on the people to remain calm.
Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, and METABASE locate no copies. Tthere is no
OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched.
Valenzuela, III,
579. Light to tea-colored waterstains in margins. A good copy.
(30889)
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Returned to “La Silla del Gobierno que Ocupaba por Ministerio de la Ley”
Rivera Paz, Mariano. [drop-title] Mariano Rivear Paz,
Consejero Gefe del Estado de Guatemala, a los habitantes del estado y demas pueblos de la
republica. Conciudadanos: Quando en fines de enero ultimo fui arrojado por la fuerza de la silla
del Gobierno, que ocupaba por ministerio de la ley, tuve el honor de informaros de mi conducta
en aquellas circunstancias. [Guatemala]: Imprenta de la N. Academia de Estudios, 1839.
$875.00
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Dated 18 August 1839, five days after Rivera Paz's returning to office. He says
that the people of Guatemala, with the support of Gen. Carrera and his caudillos, have restored
him to his right place in government and that he hopes to bring peace and prosperity to the
nation.WorldCat locates only the copy in the Chilean National Library; no copy traced via
COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE; there is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to
be searched.
Irregular inner margin. Light to quite noticeable
waterstain running longitudinally top to bottom in one half of the leaf. Lower outer corner
damaged with loss of paper due to exposure to moisture away from text.
(30886)
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Travelling
to
Where
Few Wanted to Go
Robertson, John Parish, & William Parish Robertson. Four years in Paraguay: comprising an account of that republic, under the government of the dictator Francia. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. 12mo (19 cm; 7.25"). 2 vols. I: [9] ff., 236 pp. II: 220 pp.
$450.00
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First American edition of the brothers Robertson's wonderful account of their travels in South America culminating in their arrival in Paraguay and an extended residence there. They also recount the efforts to emancipate the various South American regions from Spanish control, compare and contrast Portuguese and Spanish America, describe flora and fauna, discuss native populations, etc. The preliminary leaves of advertisements for other books from the same publishers have their own additional interest.
American Imprints 52683; Sabin 71961. This edition not in Palau. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth bindings: black tape at top of one spine and onto the covers. Bindings show modest wear, publisher's paper spine labels slightly chipped; text blocks slightly skewed in bindings and light waterstaining in lower inner margins of vol. I. Ex-social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. (28891)
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An Insider's View: Spain's Postal System
Rodríguez de Campomanes, Pedro. Itinerario de las carreras de posta de dentro, y fuera del reyno. Madrid: Antonio Perez de Soto, 1761. 8vo (15.4 cm, 6.1"). Frontis., [14], xcviii, [2], 312, [2], 76 pp. (map lacking).
$800.00
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First edition: Detailed information on the Spanish postal service, its routes, connections to other countries, costs, etc., written by a Spanish statesman, historian, and economist who led the service and helped standardize its functions. The Noticia de las monedas estrangeras, y de los precios, á que se pagan las postas dentro, y fuera de España and Precio de las postas regladas de Europa have sectional title-pages.
This has an elegant emblematic frontispiece and an engraved coat of arms on the title-page.
Binding: Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt-extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped pomegranate decorations. Marbled endpaprs; all edges speckled red.
Palau 273666. Bound as above; covers and edges with abrasions, joints and extremities rubbed, spine leather with fine cracks. A copy lacking the map and priced accordingly. Paper browned in some quires by nature of the paper; otherwise, scattered light to moderate foxing only. A nice copy. (29257)
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“El Amor a la Memoria de
Mi Infeliz Hermano”
Rodríguez Galván, Ignacio. Poesías de D. Ignacio Rodriguez Galvan. Mejico: Impresas por M.N. de la Vega, 1851. Folio (24 cm; ). 2 vols. in 1. I: [4] ff., frontis., 311, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f. II: 336 pp., [1] f.
$950.00
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First edition. Born in 1816 in the small town of Tizayuca in what is now the state of Hidalgo, Rodriguez Galvan is widely credited with being
the initiator of the Romantic movement in Mexico. He wrote novels, poetry, plays, and was the editor of several periodicals, most especially Calendario de las Señoritas Mexicanas and Año Nuevo, El Recreo de las Familias. He died of yellow fever in Havana in 1842 at the age of 27 while en route to South
America on a diplomatic mission. A few of the poems in vol. I were penned in
Havana before his death.
These volumes offer his “Composiciones líricas originales” in vol. I and “Composiciones dramáticas originales” in vol. II. The frontispiece is a fine lithographic portrait of Don Ignacio, in Romantic style of course; there is a liberal use of handsome tailpieces. The whole was compiled and edited by the author's brother Antonio.
This first edition is uncommon in our experience as dealers in Mexicana.
Provenance: Masonic stamp, “Porfirio del Rio” on title-page; inscription to fly-leaf of A. Quijano, 1916.
Palau 273981; Sabin 72510. Handsome contemporary quarter red morocco with red mottled paper sides, boards rubbed; spine exuberantly tooled in gilt, bright. Foxing and spotting variously; provenance indications as above. (31961)
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The Watermark Points to
Printing in Mexico or Puebla
Roxas [Rojas], Alonso de. Al rey nuestra Señor, por la Provincia de la Compañía de Iesus de la Nueva España. En satisfación de un libro de el visitador obispo D. Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. [Mexico?, Puebla?, Madrid?]: No publisher/printer, [1650]. Small 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). 278 pp.
$6000.00
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The legendary feud between Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza and the Society of Jesus was acrimonious, lengthy, and rich in legal filings. The main point of contention between the opposing parties was the failure of the Society to submit to the authority of the bishops and archbishop of Mexico, and this had a subchapter concerning the Jesuits' refusal to tithe to the ecclesiastical authorities.
The present filing by the Society via its lawyer is a reply to Father Palafox's Al excelentissimo señor Don Garcia de Avellaneda i Haro conde de Castrillo . . . presidente en el Real y supremo [Consejo] de las Indias; el dean i cabildo de la Santa Iglesia de la Puebla de los Angeles, published 1646? (see: Medina, BHA, 6946).
Sabin characterizes the Society's reply as “rabid.”
There are two editions of this work: The other has only 131 leaves and contains a typographical error on the title-page (“lirro” for “libro”). In this edition the “Apendiz al Memorial. Aduertencias a quien lo huuiere leido,” pp. 242–78, is by Juan Antonio Jarque. The place of printing has long been a matter of conjecture because of the paucity of studies of typography and typographic norms in Mexico and Puebla in the 17th century. We admit to no scholarship on the topic of typefaces but do have extensive experience with the paper used in Mexico and Puebla in the 1650s and the watermark in this edition is that of paper widely used there.
Provenance: Bookseller's label of the Libreria de San Martin in Madrid.
Sabin 58279, 73620; Palau 209627, 275715; Medina, BHA, 6837; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, col. 252; Streit, Bibliotheca. missionum, VII, 1780. Not in Alden & Landis. Contemporary limp vellum, evidence of lost ties. Early owner's signature in lower margin of title-page, but lined through making it most difficult to decipher. (35317)
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A Prince, Accused of Heresy & Lust
Russell, John. Don Carlos; or, persecution. A tragedy, in five acts. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1822. 8vo (22 cm, 8.7"). xvi, 119, [1] pp.
$175.00
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Based on Schiller's play (which also served as the basis for Verdi's Don Carlos), this tremendously popular piece portrays Don Carlos as a romantic hero brought down by the machinations of both the power-hungry Spanish Inquisition and his tyrannical father, King Philip II. This is the second edition, following the first of the same year — in fact, the work was so successful that it went through six printings in that year, although contemporary critics were not universally fond of either the text or its actual stage performance. The author, Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, was better known as a reformist politician than as an author, serving twice as Prime Minister. Here he gives a brief overview of the historical circumstances in the preface, although he ruefully admits that “the two main props upon which the following attempt at a play is built, have no solid foundation in history” (p. v): that is to say, the Prince's devoted passion for the Queen (first promised to him, then married to his father), and the malign intervention of the
Inquisition.
Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
NCBEL, III, 1138; NSTC 2R21229. Contemporary tree calf, covers framed in small floral gilt roll, spine with gilt-stamped red and green leather title and author labels, spine compartments with gilt-stamped floral decorations, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls; minor rubbing to spine, joints, and extremities. Light foxing.
An interesting piece, in distinguished dress. (39827)
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“Tales Son los Deseos que Animan . . . a los
Guatemaltecos”
Salazar, Carlos. [drop-title] El Gefe Provisorio de
Guatemala a los habitantes del estado y de toda la republica. Encargado del Gobierno de este
Estado, mientras se reune el Cuerpo constituyente que debe decidir de su surete, no debo guardar
siliencio en unas circunstancias en que los suscesos de la Republica, que pueden sernos
trascendentales, llaman la atencion de los pueblos, cuyo bien estar es el primer deber de la
autoridad publica. [Guatemala]: Imprenta de la N. A. de Estudios, 1839. Folio (30.7 cm;12.125").
[1] f.
$875.00
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Beginning in 1838 The Federal Republic of Central America was torn apart by
civil wars pitting Liberals against Conservatives and the desires of the various states against the
central government, with constitutional issues at the heart of the controversy.The Liberals installed Gen. Carlos Salazar in January, 1839, as provisional president of
Guatemala replacing Conservative Mariano Rivera Paz. This was during a brief period of peace
between the two factions. Here in a decree dated 20 March 1839 Salazar offers to act as
mediator for any effort at a lasting peace.
No copy traced via WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE; there is no OPAC at
the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched. We do know of one copy in a U.S. library's backlog!
Irregular margins, tea-colored waterstain running longitudinally top to bottom in one half of the
leaf, date in faded old ink in top margin. A good+ copy.
(30885)
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Teaching Spanish to U.S. Students Using Canonical Writers
Sales, Francisco, comp. & ed. Colmena española; ó, Piézas escogídas de vários autóres españóles, moráles, instructívas, y divertídas. Boston: Munroe y Francis, 1825. 24mo (14.5 cm, 5.5"). 216 pp.
$300.00
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First edition of this pocket-sized Spanish reader prepared by an instructor in French and Spanish at Harvard. Sales has edited this selection of the great Spanish writers “con la vária significacion en ingles de las partículas, vóces y fráses idiomáticas al pié de cada pieza, y en el índice general; todo acentuado con el mayor cuidado al uso de los principiántes.” This latter clause means
the edition has accents on the emphasized syllable of each word, even if such accents are usually absent in written Spanish.
Among the authors excerpted are Cadalso, Antonio Solis, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Luis de Granada, López de Gómara, Gracián, and Feijóo.
Provenance: Early 19th-century bookplate of James Bruce.
Shoemaker 22193. Publisher's sprinkled sheep, flat spine with red leather title-label; binding scuffed and abraded, joints (outside) open but sewing seemingly strongly holding. Age-toning, and one leaf with an ink-drop not preventing reading; now in a basic phase case. By nature, expectably scarce, and in fact especially so out of the eastern U.S. (38424)
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Sammelband — Four Tracts Printed on Native Paper — One about Censorship
Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufina, Basilio. Exemplares de carta qve el Illo. y Rmo. Señor D. Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufina, Arzobispo de Manila ... escrivio al Muy Ilustre Señor Governador ... D. Ioseph Raon: con el motivo de haverse efectuado por un Señor Ministro de la Real Audiencia la supression de unos Impressos, instructivos de la conducta y doctrinas de los Regulares de la Compañia, dados al publico en Madrid con Superior permisso, y que conduxo a Philipinas la Fragata de su Magestad nombrada La Venus, el año pasado de 1769. de edicto qve sv Señoria ... mando pvblicar, verificada la dicha supression, para aquietar las conciencias de los Fieles de su Diocesi, y de respvesta en qve sv Señoria ... satisface a los escrúpulos de cierto theologo ... Manila: en la imprenta del Rey, [1771]. Folio (30 cm, 11.75"). [2] ff., 16, 6 pp., [1] f., 100 pp., lacks the engraved frontis. (only). [bound with the same author's] Representacion al rey nuestro señor Don Carlos III.... en la cual, trayéndose á exámen los principales fundamentos, en que se apoyan los regulares párrocos de Philipinas, para eximirse de la jurisdiccion de los ordinarios de ellas, y de su visita, en cuanto á lo que es meramente la cura de almas, se demuestra claramente, ser nulos, y falsos; evidenciándose con la misma solidex la injusta contradiccion, é injuria, que por los referidos regulares ha padecido en este punto el Santo concilio de Trento, y las bulas pontificias, las leyes de Indias, con repetidas, y las mas terminantes reales cédulas de S.M. preceptivas de la visita, que aqui se expresan. Manila: En la imprenta de la Universidad de Santo Tomas, 1768. [1], 39 ff. [bound with the same author's] Memorial al rey nvestro señor D. Carlos III ... Hecho con el motivo de los distvrbios, qve hán intentado mover algunos regulares de Philipinas, mal afectos á la jurisdiccion episcopal ... Manila: En la Imprenta de la universidad de Santo Thomas, 1768. [1], 12 ff. [bound with the same author's] [drop-title] Señor. El año pasa de sesenta y ocho remiti a las reales manos de V.M. testimonio de las deposciones, que de mi orden se recivieron sobre las discordias, que algunos regulares pretendieron suscitar entre este prelado y su verable cabildo ... [Manila: no printer/publisher, 1769]. [8] ff.
$8750.00
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Sancho de Santa Justa arrived in Manila in 1767 to take up his duties as archbishop, which included overseeing
the expulsion of the Jesuits. He was a native of Aragon and a member of the Society of Scholarum Piarum.
Bound in this sammelband are four reports or letters addressed to the crown concerning various matters relating to the Jesuits and to other regular clergy, all printed on native paper (a.k.a., “rice paper”). The Exemplares concerns the confiscation of books produced by Jesuits and the edict to suppress them. They had arrived on the frigate La Venus in 1769; but after reading them, the archbishop allows them to circulate freely. The Representacion addresses the authority that regular clergy want to exert in parishes in contravention of canon and civil law, including disallowing the archbishop to visit their parishes, while the Memorial deals with the attempts by regular clergy to disrupt the relationship of the archbishop with his cabildo. The fourth and last item gives further information on the same matter as the third publication.
All four items are most uncommon. Exemplares is held by no U.S. library, Memorial and Señor are held by the Lilly only, Representacion by only Duke and University of Virginia.
Exemplares: Medina, Manila, 286; Palau 296834; Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca filipina, 2516; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 342. Representacion: Medina, Manila, 278; Palau 296831; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 331; Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca filipina, 2513. Memorial: Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 332; Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca filipina, 2514; Medina, Manila, 279; Palau 296832. Señor: Palau 296833; not in Medina, Manila; not in Retana, Aparato bibliográfico; not in Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca filipina, 2514. Contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink and thong ties, book block loose in binding; first item lacking the engraving. Contents relatively clean, with two small wormholes throughout causing generally minor text loss (a letter or two, not whole words).
A fascinating compilation of scarce Philippine imprints. (40763)
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Grammar of the Tagalog Language
San Jose, Francisco de. Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala. [Manila]: Imprenta Nueva de don Jose Maria Dayot por T. Oliva, 1832. Small 4to (15 cm, 6"). 919, [1] pp.
$4500.00
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This is only the second edition of San Jose's grammar of the Tagalog language of the Philippines, first published in 1610. WorldCat locates just two copies of the first edition in U.S. libraries (Yale, John Carter Brown) and ten of this (NYPL, Georgetown, Smithsonian, Newberry, Dominican College, Louisiana State University, Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the American Philosophical Society).
San Jose was a Dominican priest who arrived in the Philippines in 1595. He is considered the father of Tagalog grammarians, and credited by some with installing the first printing press in the Philippines. Of this edition, Retana notes that his copy was printed on linen paper while all others he had seen were on “rice paper,” as is the present copy.
Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 2423; Palau 292360; Blake, Philippine Languages, 327; Walsh, Philippine Linguistics, 951; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 619. Contemporary limp vellum, yellowed, ties lacking; front free endpaper and title-page with old taped repairs; text block (itself strongly intact) loose in binding. Insect tunneling to approximately 50 leaves at front with some loss to print and about 100 leaves at the rear with small losses mostly marginal, not destroying sense of text; else good++ . (38102)
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A Legendary Liberator Says, “FAREWELL” — “He Dejado de Ser Hombe Publico”
San Martín, José de. Broadside. Begins: El General San Martin. Presencié la declaracion de la Independencia de los estados de Chile y el Perù ... Pueblo Libre [i.e., Lima]: No publisher/printer, 1822. Folio (32 cm; 12.5"). [1] p.
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Weary from ten years of war, sacrifice, and then the politics of the nascent Peruvian republic, Gen. San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, here
announces his retirement from public life. An Argentine by birth, San Martin's introduction to war happened not in America but in Europe where he was serving in the Spanish army against
England, Portugal, and finally France. After the peninsula fell to the French, he returned to America and fought with and soon led one of the main rebel armies.
The struggle lasted more than a decade, but on 12 July 1821, he took Lima from the Royalists, saw Peru officially declared independent on the 28th, and was himself named “Protector of Peru” on 3 August. Just about a year later, on 22 September 1822, via this document, he resigned his position and retired permanently from public life and service.
“The presence of a lucky soldier . . . is feared by newly constituted states; [and] for my part, I am tired of hearing it said that I want to be the sovereign.”
“Peruvians: I leave you with an established national government; if you repose in it all of your confidence, count on triumph; if you don't, anarchy will devour you.”
And with that he left Peru, returned to Argentina briefly, then sailed to Europe where he lived in several cities, only once attempting to return to America, but always maintaining a keen interest in the fate of his native Argentina.
Searches of WorldCat, NUC, CCILA, COPAC, and the Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico locate two copies worldwide: one in the U.S., and one in Chile. There is a very old unverified report of a copy in the Biblioteca Nacional in Lima.
Medina, Lima, 3704. Browning, age-toning, some crumpling and tattering. Small loss of paper along the wide bottom margin. No worming. Housed in a quarter red morocco clamshell box. (34159)
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Plate by Araoz
San Pedro, José María de. Apologia de Santa Teresa de Jesus, que dirige a las rr. mm. carmelitas descalzas de la ciudad de Mexico. Mexico: La oficina de Ontiveros, 1812. 8vo. [4] ff., plt., 44 pp.
$750.00
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This is the
first and only edition of a well-written and footnoted biography of St. Teresa de Jesús. It seeks to rebut negative criticisms and actual charges of harboring vice that had been contained in some 18th-century peninsular publications.
Neither
Medina, nor Palau, nor Garritz, nor the cataloguer for the NUC Pre-1956
entry notes a plate as present. The engraved plate in
our copy, which is signed “Araoz M.o,” shows St. Teresa kneeling
in prayer in her garden. In the background are a lake or a river and a mountain.
Christ is seen off to the right, emerging from a stand of trees near the water.
In front of the saint are some flowers and other cultivated plants which are
being watered by an irrigation system fed by a well; two symbolic doves and
a yearning (or dedicated) heart also appear. Below the engraving is a quotation
from Ecclesiastes that the saint used in her writings.
The engraver was Manuel de Aráoz, one of the first students of the Mexican Academy of Painting, a noted engraver, and later subdirector of the Academy's department of engraving.
Medina, Mexico, 10812; Palau 293431; Garritz 1569. On the engraver, see: Diccionario Porrúa de historia, biografía y geografía de México (5a ed.), I, 165. Without the plain wrappers one expects. Three pin-type wormholes affecting some pages, including the plate, not offensively. Discoloration along inner margin of title-page; soiling affecting edges/margins variably; upper outer portions of title-leaf, last two text leaves, and final blank most affected. Ample-margined copy. (27616)
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A Work Written for the
Discalced Carmelite NUNS of Mexico
San Pedro, José María de. Apologia de Santa Teresa de Jesus, que dirige a las rr. mm. carmelitas descalzas de la ciudad de Mexico ... Mexico: La oficina de Ontiveros, 1812. 4to. [4] ff., 44 pp. (without the plate).
$300.00
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This is the first and only edition of a well-written and footnoted biography of St. Teresa de Jesús. It seeks to rebut negative criticisms and actual charges of harboring vice that had been contained in some 18th-century peninsular publications.
Medina, Mexico, 10812; Palau 293431; Garritz 1569. Removed from a nonce volume. Without the sometimes-seen plate, which is not mentioned by Medina or Garritz or Palau; it may be not all copies were issued with it or that it could be added at an additional cost. Fore-edges closely trimmed, touching or costing up to a few letters of some sidenotes. Very good copy. (34495)
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Printed on “Rice Paper” on the
Archbishop's Press in MANILA
. . . i.e., the Ex-Jesuit Press . . .
Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufino, Basilio. Alocucion que en el dia veinte de enero del año mil setecientos ochenta y tres, cumpleaños del Rey nuestro señor D. Carlos III (que Dios gu[ard]e.) pronuncio a la Real Sociedad Patriotica de Manila. Manila: En la Imprenta del Seminario Eclesiastico, por Ignacio Ad-Vincula, 1783. Folio (29.5 cm; 11.5"). [1] f., 23, [1] pp.
$5500.00
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After consecration and service in Spain, Sancho de Santa Justa arrived in Manila in 1767 to take up his duties as archbishop, which included
overseeing the expulsion of the Jesuits. He was a native of Aragon and a member of the Society of Scholarum Piarum. In this address on the occasion of Charles III's 67th birthday, he expresses himself no friend of many of the Enlightment's ideas but
a staunch supporter of the King, his economic policies, and especially of the newly instituted practice of free commerce in the Spanish empire. On the other hand, he rails against England, its foreign commercial practices, and its ascension as a maritime powerhouse.
As the title states, this was pronounced before “la Real Sociedad Patriotica de Manila.” That august body was “congregada por estatuto en el salon del Real Palacio, y presidida de su protector el muy ilustre señor D. Joseph Basco, y Bargas, Balderrama y Rivera cavallero del Orden de Santiago, capitan de navio de la real armada, gobernador, y capitan general de estas Islas Filipinas, y presidente de su real audiencia, y chancilleria, director g[ene]r[a]l de las tropas de S.M. en estos dominios, superintendente general de la Real Hacienda, y Renta de Tabaco, y subdelegado de la de Correos &c. &c.”
The work is printed on “rice paper” (i.e., Asian paper probably from the mulberry tree) as was common in Manila during the period to ca. 1820. The typography is definitely provincial and plain, using only one decorative woodcut initial and no ornamentation on the title-page. The type is roman in a variety of sizes with a practice of using all capitals for emphasis.
The press on which this work was printed had been that of the Jesuits until Archbishop Sancho de Santa Justa carried out the king's order and expelled them; he then appropriated the press for his private use, as here. What had been only the fourth press to operate in the Islands, now with a new name, became the fifth.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only six libraries worldwide reporting ownership: three in the U.S. {John Carter Brown, Indiana University, Newberry) one in the U.K. (Briish Library), one in Spain (national library), one in the Philippines (national library).
Medina, Manila, 317; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 379. Recent marbled paper–covered boards (green and mauve stone pattern); red leather label on front cover. A few minor paper repairs to edges of a few leaves; a very few small pinhole type wormholes, not costing any letters; the brown spotting and staining peculiar to rice paper. Old, brief note lightly red-inked to title-page. Over all a very good copy. (33130)
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A Parish SODALITY Open Equally to
Men & Women;
A Very HANDSOME Certificate
San Sebastián Martir [Atzacoalco]. Parish. Mexico. [drop-title] Patente de la congregación fundada en la parrochia del inclyto Martyr S. Sebastian de Mexico ... Mexico: No publisher/printer, ca. 1760]. Folio (31 cm, 12.5"). [2] ff.
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On 4 April 1761 Juana Maria Francisca Altamira joined this sodality founded in the parish of San Sebastian Martir in Mexico City. She paid her 25 pesos and was given this very handsome 3-page certificate of membership.
On its first page is the Patent establishing the organization's “contract,” which is the usual one in such cases: Members contribute money and, upon their deaths, the congregación will take care of their funeral expenses and the corresponding masses. Much less “as usual,”
this sodality accepts women, while also noting that it doesn't admit elderly people, pregnant women, or sick people.
The second and third pages establish the indulgences that are to be given to the members of the sodality. On the blank back of the third page, a manuscript note records it that the owner of this patent has died and that a payment of 25 pesos was made to her family.
The elegant and elaborate first, “Patente” page is bordered on three sides by printer's ornaments and above the main text, within these, is
an exquisite large engraving by Jose Morales of Mary flanked by two male saints, St. Sebastian with his arrows (on her left) and St. Joseph with his blooming staff (on her right). Above her in a cloud is Christ with a chalice and holding the Host.
Minor worm meander in all leaves in one small area affecting the engraving and a small portion of the interior text.
Very good condition, with all manuscript additions legible (including signatures) and with the paper seal intact. (41002)
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Dictionary of the Tagalog Language
Santos, Domingo de los. Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, primera, y segunda parte. [Manila?]: Imprenta Real de D. Jose Maria Dayot, 1835. Folio (29 cm, 11.5"). [viii], 739, [1 blank], 118 pp.
$4500.00
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Palau gives the date of the first edition of this dictionary and grammar of the Tagalog language of the Philippines as 1703, with the next in 1794, followed by this in 1835. This conforms to the editions found via WorldCat; that same source finds only five U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this edition (NYPL, American Philosophical, Yale, Newberry, and Villanova). The earlier editions are even less well held.
Printed on “rice paper,” i.e., paper made using indigenous fibers.
Provenance: Bookseller's label of Deutsche Kunst und Antiquitäten Messe, München.
Palau 300543; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 637; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 2424; Blake, Philippine Languages, 330; Walsh, Philippine Linguistics, 1095. Recased in old limp vellum, recycled manuscript used for rear endpapers, spine lettered in an early hand; vellum yellowed and cockled. Booklabel as above. Title-page laid down and with old tape repair, closed tears to several other leaves, and some minimal foxing or staining; in fact, very good. (38101)
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Sardó, Joaquín. Relación histórica y moral de la portentosa imagen de N. Sr. Jesucristo crucificado aparecido en una de las cuevas de S. Miguel de Chalma, hoy real convento y santuario de este nombre, de religiosos ermitaños de N.G.P. y doctor S. Agustin, en esta Nueva España, y en esta provincia del santísimo nombre de Jesús de México. Con los compendios de las vidas de los dos venerables religiosos legos y primeros anacoretas de este santo desierto, F. Bartolomé de Jesús María, y F. Juan de San Josef. [Mexico]: Casa de Arizpe, 1810. Small 4to. [7] ff., 386 pp., plt.
$950.00
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One has here the standard and well-thought-of account of the Sanctuary of Jesus Christ at Chalma, the second most visited pilgrimage site in Mexico. The cave housing the Christ Crucified statue was a pre-Columbian sacred site and pilgrimage destination; miraculously the pre-Columbian statue with magical healing power morphed into the Christ image soon after it was visited by early Augustinian friars, who took over the cave and the surrounding area and build a church and religious compound. The original Christ statue was destroyed by fire in the 18th century.
In addition to the wealth of information here about the origins of the cave as a site of miracles, its history throughout the colonial period, and accounts of miracles occurring there, this work also has important
biographies of Augustinians of the 17th century who played important roles in the care and perpetuation of the site.
The engraving shows the cave, the Christ figure, pilgrims, and Augustinian friars.
Palau 302085; Medina, Mexico, 10516. 19th-century mottled sheep, abraded, missing spine label; spine is cracking down center, and volume may sometime split into two halves. Some brown stains, most notable in inner and upper or lower margins; lower outside corner of title–page neatly excised. Old ink notes and scribblings. (15035)
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(Satires). [drop-title] Suplica de los pobres al Doctor Don Francisco Bullon. [Spain, ca. 1710?]. Small 4to. [2] ff. [with] [drop-title] Segvndo memorial del pobre de las covachvelas al Doctor Bvllon, este año de 1710. [Spain, 1710]. 8vo. [4] ff.
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Addressing His “Amigos” A
MEXICAN War “Casualty”
Sierra y Rosso, Ignacio. Representacion dirigida al soberano congreso general. Mexico: Imp. dirigida por M. Castro, 1851. 8vo. 28 pp.
$285.00
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He Was a Member of
Sor JUANA's Circle
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de. Parayso occidental plantado y cultivado por la liberal benefica mano de los muy catholicos y poderosos reyes de España, nuestros señores, en su magnifico Real Convento de Jesus Maria de Mexico. Mexico: Juan Ribera, 1684. Small 4to. [12], 206 ff., coat of arms.
$15,000.00
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“Polymath” is the term most often applied to Siguenza y Gongora (1645–1700), and indeed he was a cosmographer, philosopher, chronicler, poet, biographer, historian, cartographer, and priest.
Here he is wearing the hats of a chronicler and a biographer, as he, “an intellectual friend of Sor Juana [Ines de la Cruz] and at the same time a man of science and religiosity, [writes] the history of the convent of Jesus Maria and the biography of some of its notable nuns.” His Parayso occidental is “a classic example of baroque[-era] writing on the monastic life of nuns [in Mexico]” (both quotations from Lavrin, p. 205). As such, the volume is important; and even apart from its association with the Spanish world's Tenth Muse,” it is
a basic starting place for the study of nuns, the economics of nunneries, and the political life of the same.
As is increasingly the case with Mexican imprints of the 17th century, it is
little found in the marketplace.
Provenance: 18th-century ownership signature on title-page and first leaf of preliminaries of the Conde del Fresno de la Fuente.
Medina, Mexico, 1328; Palau 312973; Asuncion Lavrin, “Cotidianidad y espiritualidad en la vida conventual novohispana: Siglo XVII,” in Memoria del Coloquio Internacional Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz y pensamiento novohispano (1995). Late 19th-century Mexican quarter dark green morocco with mottled green paper sides; binding rubbed and abraded, front endpapers with an old paper label and remnants of one removed. Pencilling on front fly-leaf and title-page verso; top margins closely cropped occasionally costing top of letters of running heads and foliation. Worming, chiefly in margins but occasionally into the text, not costing words, sometimes repaired; first and last few leaves with old repairs to corners and margins and a bit of text restored in pen and ink. Withal, a good++ copy of important work that is not often on the market. (34203)
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Securing Status & Privileges for a
Minor of a Minor Noble Family
(Sola Piloa family). Illuminated manuscript, on paper and vellum, in Spanish and Latin. Zaragoza: 1670 (27 September). Small 4to (26.5 cm, 10.5"). 9 ff. (one on paper).
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Diego Jeronimo Gomez, legal guardian of 14-year-old Antonio Sola Piloa of Burgos, petitions to have Antonio's status as an infanzon — i.e., a minor noble with a proven lineage free of bastardy, Jewish blood, etc., who enjoys certain privileges and exemptions — recognized by the crown.
A large portion of the petition consists of a history of the Sola Piloa family and of its accomplishments for the crown.The manuscript is accomplished
on vellum in a good calligraphic script in sepia ink, single-column format, 27 lines per page.
Painting and embellishments: Opposite the first page of the manuscript, beneath a bejeweled crown, is a large colored and illuminated representation (on paper) of the Sola family coat of arms: a castle with lions rampant left and right and charges of a crescent moon and a grenade, above a ribbon blazoned, “Sola Infanzon de Aragon.” The colors used are silver, red, gold, and blue.
The page opposite the coat of arms leaf, opening the text, is richly illuminated and decorated in more than half of its area with red flowers on stems with green leaves, and with two birds; the whole is contained within a gilt-ruled frame. Toward the end of the petition proper there are two lines of text written all in majuscules accomplished in gold, with red highlighting; and the first three lines of the granting of the petition that follows are also indited in majuscules in gold with red highlighting, and with green foliage and a bird.
The binding: Contemporary reddish-brown morocco over pasteboards, with evidence of silk ties now missing; gilt double-fillet border with gilt corner devices and gilt center device on each board.
Contemporary red silk guards protect all illuminated pages.
Bound as above. Small losses of paint to leaf of arms, else an artifact in excellent condition. (40314)
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Eight Comedias sueltas by
Antonio de Solis
Solis [y Ribadeneyra], Antonio de. Sammelband of 9 plays. [Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid: Various publishers, 1763–98]. 4to (21.1 cm, 8.3"). Various paginations.
$1200.00
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Antonio de Solis was a dramatist and historian whose Historia de la conquista de México, población y progresos de la América septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España remains a prose classic.
He is known to have written only ten plays: Eight are present here.
[drop-title] Comedia famosa. El doctor Carlino. [colophon: Barcelona: En la oficina de Pablo Nadal, 1798]. 4to (21.1 cm, 8.3"). 32 pp. “Num. 60" in the upper left corner of the first page.
[drop-title] Comedia famosa. Un bobo hace ciento. [colophon: Valencia: en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, 1763]. 32 pp. “N.60" in upper left corner of the first page and “Pag. I” in upper right.
[drop-title] Comedia famosa. Las Amazonas de escitia. [colophon: Valencia, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, 1764]. 32 pp. “N.68" in upper left corner of the first page and “Pag. I” in upper right.
[drop-title] Comedia famosa. Amparar al enemigo. [colophon: Valencia, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, 1765]. 32 pp. “N.85" in upper left corner of the first page and “Pag. I” in upper right.
[drop-title] Comedia famosa. El alcazar del secreto. [colophon: Valencia, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, 1765]. 32 pp. “N.86" in upper left corner of first page, and “Pag. I” in upper right.
[drop-title] Comedia famosa. Erudice y Orfeo. [colophon: Valencia, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, 1765]. 32 pp. “N. 89" in upper left corner of first page, and “Pag. I” in upper right.
[drop-title] Comedia. El amor al uso. [colophon: Madrid: en la Libreria de Quiroga, 1799]. 32 pp. “I” in upper right corner of first page.
[drop-title] Comedia famosa. El mayor triunfo de Julio César, y batalla de Farsalia. [colophon: Valencia, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, 1770]. 36 pp. “N.162" in uppper left corner of first page and “Pag. I” in upper right.
The Spanish National Library attributes this title to Francisco de Alsedo Herrera, not Solis.
[drop-title] Comedia famosa. La gitanilla de Madrid. [colophon: Valencia, en la Imprenta de Joseph, y Thomàs de Orga, 1780]. 32 pp. “N.232" in upper left corner of first page and “Pag. I” in upper right.
Binding: Full dark caramel calf single-ruled in gilt around blind-ruled border, gilt board edges and blind-patterned turn-ins, spine gilt extra with two black spine labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and brown speckled edges, green ribbon place holder.
Provenance: 19th-century bookplate of Robert Henry Clive on rear pastedown.
On the comedias sueltas, see: Bergman & Szmuk, Comedias Sueltas; McKnight & Jones, Catalogue of Comedias Sueltas; Sullivan & Bershas, Comedias Sueltas. Bound as above; extremities rubbed with loss to gilt on board edges, joints starting but volume strong, boards with a few stains and scratches. Sticker on front free endpaper. Gentle age-toning and occasional cases of foxing, most noticeable in El amor al uso, otherwise
clean and crisp. (30950)
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