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EXILE in “NEW-YORK”
Páez, José Antonio. Broadside. Begins: "A los venezolanos." New-York, 21 October 1853. Folio (30.7 cm, 12"). [1] p.
$750.00
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In this address to his fellow Venezuelans, Paéz (17901873), the exiled general and former presidentwho would serve as president yet again in the early 1860sdenies any part in revolutionary conspiracies against the regime of General José Gregorio Monagas (17981858), then ruling Venezuela. Páez probably drew upon the pen of D. Antonio José de Irisarri (17861868) for the composition of this publication.
Handsomely printed on a single sheet, in two columns.
Rare: We fail to trace this piece of exile writing via WorldCat, NUC Pre-1956, or Palau.
In good/very good condition, save for short tears to margins. Good Venezuelan item. (3115)
(Pascal, Blaise). Carta de un leonés a uno de los suscritores a la reimpresion de las Cartas provinciales de Pascal. México: Impr. de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1842. Small 4to. 16 pp.
$150.00
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Will Pascal ever be admitted to the libraries of devout Roman Catholics? The author of this extended essay, who styles himself "Un Leonés" and who signs himself with the initials "J.I.A.," cautions a supposed subscriber to a new edition of Pascal's letters that they are riddled with Jansenist heresy and that the pope still prohibits the devout from reading them.
Sutro 756 ("19p." being a typographical error for collation given here); not in Steele, Independent Mexico: A Collection of Mexican Pamphlets in the Bodleian Library. Folded and never sewn or bound; as issued. (4992)

Missionary in Mexico — Fine Press Production
Pascoe, James (1841–88). Mission work in Mexico: Reprinted from The Sword and the Trowel, London, 1886. Tacambaro: Taller Martin Pescador, 2020. 8vo (25.5 cm, 10"). [1 (blank)] f., 15 [i.e., 14] pp., [2] ff.; illus., photos.
$65.00
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Master Printer Juan Pascoe has found a copy of his great grandfather’s own account of religion in Mexico and his missionary work there, and as a tribute to him Juan has produced a nicely illustrated and handsomely printed edition of that article, which appeared in Spurgeon’s famous periodical, The Sword and the Trowel. The illustrations are two cuts of 19th-century presses, three tipped-in photographs (one of James, another of James’ mother-in-law, and the third of one of James’ daughters), and a title-page cut reproduced from
the only illustration ascribed to James himself in his long-running periodical.
Limited to 56 (unnumbered) copies.
New. Sewn in stiff wrappers with printed label on front wrapper. (41109)
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PASCOE on CÉSAR
Pascoe, Juan (comp., ed., intro., contrib.). Cornelio Adrián César: Impresor flamenco en México, 1597–1633. Volume I: 15971604. [Tacambaro, Mexico]: El Taller Martìn [sic] Pescador, en colaboración con la Biblioteca Francisco de Burgoa de Oaxaca y The John Carter Brown Library, 2017. 4to (29.8 cm; 11.5"). 410 pp., illus.
$145.00
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The most detailed bio-bibliographical study to date of one of Mexico's greatest colonial-era printers, incorporating Juan Pascoe's keen-eyed assessment, as a practicing handpress printer, of César's skill as a printer. Essays are from the pens of Juan Pascoe, José Toribio Medina, Emilio Valtó, Enrique [i.e., Henry] Wagner, Román Zulaica Gárate, Alexandre A.M. Stols, María Grañén Porrúa, Bas van Doesburg, and Jack Asworth. The volume covers César's work through 1604; vol. II is in the research stage and will be printed after 2020.
An absolute “must have” for all academic libraries, all scholars of the book in Mexico, and anyone interested in fine printing in a colonial setting.
Publisher's wrappers printed in black and red; illustrations in black and white and in color.
A very handsome production. (38187)
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A Thoughtful Study — A Lovely Book
Pascoe, Juan. An early Mexican typographic ornament / 1554–1686. Santa Rosa, Tacámbaro, Michoacán, Mexico: Taller Martín Pescador, 2019. Small 8vo (23 cnm 9"). 39, [1 (blank)] pp., color illus., facsims.
$37.50
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Pascoe, Mexico's greatest modern hand-printer, has long made a study of early Mexican printing, printers, and typography. Here he traces the use of a fourchée cross designed, cut, and cast by Antonio Espinosa, first used in 1554, that subsequently was part of the typographic repertoire of Pedro Balli, Antonio Ricardo, Pedro Ocharte, Melchor Ocharte, Diego López Dávalos, Enrico Martinez, Cornelio Adrián César, and Juan Ruíz.
In addition to discussion of this ornament's use by those various printers, Pascoe also offers interesting and sometimes new biographical information on the printers based on archival documents. His assessment of each printer's skills is informed by his own eye and decades of experience as a hand-press printer.
His text is illustrated by more than 20 color illustrations and by examples of each printer's signature.
In all, a totally satisfying work on the skills and personalities and, at times, the tribulations of these early New World printers — itself beautifully printed in Pascoe's own unmistakable style.
Issued in a strong soft white cover printed in black and red, within a dove grey typographic over-wrapper printed in darker grey and red. As new. (40046)
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The History & Bibliography of
The Taller Martín Pescador
(through 2014)
Pascoe, Juan. Taller Martín Pescador, anecdotario y bibliografía / 1971–2014. Oaxaca: Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca, Huipulco, Tlalpan, 2014. 4to (31 cm, 12"). 208 pp., illus., (some color)., facsims.
$95.00
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A history of Taller Martín Pescador, master printer and typographer Juan Pascoe's fine press atelier in Tacámbaro, Michoacán, Mexico. The volume, which is in Spanish, includes a history of Pascoe, his family beginning with his great grandfather, and his press, as well as press publication history, information about projects, and a complete list of published works (pp. 144–207) through November of 2014.
The introduction (pp. 5–7) is by María Isabel Grañén Porrúa.
Limited to 500 copies printed in November, 2014, in “Talleres de Offset Rebosán” in Mexico City. As of late June, 2020, WorldCat reports only seven libraries, all in the U.S., reporting ownership.
Stiff wrappers. New. (41143)
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Popular Literature — “A True Relation & a Curious Romance”
Pavón, Gonzalo. [drop-title] Verdadera relacion y curioso romance, en que se dà cuenta y declara la descripcion y grandeza del Templo de Salomon. Primera [– segunda] parte. [colophon: Màlaga: Felix de Casas y Martinez, 1789]. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8"). I: [2] ff; II: [2] ff.
$137.50
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A woodcut illustration of the temple appears at the top of each part. Both parts are verse tales.
Apparently not in Palau. Repairs to first leaf of part I, with loss of a very few words; close trimming of two pages touching some lines without actually taking type (this last suggesting the hasty production typical of such cheap, essentially ephemeral publications). (38510)
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Celebrating the
Baptism of a Princess
(From the Press of a Woman Printer)
Pellicer de Touar [Tovar], José. Piramide baptismal, o inscripcion cronologica, historica, genealogica, i panegirica ... Dedicada a las felicissimas memorias del sacro, soberano, i real baptismo, de la serenissima Infante de Ambas Españas Doña Maria Teresa Bibiana de Austria. Madrid: Por la viuda de Alonso Martin, 1638. Folio (28.2 cm, 11.1"). [4], 6 ff.
$750.00
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Known for his Avisos históricos, Pellicer — along with other literary lights — here provides encomium, history, and genealogy on the occasion of the baptism of María Teresa of Spain. The author’s name is also sometimes given as Joseph Pellicer y Ossau de Tovar (alternatively Touar/Tobar), with numerous other variants seen. This is a scarce publication: WorldCat finds no U.S. holdings and only three European ones, in the national libraries of Spain, Germany, and Britain.
From an interesting woman printer whose works seem often to be held ONLY in the Biblioteca Nacional de EspaƱa.
Palau 216717. Removed from a nonce volume with “spine” reinforced in effective but rough ways; trimmed closely, with shouldernotes and first or last few letters of some leaves shaved. Two leaves with a tear from upper margin extending deeply into text, old repair now discolored and obscuring a few words; old, light waterstaining.
A survivor. (17683)

Mystic or Pragmatic Wife?
Pérez Galdós, Benito. La loca de la casa, comedia en cuatro actos. Madrid: Imprenta de la Guirnalda, 1893. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.15"). [8], 294 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: Acclaimed play from a prominent Spanish realist author, addressing issues of class, materialism, and feminism.
Palau 220783. Contemporary quarter maroon sheep and red pebbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; spine attractively darkened, edges and extremities rubbed, sides with spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with private shelf-code sticker; title-page with private collector's rubber-stamp. Pages age-toned, with some scattered small smudges or spots of light staining. (29936)
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Four Classic
Spanish Novelas Neatly Bound
Pérez Galdós, Benito. La sombra. Celin. Tropiquillos. Theros. Madrid: Imprenta de La Guirnalda, 1890. 8vo (17.9 cm, 7"). [10], [5]–257, [3 (2 adv.)] pp.
$100.00
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First edition of this collection of four works by a prominent Spanish realist author.
Palau 220773. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt-stamped red leather title-label; minor wear to edges and extremities. Half-title rubber-stamped, no other markings. Pages age-toned with a few scattered instances of faint spotting or smudging. (29867)
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Baja, Florida, Spanish Southwest, & Northern Mexico
Perez de Ribas, Andres. Historia de los triumphos de nuestra santa fee entre gentes las mas barbaras, y fieras del nuevo Orbe, conseguidos por los soldados de la Milicia de la Compañia de Iesus en las missiones e la prouincia de Nueua-España ... Madrid: Por Alo[n]so de Paredes, 1645. Folio. [20] ff., 763, [1] pp.
$37,500.00
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A great rarity of the Spanish Southwest, and still the dominant history of the region and of Jesuit activities there for the period from 1590 to 1644, the Historia provides an
unparalleled description of the upper part of Mexico and what is now the southwest region of the United States in the first half of the 17th century.
Andres Perez de Ribas (1576–1655) joined the Jesuit order in 1602 and arrived in Mexico in 1604 to proselytize among the native Indians. He was assigned to the area of northern Sinaloa, along the Pacific coast, and showed great ability from the start. Within a year he had baptized all the members of the Ahome nation and a large part of the Suaqui tribe, together about 10,000 natives. In 1617 he was instrumental in the pacification and conversion of the Yaqui tribe. Perez de Ribas was recalled to Mexico City in 1620 to work in the college there, eventually becoming a provincial of the school. He returned to Rome in 1643, undertaking the present history (which he completed in 1644) and other histories still found only in manuscript.
The work is divided into twelve parts, cumulatively giving a history of Jesuit activities in Mexico and the American Southwest, as well as providing a social and cultural examination of Indian customs, manners, rites, and superstitions. The first part of the book gives a history of Sinaloa and its people before the arrival of the Spanish. Parts two to eleven describe the arrival of the Spanish and the Jesuits in upper Mexico and their activities among the several tribes, including the conversion of the Hiaqui tribe, and the missions at Topia, San Andres, Parras, and Laguna Grande, as well as the conversion of the Tepeguanes and their subsequent rebellion. The final part discusses missionary activities in other parts of New Spain, including
an account of the martyrdom of nine Jesuit missionaries in Florida in 1566.
There is also some information on Baja California.
“Obra de extremo interes acerca de las actividades de los jesuitas en Sinaloa, California y Florida” (Palau). Of Perez de Ribas' Historia Bancroft writes: “It is a complete history of Jesuit work in Nueva Vizcaya, practically the only history the country had from 1590 to 1644, written not only by a contemporary author but by a prominent actor in the events narrated, who had access to all the voluminous correspondence of his order, comparatively few of which documents have been preserved. In short, Ribas wrote under the most favourable circumstances and made good use of his opportunities.”
Provenance: On the upper edges of the volume is the colonial-era marca de fuego of the Seminario Conciliar de México.
Perez de Ribas' work is exceedingly rare on the market. In forty years of bookselling, this is only the second copy we have handled.
Very important and desirable.
Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 43; Alden & Landis 645/96; Sabin 60895, 70789; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 525; Servies 176. JCB (3), II, 333. Medina, BHA, 1083; Palau 222254; Streit 1745; Barrett 1984; Bell P169; Howgego R35; Brunet, IV, 21590; Graesse, VI, 106; Leclerc, Bibl. Amer. (1867), 1305; Huth, Catalog, IV, 1243; Heredia 6836; Salva 3376. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, marca del fuego; hinges (inside)cracking, light soiling. Very small ink stamp on title-page. Light foxing and tanning to text; some very slight worming, confined primarily to margins in rear of text block. A few ink
notations and stains.
A very good copy in a cloth clamshell case, leather label. (34581)
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Able Bodied Seamen Needed for the Second Spanish-Portuguese War
— Even to the Point of Giving Amnesty to Deserters —
Peru. Viceroy (1776–1780: Guirior). Reglamento, e instrucción que ha de observarse en la formación de la matrícula de gente de mar. Que S. M. manda establecer en todos los pueblos que baña la agua salada en los de este virreynato. Exercicios en que ha de emplearse fuero militar de marina, y privilegios que ha de gozar. [in text, at end: Lima: 1777]. Folio (28.3 cm, 11.125"). [16] ff.
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When the second Spanish-Portuguese War broke out in 1776, the Spanish king knew that the strength of the navy and merchant fleet would be essential for securing a victory. To that end, the crown has here instructed Viceroy Guiror to create a register of all sailors, both merchant and crown, living in the ports and coastal towns of the viceroyalty, so as to have them in ready reserve. Guiror here promulgates the very detailed instructions for the accomplishment of that list. He first grants amnesty to all deserters provided they present themselves within six months for active duty/work and he goes on in the 72 articles of this statute to list those exempted, the age requirements to be maintained, the jobs covered by the register, the reserve's administrative structure, the hierarchical tree of command, etc., as well as specifying that all will enjoy the privileges and exemptions that the crown long ago extended to the navy and merchant marine.
Not found via NUC or WorldCat, but we know of a copy in backlog processing at the John Carter Brown Library.
Medina, Lima, 1431. Recent quarter red morocco with marbled paper sides. A very clean and crisp copy. (38955)
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AMAZONS — Illustrated!
Petit, Pierre. De amazonibus dissertatio, quâ an verè extiterint, necne, variis ultro citroque conjecturis & argumentis disputatur. Amstelodami: apud Johannem Wolters & Yserandum Haring, 1687. 12mo (17 cm, 6.125"). [6] ff, 398 pp., [6] ff., illus. (without the map).
$450.00
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Using classical texts and images Petit explores the possibility that the Amazons were not merely figments of mythological fancy, but actual members of Scythian society. Using texts from Homer through Juvenal and beyond, Petit canvasses the full range of opinions and evidence from contemporary sources. His text is in Latin; the Greek texts, offered in Greek, are translated into Latin as well.
This is the “Editio secunda, auctior & correctior,” following the very rare edition of 1685.
The
53 in-text engravings offer iconographic evidence for the Amazons. The majority are numismatic, showing portrayals of Amazons on classical coins. Some others show works of art, especially sculpture, and representations of what Amazonian weapons might have looked like.
The work begins with a dedication to Baudelot de Dairval and a full table of contents. The body of the text is organized into chapters concerning various aspects of the lives and types of evidence relating to the Amazons. There is an “Addenda” on pp. 381–98 that includes
discussions of Christopher Columbus, cannibalism, and Amazons in the New World. The book ends with another index.
European Americana 587/106; Sabin 61256; Hayn, Amazonen-Litteratur, 53. Recent marbled paper over boards, leather spine label. Added engraved title-page cut down with loss of imprint data and mounted; without the map, often missing. Light staining to the preliminary and first few text pages. Otherwise, a rather nice copy. (40385)
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How to Conduct a (Particular) Residencia Hearing
Philip IV, King of Spain. Manuscript document. On paper, in Spanish. Madrid: 31 October 1625. Folio (31 cm; 12.125"). [4] pp. (and 2 blank leaves).
$875.00
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Diego de Faxardo had been the corregidor of Merida del Campo and he is scheduled to undergo the residencia hearing that will assess his term of office. Here the king gives specific instructions to the residencia judge as to who should be called to testify and who should not.
This is a certified contemporary copy of the original with the official paper and wax seal (now desiccated and detached but present).
Very good condition with minimal bleed through. Written in a very clear notarial hand. (31210)
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The Land & Indian Problems
Pimentel, Francisco. Memoria sobre las causas que han originado la situacion actual de la raza indígena de México, y medios de remediarla. Mexico: Impr. de Andrade y Escalante, 1864. 8vo. 241, [1] pp., [1] f. [with the same author's] La economía política aplicada a la propiedad territorial en México. México: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1866. 8vo. 265, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f.
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Pimentel, the conde de Heras, essays two of Mexico's greatest problems of the 19th century: the condition and treatment of its indigenous populations and land tenure.
Memoria: Palau 226014. Economía política: Palau 220615. Contemporary quarter red morocco,
gilt spine extra, silk placemarker. Very good condition. (23064)
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The War of the Seven Reductions & Other Matters
Pombal, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquês de. Commentarius de republica in America lusitana, atque hispana a' Jesuitis instituta belloque ab his cum Hispaniae, lusitaniaeque exercitibus gesto, ex iis quae asservantur in secretioribus conclavibus legatorum, qui cum plena regum potestate negotia huc pertinentia en America administrabant, aliisque instrumentis certae auctoritatis concinnatus. [Lisbon: No publisher/printer, 1760]. 16mo (15 cm; 5.875"). [1] f., 77, [1] pp.
$750.00
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A translation into Neo-Latin of Relaçaõ abbreviada da republica, que os religiosos Jesuitas . . . estabeleceraõ nos dominios ultramarinos [etc.] published at Lisbon in 1757, and written by or at the instance of Minister Pombal. It was part of this minister's platform to reduce the power of the Jesuits and to remove them from the Portuguese empire; and without a doubt the immediate impetus for this work was the War of the Seven Reductions (i.e, the Guarani War) that pitted the combined forces of Spain and Portugal against the Guarani living in seven Jesuit reductions in Paraguay.This was, both in the Portuguese and the Latin versions, circulated as a propaganda tool in the diplomatic war that Pombal waged in Europe against the Society of Jesus.
Provenance: Ex-Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, with its stamp showing this a deaccessioned duplicate.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only six U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this edition.
Sabin 14962; Borba de Moraes, Bibliographia brasiliana,194; Palau 58290; Streit, Bibiotheca missionum, III, 747. Not in Borba de Moraes, Bibliografia brasileira do periodo colonial. Contemporary mottled paper wrappers. Neat, oval Vatican Library stamp on title-page and final blank. A very good copy, clean and with full margins. (34688)
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Popular Culture & GRAPHICS in Mexico
at the
Turn of the 20th Century
Posada, José Guadalupe. A collection of his pamphlet work and similar work by contemporaries. Mexico: Various publishers, 1880–1920. Most are 16mo (14.5 cm, 5.71"). Most are between 8 and 16 pp. plus wrappers.
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The oeuvre of Jose Guadalupe Posada Aguilar (1852–1913) is steeped in social engagement, satirical acuteness, and wry humor presented to the reader and observer in woodcut and lithographic illustrations for periodicals and chapbooks. During the late Porfiriate and early years of the Mexican Revolution, his art enticed the buyers of popular, very cheaply produced songsters; political broadsides; cookbooks; and single-sheet accounts of hangings, disasters, crimes, volcanic eruptions, and other sensational events.
Six of the publications here are signed, “Posada”; others are simply unmistakable; several are from his most famous publisher but were printed after his death and may or may not be restrikes. A few may simply be “in his style” and therefore, as part of the lot, invite considerations of his context.
The present collection consists of 13 pamphlet/chapbook items, with a good representation of books for children, women, and the general reader. They include a volume of popular recipes for health problems, two booklets offering embroidery patterns (with women at their frames on the pamphlets' covers and the patterns on colored papers), several plays for children to perform (“Les Gendarmes”) and for adults to read (“Don Juan”), compilations of patriotic songs and biographies, and so on. One wrapper is pink, two are gold, one front cover is printed in black and red; rear covers offer advertisements of the publisher's other offerings, within varied borders, and three devote the back wrapper to a poem.
The list follows:
1) Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio. La salud en el hogar. Tercera serie de la coleccion de 300 recetas utiles para curar las enfermedades mas comunes. Mexico: Imprenta y Encuadernacion, n.d. [ca. 1900–18].
2) Muestras para bordados. #9. Mexico: Publicadas por la testamentaria de A. Vanegas, n.d [ca. 1920]. Includes planchas 33–36.
3) Muestras para bordados. #10. Mexico: Publicadas por la testamentaria de A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1913]. Front cover signed, “Posada.” Includes planchas 38-40.
4) D. Juan Tenorio. Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [1880, date on rear wrapper]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil; Coleccion de comedias para niños o titeres. Front wrapper signed “Posada.”
5) Los gendarmes. Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1910]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil; Coleccion de comedias para niños o titeres.
6) Los celos del Negro con D. Folias. Mexico: A. Venegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1910]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil; Coleccion de comedias para niños o titeres. Front wrapper signed “Posada.”
7) La casa de vecindad. Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1910]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil. Front wrapper signed “Posada.” But rear wrapper indicates “la imprenta de la test. de A.V. Arroyo.”
8) Los novios. Mexico: [as per rear wrapper, Tipografia de la Testamentaria de A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1918]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil.
9) Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio, comp. El sarape nacional. Moderna coleccion de canciones para el presente año. Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1915. Front wrapper signed “Posada.”
10) Vanegas Arroyo, A., comp. La ex-moderna. Sexta coleccion de canciones para el presente año. [front wrapper: Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo] title-page: 1914].
11) Suarez, C. S. El placer de la niñes. Amar sin esperanza. Monologo. Mexico: Tip. de la Testa. de A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1918]. In series: Coleccion de monologos. Front wrapper signed “Posada.”
12) Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio, ed. La felicista: 13a coleccion de canciones modernas para el presente año. 1913. Mexico: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1913.
13) Coleccion de himnos nacionales. No place, no publisher, no date, [but certainly Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroygo, and ca. 1880, as per rear wrapper].
Because of their ephemeral nature and their audience, copies of these are generally hard to find. All items are little held in the U.S., many in only one or two copies.
Overall condition is good to very good. #1 lower inside corners nibbled by rodent; #10 seriously wormed; a few items with wrapper paper beginning to split along spine, shallow dog-earring to corners, or small chipping and/or short rents to edges.
An excellent gathering whether for teaching or “just” for enjoyment. (41203)
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An American, “Filadelphia” Ladies' Gift Book for a
Trans-American Elite Audience
Presente a las damas. Filadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.55"). Engr. presentation f., [4] pp., 32 ff.; 32 plts.
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First edition of this unusual and intriguing gift book for the then-emerging foreign market in newly independent Spanish America: a Philadelphia-printed collection of
32 single-page poems in Spanish, each accompanied by a steel-engraved plate. These are very Anglo-American pieces, despite their linguistic guise; present here are odes to the Schuylkill, Trenton Falls, and the Delaware Water Gap (with attractive and appropriate illustrations engraved after Doughty, Wall, and others), although Hampton Court and other, more exotic locales are also featured.
At least one of these poems appears to be an uncredited, partial excerpt from José María Heredia; some of the other content seems to have come from Carey, Lea, & Carey's Atlantic Souvenir of 1827 and 1828 and Carey's 1828 El Aguinaldo para el año de 1829 — a landmark production with which the nature of Spanish-language printing in the U.S., and especially in Philadelphia, changed dramatically, as to an ordinary output of political tracts and textbooks were added
luxury Spanish-language objects of artistic and literary merit designed for marketing to a trans-American elite. Carey printed four such gift books: this Presente a las damas in 1829 and three “Alguinaldos,” for 1829, 1830, and 1831. All were meant for ladies and to be presented to them by gentleman and lady friends.
Binding: Publisher's dark green morocco, covers embossed with arabesque designs surrounding a central gilt-stamped floral medallion, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Given to Doa Caroline [sic] Tagl[e] by her husband (as per presentation page).
WorldCat locates only seven U.S. institutional holdings (DLC, ICN, MWA, NSyU, NN, PU, PPL).
Shoemaker 40147; Palau 236614. Central block similar to Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 7, here with addition of medallion. This edition not in Faxon, nor Thomson, nor Tepper; see Faxon 59 for further information. Bound as above, variably sunned and with edges rubbed; pulled at top and foot of spine with gilt still bright. Interior age-toned with staining/spotting/foxing throughout, never dark but ubiquitous.
An uncommon volume representing one of the vanishingly few foreign-language annuals printed by an American publisher and an often unnoticed phenomenon. (38391)
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Early Christian Poet Bodoni Printing
Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius. Aurelii prudentii Clementis V.C. Opera omnia nunc primum cum codd. Vaticanis collata praefatione, variantibus lectionibus, notis, ac rerum verborumque indice locupletissimo aucta et illustrata. Parmae: Ex Regio typographeo, 1788. 4to (31.5 cm, 12.5"). 2 vols. I: [12], 71, [1], 302, [2], [303]–61, [3] pp. II: [4], 215, [1], 219–84, [2] pp. (text complete despite pagination).
$750.00
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First edition of Prudentius from the Bodoni press. Prudentius (348 – ca. 410) was a Roman Christian poet born in Northern Spain, known for the asceticism he adopted late in life as well as for his lyric (Cathemerinon, Peristephanon), didactic (Apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Psychomachia), and polemical works (Contra Symmachum). The Psychomachia is particularly notable as one of the earliest Western examples of allegorical verse, exerting much influence on the subsequent medieval development of that genre.
This is a typically handsome Bodoni production with wide margins, an elegant type, and a different engraved vignette on each title-page; Dibdin calls it “one of the most beautiful editions of a classical author I ever beheld.”
Brooks, Compendiosa Bibliografia di Edizioni Bodoniane, 361; Brunet, IV, 916; Dibdin, II, 360–61; Graesse 467. On Prudentius, see: Catholic Encyclopedia online. Recent half vellum and paper–covered sides, vellum edges graced with gilt single fillet, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels and with gilt-stamped Greek key design; binding discolored and a little bubbled from proximity to fire. Edges untrimmed, signatures unopened; vol. I with surprisingly various old waterstaining, sometimes faint and sometimes not, in upper margins of first half and outer margins of last few leaves. Interior of both volumes otherwise clean, with no markings, save that the endpapers are smudged and those untrimmed edges, plus occasional small areas of margin contiguous, are darkly smokestained from that fire.
This is a book that has suffered, yet a production that is still as lovely as Dibdin said it was and a set well worth having. (25517)
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A Landmark of
Spanish Gastronomy — Author's Copy
Puga y Parga, Manuel M. [a.k.a. Picadillo]. La cocina práctica. La Coruña: Litografía e Imprenta Roel, [1920]. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.6"). xvi, 511, [1] pp.
$400.00
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Best-selling early 20th-century manual of classic Spanish cookery, written by a larger-than-life lawyer, politician, and culinary writer known for his sense of humor as well as for his championship of traditional Spanish cuisine, particularly Galician. The recipes are given in narrative format, and include a
recipe-poem written in Picadillo's honor. This is the sixth edition, corrected and enlarged, following the first of 1905.
Provenance: Half-title with author's personal rubber-stamp: “Manuel M.a Puga, La Coruña”; also with La Coruña bookseller's stamp.
20th-century half pebbled blue cloth with blue marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped title-label; moderate rubbing overall, joints showing old refurbishment, back hinge (inside) cracked and reinforced some time ago with cloth tape. Personal and bookseller rubber-stamps as above. Half-title taped in between pp. xiv and xv; one leaf with old cellophane tape repair now browned, four leaves with old drop-stain of something light in upper portion, some corners creased, back free endpaper with corners chipped. A number of recipes are marked “ojo” in pencil, with other scattered small pencil or ink marks throughout.
A read and appreciated association copy, not showing any significant evidence of kitchen use. (36416)
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Doing
BUSINESS
in Mexico
in 1834
Quesedo, Tomas. Autograph Letter Signed, in Spanish, on paper, to Abraham Miller. Mexico City [“S.C.”]: 13 October 1834. Small 4to, [2] pp.
$125.00
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Ramírez Carrillo, Alonso. Manuscript document, unsigned. On paper, in Spanish. Peñafiel, Spain, 1621. Folio (31 cm; 12.25"). 15 ff.
$500.00
Detailed here is the last will and testament of the choir master of Popayán, Colombia. Ramírez was an absentee office holder, for he lived in Peñafiel, Spain, indulged in this failure to take up his duties in the New World by the bishop of Popayán—who happened to be his uncle. The choir master’s wealth was considerable and while not itemized as in an estate inventory, it is more than hinted at via the bequests here of real estate (with provenance), of silver and gold chalices and crosses, and of cash in the form of coin. The bequests also give an interesting picture of the size of his family and the ranking of nieces, nephews, etc.
Certified, contemporary copy of the original.
Sewn. In good condition. Very legible notarial hand. (7710)
Ramírez Carrillo, Alonso. Document (“escritura pública de donación”). In Spanish, on paper. Peñafiel, Spain, 24 April 1615. Folio. [10] pp.
$450.00
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Don Alonso Ramírez was the past choir master of Popayán, Colombia, and by this document gives various properties to María de la Puente, widow of Diego Ramírez Carrillo (Don Alonso’s nephew) and Doña Isabel Ramírez Carrillo, Maria’s daughter. The properties include a vineyard (“nueve viñas” that Don Alonso bought from Diego on 9 March 1591; another (“viña a Manzanillo”) that he bought from Juan Arranz, the elder, citizen of Manzanillo, on 7 December 1612; a third vineyard (“viña a Majuelo”) that he purchased from Francisco Santos and his wife (María Muñoz), citizens of Manzanillo, on 20 April 1614; a piece of land in Manzanillo, in the region called “tierras de las Tapias,” sown with two cargas of seed, purchased from Gaspar Decian on 6 January 1586; and a house in the parish of Nuestra Señora de Mediavilla that he purchased on 16 July 1605 from the administrators of the trust that Joratalina Sarmiento established.
A contemporaneous certified copy of the original document.
Written in a clear notarial hand. Very good condition. (14466)
We Have
NOTHING to Hope for from SPAIN
Ramírez, José Miguel. [drop-title] Nada hay que esperar de España, ó Esposicion que leyó el sr. d. José Miguel Ramirez en la sesion del 25 de junio de 1821. [colophon: México: Impr. Imperial de A. Valdés, 1821]. Small 4to (19 cm; 7.5"). 15, [1(blank)] pp.
$500.00
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Sitting in the Cortes in Spain, Ramírez proposes reforming the Spanish consititution to make it work effectively in Spanish America. An important, last-ditch plea that died after leaving his lips (or pen), as
just three months later Mexico achieved independence.
Garritz 5198; Sutro 270; not in Medina, Mexico; not in Steele. Removed from a nonce volume. Numeral in ink in upper margin of first page. (24535)
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Scary Times for Spaniards in the
Break-Away Yucatan
(Republic of the Yucatan). Group of 15 documents (see below for details). Campeche, Merida: Various publishers, 1842–43. Folio and slightly smaller (31 cm; 12.25"; and slightly smaller). 38 pp. (11 blank).
$7500.00
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The culture and politics of central Mexico in the 19th century often did not coincide with those of the Yucatan, especially after the dissolution of the constitution of the First Empire. The long-smoldering discontent that the post-Empire constitutions engendered reached the breaking point for the Yucatecans in March of 1841 and on the 16th of that month
the peninsula declared its independence from the rest of Mexico.
The Yucatecans were perhaps encouraged by the Tejanos and their successful separation from Mexico in 1836.
The four manuscript documents, two broadsides, and nine newspapers in this collection date from the period of the first Mexican invasion of the peninsula and the central government's failed attempt to quell what it saw as a rebellion — an invasion that was not repelled until April, 1843. Included here are: 1) A pair of letters dated Merida 17 and 24 January 1843, from Juan de Regil to Mauricio de Santelices of Havana regarding the political situation. 2) A printed broadside proclamation by President Miguel Barbachano (Mérida, 2 December 1842), imposing a heavy tax on and forced loans from the nation's industrialists, merchants, and professionals. 3) A manuscript extract from a letter (Merida, 21 December 1842) from an unknown Spanish national to Santelices, requesting assistance in leaving Yucatan due to the oppressive new tax, but also giving first-hand information about
military operations. 4) An Autograph Letter Signed, Campeche, 17 February 1843, from Geronimo Ferrer y Valls (Spanish commercial agent in Yucatan) to the Captain General of Cuba in Havana, expressing concern for the safety of Spanish nationals in the Yucatan and containing details of
murders and summary military executions. 5) A printed broadside entitled Opinion General, Verdaderas ideas y convicciones de las secciones del ejército del Estado acampadas extramuros de esta Ciudad (Campeche: José M. Peralta, 1843). And, 6) Nine issues of the Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo dated January to June 1843, most with
excellent content on Yucatecan resistance to the invasion by Mexico.
The Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo (published in Campeche by Jose Maria Peralta) is quite scarce, with only Yale reporting ownership of a very good but incomplete run. Present here are issues from 1843: 43 (7 January), 46 (13 January), 48 (15 January), 52 (19 January), 53 (20 January), 63 (30 January), 144 (22 April), 148 (26 April), and 189 (6 June).
Primary source material on the Republic of the Yucatan is rare.
Neither broadside is found in WorldCat, CCILA, or Palau. Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo is not listed in Charno, Latin American Newspapers, nor in CCILA. Some newspaper issues and one broadside are browned or partially so. Overall condition is good or better. (37063)
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Giving SMITHS Access to SILVER & GOLD in the Viceregal Mint
Revilla Gigedo, Juan Vicente Güemes Pacheco de Padilla, Conde de. Broadside begins: Don Juan Vicente de Guemez ... virrey, gobernador y capitan general de Nueva Espana ... Por quanto habiendose dado cuenta a S.M. con el grave recomendable expediente sobre diversas solicitudees de los plateros, batiojas y tiradores de oro ... [Mexico: No publisher/printer, 1791, 9 June]. Folio extra (41.5 cm, 16.375 ). [1] f.
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Viceroy Revilla Gigedo promulgates a royal decree abolishing several past edicts limiting access to the stores of silver and gold in the viceregal mint and here allows silver- and goldsmiths to obtain, with certain limits and requirements, the metals they need for their work.
The printer has opened the text here with a rather nice 5-line initial “P.”
NUC and WorldCat locate only one library (National Library of Spain) reporting ownership of the actual broadside, but we know of another in the National Library of Chile.
Medina, Mexico, 8091. As issued, with a later horizontal fold. One small wormhole through the folded document, touching one one letter in each half. (41008)
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