William Reese Company AMERICANA ● RARE BOOKS ● LITERATURE AMERICAN ART ● PHOTOGRAPHY __________ 409 TEMPLE STREET NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 06511 (203) 789-8081 FAX (203) 865-7653 [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com Boston Antiquarian Book Fair 2015 A color illustrated version of this list is available on our website at williamreesecompany.com. A Spanish Officer’s Service in 17th-Century Peru 1. [Acuna y Cabrera, Antonio de]: PAPELES DE DON ANTONIO DE ACUNA Y CABRERA CAP. DE INFANTE- RIA ESPANOLA DE ARCABVCEPOS POR SV MAG. [cover title]. [Various places, but likely including Madrid. ca. 1619-1647]. Twelve manuscript documents bound in one volume, pagination described below. Folio. Contemporary vellum, gilt-tooled title on front cover. Minor edge wear and occasional small tears. Overall internally bright and clean. Very good. The collected papers of a decorated Spanish military officer, assigned at times to the duchy of Milan, Buenos Aires, and Lima. The documents are: 1) EN LA NOBLE VILLAO VILLAD VAL- LADOLID A VIENTE E SIETE DIAS... [manuscript caption title]. [30]pp. Embel- lished with two elaborate vignettes high- lighted in gilt. A recounting of political conditions in Spain relevant to the early years of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. 2) EN LA FORTALEZA A DE LA VILLA DE JIMANEAS A NUEVE DIAS LES MES DE ABRIL DE MILL Y SIES CIENTOS Y TRIENTA Y UN AÑOS...[manuscript caption title]. [ca. 1631]. [34]pp. A long discourse on the history of the Inquisition, specifically concerning certain relations present in the Crown’s official archives. 3) VIENTE Y QUARTO REALES. SELLO PRIMERO, VEINTE Y QUATRO RE- ALES...[caption title]. [1646-47]. [6]pp. Official document offering an appraisal of conditions in Lima and La Plata. 4) [NOTICE OF THE PARTICIPATION OF DON ANTONIO DE ACUNA Y CABRERA IN A ROYAL TRIBUNAL]. [ca. 1647]. [2]pp. A simple notice testifying to his participation. 5) UN REAL. SELLO TERCERO, UN RAL, AÑOS DE MIL Y SEIS CIENTOS Y QUATRENTA Y QUATRO... [caption title]. [ca. 1647]. [2]pp. A memorial on behalf of Acuna y Cabrera for reimbursement for personal monies spent in official service. 6) JUAN DE AYCAGA CONTADOR PUAL DEL [?] MILAN...[manuscript caption title]. A list of artillery and infantry companies as recorded by Juan de Aycaga, a royal “accountant.” 7) DON GOMEZ SUARES DE FIGUEROA Y CORDONA, DUQUE DE FERRA [?] DEL ESTADO DE MILAN... [manuscript caption title]. [ca. 1619]. [1]p. A memorial relating to the participation of Acuna y Cabrera in the ad- ministration of Milan (under Spanish control from 1535 to 1714). 8) ANTONIO DE PORRAS CONTADOR PRINCIPAL DESTE ESTADO DE MILAN...[manuscript caption title]. [1632]. [1]p. A list of military companies serving in Milan and environs, composed by another official accountant. 9) INSTRUCCION QUE A DE GRANADA [?] MAESTRO DE CAMPO DON ANTONIO DE ACUNA Y CABRERA QUE VA POR GOVERNADOR DE BUENOS AYRES Y PROVINCIA DEL RIO DE LA PLATA [manuscript cap- tion title]. [1641]. [4]pp. An eight-point list of instructions for Acuna y Cabrera. His orders include surveying Lima, preserving relations with Brazil, keeping up correspondence with Paraguay and other regions, fortifying Buenos Aires, and making an inquiry into recent events in San Pablo in Brazil. 10) SON QUANTO DEL CAPITAN DON ANTONIO DE ACUNA Y CABRERA CAU. DE LA ORDER DE SANTT. ADMINISTRACION...[manuscript caption title]. [1637]. [3]pp. Signed in manuscript: “Yo El Rey.” Official docu- ment, signed by the King, conferring the Order of St. Augustin on Acuna y Cabrera. 11) POR QUANTO POR PARTE DEL CAPITAN DON ANTONIO DE ACUNA Y CABRERA...[manuscript caption title]. [1634]. [1]p. Signed in manuscript: “Yo El Rey.” A document similar to the above, bestowing upon Acuna y Cabrera the Order of Santiago. 12) POR QUANTO POR PARTE DEL DON ANTONIO DE ACUNA Y CABRERA...[manuscript caption title]. [1634]. [1]p. Signed in manuscript: “Yo El Rey.” Yet another confirmation of honors, here specifically noting Acuna y Cabrera’s service in Lima. In all, a diverse collection of documents tracking the varied career of a Spanish army officer at the height of Spain’s influ- ence across Europe and the New World. MAGGS 546, 375 (this sammelband). $8500. Magnificent Photographs 2. Adams, Ansel E., and Mary H. Austin: TAOS PUEBLO. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text and twelve original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6½ inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Large folio. Publisher’s half tan morocco and cloth, spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Light spotting to covers, light wear. Very good. In a morocco box. From an edition limited to 108 copies (this is copy number 92) signed by Mary Austin, containing magnificent photographs by Ansel Adams. Possibly the most famous of modern photographic works on the West, TAOS PUEBLO was a collaboration between the young photographer, Ansel Ad- ams, and one of the most evocative writers on the Southwest, Mary Austin. An elegant design by the Grabhorn Press provides a counterpoint to Adams’ photographs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and natu- ralism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular of photographers of the American West. “It was at Taos and Santa Fe that Ansel Adams first saw the Southwest. The time was the spring of 1927....His visit resulted in a Grabhorn Press book now of legendary rarity. It includes Ansel Adams’ photographs and Mary Austin’s essay on Taos Pueblo. Genius has never been more happily wed. Nowhere else did she write prose of such precise and poetical authority....Their TAOS PUEBLO is a true and beautiful book by two consummate artists” – Adams. Produced in a small edition, the book is difficult to obtain today. One of the greatest books produced by the Grabhorn Press and featuring beautiful pho- tographs by Ansel Adams, it is a landmark of American photographic depiction of the Southwest. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 137. ROTH, THE BOOK OF 101 BOOKS 58. Ansel Adams, PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SOUTHWEST, 1970, p. xxv. $60,000. Adams Defends the Constitution 3. Adams, John: A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST THE ATTACK OF M. TURGOT IN HIS LETTER TO DR. PRICE, DATED THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF MARCH, 1778. Philadelphia. 1797. Three volumes. 6,xxxiii,[3]-392; [4],451; [2],528,[44] pp. With a leaf of manuscript in an unknown hand bound in as the frontispiece in the first volume. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with leather labels. Contemporary ownership signature of John Lorimer Graham on titlepages, light foxing. Very good. Styled the “third edition.” The first volume was first published in London in 1787. The second and third volumes, issued later than the first, contain descriptions of the Italian republics of the Middle Ages as well as a lengthy analysis of “the Right Constitution of a Commonwealth.” This work is one of the most important and widely read of the many writings of the important Revolutionary figure and second president of the United States. At the time Adams wrote this work he was serving as the first United States ambassador in England, an uncomfortable position for a recent rebel, but he was ever ready to argue the American point of view. Here he forcibly states the principles on which he perceived the United States to be founded. The book was popular and went through numerous editions. Its issuance as the Federal Consti- tutional Convention was assembling added to its popularity and resulted in several American reprintings, and according to the DAB, “its timeliness gave it vogue.” Later, Adams’ detractors sought to find in it a hidden desire for a monarchy. This copy belonged to John Lorimer Graham, a distinguished New York City attorney, and at times Postmaster of the city, who had signed and dated the titlepages of each volume. Graham acquired the volumes when he was a legal student, in 1817. He also wrote out at some later point an appreciative appraisal of the work, bound in the front of the first volume. HOWES A60, “aa.” EVANS 31689-31691. SABIN 235. GEPHART 8687. $4500. The Aged John Quincy Adams Stays Home on the Fourth of July 4. Adams, John Quincy: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, DECLINING AN INVITATION TO A FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION]. Quincy. July 2, 1845. [1]p. plus integral blank. Old folds. Minor wear and soiling. Very good plus. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. Former President John Quincy Adams, now at the advanced age of seventy- eight and in deteriorating health, graciously declines an invitation from the City Council of Boston to attend the “celebration of the Anniversary of American Independence.” In an unsteady hand, as evidenced by the shakiness in his characteristic curling script, he explains: “Your obliging invitation...has been gratefully received and would have been gladly accepted but for a feeble state of health advising retirement from scenes of public agitation, even from those most congenial to the spirit of the day, and where the flame of universal Liberty first kindled still burns with primitive intensity and with encouraging anticipation. I am with great respect, gentle- men, your friend and fellow citizen.” $10,000. The Revolution Changes the Form of Prayer: Remarkable Manuscript Revisions to the Book of Common Prayer in a Maryland Parish to Eliminate References to the British Crown 5. [American Revolution]: [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRA- TION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORD- ING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND...