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1. ASTARLOA y AGUIRRE, Pablo Pedro: Apología de la lengua bascongada, ó ensayo crítico filosófico de su perfeccion y antigüedad sobre todas las que se conocen: en respuesta á los reparos propuestos en el Diccionario geográfico histórico de España, tomo segundo, palabra Naba- rra. Small 4to. XXIV, 452 pp. Contemporary calf (extremities worn). Madrid, Geronimo Ortega, 1803. £ 100.

Palau 18774. Salvá 2200, “escaso.”

The author mounts a spirited defence of the Basque language to contest the writings of Joaquin Tra- ggia’s Breve noticia de Navarra, inserta en el Diccionario histórico geográfico de España de la Real Academia de la Historia. “The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of interest in the Basque language within the Basque County . . . The author was primarily concerned to demonstrate that Basque had anciently been the language of all Spain, and that it best preserved the ‘perfect’ state of the ancestral human language. Astarloa, a native of Durango in Bizkaia, was not entirely devoid of analytical abilities . . .” (R.L. Trask, The history of Basque. London 1997, p. 52). Andrew Dalby (Dictionary of Languages, pp. 76-7) notes that “Basque whalers and cod fishermen regularly spent their summers around the mouth of the St Lawrence river from the 16th century onwards. The French explo- rer, Jacques Cartier, found in 1542 that the Amerindians of the St Lawrence shores could speak a kind of Basque . . . Having learnt it in contact with the early Basque mariners, the Indians naturally used it in speaking to the French and English explorers who came along later.” Some pencil markings. Short tear repaired in upper margin of p. 27/28.

2. ALMEIDA, Teodoro de: El hombre feliz, independiente del mundo, y de la fortuna; ó Ar- te de vivir contento en qualquier trabajos de la vida: obra escrita en portugues, retocada, añadida, é ilustrada con especiales notas por . . . Traducida, corregida, y exornada, con un compendio histori- co, un mapa geografico y otras notas Por el Doctor D. Benito Estaun de Riol, presbítero. Quinta impresión. Tomos I & II. 8vo. I: XLVIII, 56, 304 pp., with engraved half title p. & 8 engraved plates; II: 314 pp. (with errors in pagination), with 9 engraved plates. Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1787. Together with: [Idem]: El hombre feliz, independiente del mundo, y de la fortuna; ó Arte de vivir contento en qualesquier trabajos de la vida: obra escrita en portugues, segunda edición, corregida y aumentada con Notas y Estampas por . . . Traducida y exornada, Con un compendio histórico, un mapa geográfico, otras Notas y Estampas Por el Doctor D. Benito Estaun de Riol, presbítero. Sexta impresión. Tomo III. 336 pp., with 8 engraved plates & 1 double page map of Hungary. Contem- - 2 - porary calf (not uniformly bound). Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1788. £ 420.

Palau 7973 “su éxito, tanto en Portugal como en España, fué muy lisonjero.” Aguilar Piñal III, 1584. (Cf. Innocêncio VII, 304, “maior acolhimento obteve ainda en Hespanha” & Pinto de Mattos pp. 11-12, “obra estimada.”)

The work, which first appeared in Portuguese in 1779 as O Feliz independente do mundo e da fortuna, tells of the adventures, part fact, part mythical, of the early 13th century Polish ruler, Wladyslaw III, nicknamed Spindleshanks. Written in the style of Fénelon’s Télémaque, it enjoyed huge success in 18th century Spain and Portugal. Wladyslaw has been described as a “ruler of talent and energy, a just and capable administrator” (Cambridge History of Poland to 1696, p. 89), and though literary critics have been less than kind about Teodoro de Almeida’s literary style, the author makes interesting and precise scientific and astronomical observations throughout his novel (see Hernani Cidade, Lições de Cultura e Literatura Portuguesa, vol. II, pp. 228 - 331). The Polish connection is perhaps not surprising; in 1729 the Emperor Charles VI of Austria proposed D. Manuel de Bragança, brother of D. João V, as a candi- date to occupy the throne of Poland, though later support for him was withdrawn (see Ursula Kosińska, “Could a Portuguese Prince become King of Po- land? The candidacy of Don Manuel de Bragança for the Polish throne in the years 1729-33” in The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol.94, No. 3, July 2016). Vols. I & II are the fifth printing, and Vol. III the sixth. The attractive plates were drawn by Manuel de la Cruz, Maella and D. Velezquez, and engraved by J. Ballester, Simon Brieva, Muntaner, Fabregas, M.S. Carmona, José Assensio, Miguel Gamborino, Francisco Marti and J. de la Cruz. Ownership signature on front free end-paper & deleted ownership name on half- title of Vol. III. Front free end-paper spotted, occasional spotting & discolouration throughout Vols. I & III, very occasional spotting in Vol. II, tear repaired in upper margin of Vol. III, p. 59/60 & 171/172.

3. AROLAS, Juan: Poesías. 8vo. XIX, 494 pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Barcelona, Impr. del Constitucional, 1842. £ 30.

Palau 17228.

"Arolas impresses first and foremost by his brilliance . . What may at time appear to be ornateness is more often the sheer luxuriance of a fertile and sometimes voluptuous imagination," (Peers, History of the Romantic Movement in Spain, II, 209).

4. BEGAS, José Antonio D. y: Nuevo estilo y formulario de escribir cartas misivas y responder á ellas en todos géneros de correspondencia: reformado segun el estilo moderno y añadida en esta última edición. Small 8vo. (4) ff., 342 pp. Near contemporary vellum. Barcelona, Por Juan Francisco Piferrer, 1835. £ 80.

This edition not in Palau or Salvá.

This popular work was frequently reprinted. It outlines the frequency of the postal system in Spain, detailing the time taken for correspondence to arrive in different cities worldwide, and it gives guidance on such topics as communicating births, deaths, requesting matrimony, safe arrivals at destinations, and also commercial matters, establishing a business, commercial dealings, letters of exchange, etc., and ends with more intimate correspondence between - 3 -

ladies and gentlemen. Front & back free endpapers shaved at outer margin, otherwise a good copy.

5. [BELMONTE y BERMÚDEZ, Luis de]: Comedia Famosa. El Diablo Predicador, y Mayor Contrario Amigo. De un Ingenio de esta Corte. Small 4to. (18) ff. Wrappers. Barcelona, Imprenta de Carlos Sapera, 1764. At head of f. (1) recto: Num. 111. £ 180.

This edition not in Palau. Not in Catálogo de comedias sueltas conservados en la Biblioteca de la Real Academia Española, Bergman & Szmuk, A catalogue of Comedias Sueltas in the New York Public Library, Comedias sueltas in Cambridge University Library : a descriptive catalogue , ed. A. J. C. Bainton, Sullivan & Bershas, Comedias Sueltas, González Cañal, Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Fondo Entrambasaguas, Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Museo Nacional del Teatro de Almagro, Boyer, The Te- xan collection of comedias sueltas. Ticknor, History of Spanish literature, II, p. 339-341.

“Belmonte is best remembered for a good religious drama which he probably wrote, El Diablo predicador, in which Lucifer plays an unusual role. This play is a recasting of an earlier one, entitled Fray Diablo, which has been attributed to Lope” (Edward M. Wilson & Duncan Moir, The Golden Age: drama 1492-1700, p. 80).

6. [BLASCHE, Bernhard Heinrich]: Arte de trabajar en carton to- da clase de obras de utilidad y recreo. Small 8vo. 103 pp., (1) f., with 8 folding plates showing pasteboard models. Original green printed wrappers (stained and worn). Barcelona, Imprenta de José Torner, 1829. £ 380.

Palau 17767.

First edition in Spanish of this scarce and attractive book for children, which gives instructions for modelling in pasteboard, with 8 explanatory plates. It is a translation of The art of working in pasteboard (1827) , with a slightly different preface, which was in turn taken from the German original, Der Papparbeiter. The work was reprinted in Spain in 1831 and 1838.

7. [BULWER LYTTON, Edward]: Leila; or, The Siege of Grana- da: and Calderon, the Courtier. By the author of “Eugene Aram,” “Rienzi,” &c. Illustrated with splendid engravings from Drawings by the most eminent artists . . . 8vo. Title p., xi, 400 pp. With frontispiece, 2nd engraved title p. & 13 plates. Original cloth (neatly rebacked, spine laid down). London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, 1838. £ 50.

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Palau 36967.

First edition. By 1834, barely ten years after Bulwer the undergraduate was awarded the chancellor's medal for English verse at Cambridge, Bulwer the literary lion and best-seller was hailed by the American Quarterly Review as ‘without doubt, the most popular writer now living.’ In his preface to the less flamboyant edition of 1860 the author, notoriously thin-skinned, attributed the original edition’s lack of popularity to prejudice against literary works believed to be prized for their illustrations. A Spanish translation appeared in 1845, translated by Sra. D***, and another in 1860.

8. CALDERÓN de la BARCA, Pedro: Comedia famosa. El Principe Constante. Small 4to. (16) ff. Later calf (front cover slightly rubbed). (Caption title, Num. 12 at head of title p.) Barcelona, Por Francisco Suriá y Burgada, n.d. £ 350.

This edition not in Palau, or Bergman & Szmuk, A catalogue of Comedias Sueltas in the New York Public Library or Comedias sueltas in Cambridge University Library : a descriptive catalogue , ed. A. J. C. Bainton or Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Museo Nacional del Teatro de Almagro.

Menéndez y Pelayo considered this to be one of the playwright’s finest works and of those written for the Spanish theatre (Calderón y su teatro [Madrid 1884], p. 217). It was probably written in late 1628 / 1629. “The most prominent of these (dramas on a high sense of loyalty) is ‘The firm-hearted Prince.’ Its plot is founded on the expedition against the Moors in Africa by the Portuguese Infante Don Ferdinand, in 1438, which ended with the total defeat of the invaders before Tangier, and the captivity of the prince himself, who died in a miserable bondage in 1443” (Ticknor, History of Spanish Litera- ture II, p. 388). Bound with:- MORETO [y CAVAÑA], Augustin: Comedia famosa. Amor, y Obligacion. (Caption title, N. 112 at head of title p.) 32 pp. Valencia, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, 1766.

Palau 182565. Comedias sueltas in Cambridge University Library : a descriptive catalogue , ed. A. J. C. Bainton, 48. Not in Bergman & Szmuk, A catalogue of Come- dias Sueltas in the New York Public Library or Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Museo Nacional del Teatro de Almagro.

“Gracián called Moreto the ‘Spanish Terence,' and his best plays are indeed all comedies. . . [H]e could write sharp, balanced, witty verse with facility and skill. The dialogue of the best of his comedies is sparkling and unaffected. But the quality of his plot-construction is exceptionally good . .” (Edward M. Wilson & Duncan Moir, The Golden Age: drama 1492-1700, pp. 126). Bound with:- JIMÉNEZ de ENCISO, Diego: Comedia famosa. El Principe Don Carlos. (Caption title, N. 13 at head of title p.) 32 pp. (pp. 17-24 mis- bound). Valencia, en la Imprenta de Joseph y Thomás de Orga, 1773.

Palau 377167. Comedias sueltas in Cambridge University Library : a descriptive catalogue , ed. A. J. C. Bainton, 690. Cf. Salvá I, p. 639. Not in Bergman & Szmuk, A catalogue of Comedias Sueltas in the New York Public Library or Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Museo Nacional del Teatro de Almagro.

“El príncipe don Carlos is for dignity and refinement of characterization better than Schiller's Don Carlos” (Edward M. Wilson & Duncan Moir, The Golden - 5 -

Age: drama 1492-1700, p. 78). Diego Ximenez de Enciso, “a court favourite of Olivares and Philip IV, whose poetry was praised by Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Pérez de Montalbán . . . Not only probably the first play on the son of Philip II, but as important as Schiller’s Don Carlos,” (Ward, The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature, p. 303). Bound with:- [MARTÍNEZ de MENEZES, Antonio, Agustín MORETO de CABAÑA & Luis de BELMONTE y BERMÚDEZ]: Comedia famosa. El Principe Perseguido. De tres ingenios. (Caption title.) 28 pp. N.pl., n.pr., n.d. (c. 1701?).

Catálogo de comedias sueltas conservados en la Biblioteca de la Real Academia Española, 956. Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Museo Nacional del Teatro de Almagro. This edition not in Palau or in Bergman & Szmuk, A catalogue of Comedias Sueltas in the New York Public Library.

The play draws on an episode in near contemporary Russian history when the young Dmitri was promoted by the boyars, with Polish help, as the false heir to the throne, and the reigning czar, Basil (or Boris), refused to recognize him as his son, and it was based largely on a play by Lope de Vega, El Gran Duque de Moscovia. Bound with:- MORETO [y CAVAÑA], Agustin: El Desden con el Desden. 28 pp. (Caption title, Num. 210 at head of title p.) Valencia, Imprenta de Ildefonso Mompié, 1825.

Palau 182631. Not in Bergman & Szmuk, A catalogue of Comedias Sueltas in the New York Public Library or Comedias sueltas in Cambridge University Library : a descriptive catalogue, ed. A. J. C. Bainton or Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Museo Nacional del Teatro de Almagro.

Edward M. Wilson & Duncan Moir considered Moreto’s greatest masterpiece, El desdén con el desdén, to be “the finest of all Spanish comedies of [the comedias de fábrica], which aim at a more refined amusement that the comedias de capa y espada . . . This drama has all the dignity and majesty of the comedia de fábrica at its best, and also the smooth, almost ballet-like action on the stage which is a characteristic of good court drama of the Calderonian school. And it is a very funny play . . . " (The Golden Age: drama 1492-1700, pp. 126-27). “The polished and utterly delightful El desdén con el desdén . . . marks the culmi- nation of the genre of the mujer esquiva plays created by Lope some fifty years before . . . Moreto was clearly interested in female roles . . . and his women seem to take their men’s behaviour very much in their stride” (Melveena McKendrick, Theatre in Spain, 1490-1700, pp. 175 & 176). The play was imitated by Molière in his Princesse d’Élide. With the bookplate of Walter Prideaux (1806-1889), poet and lawyer, who rose to be clerk to Goldsmiths' Hall. Some discolouration & dust-staining, especially on first & last p. of each play.

9. CASEY, William: Nueva y completa Gramatica Inglesa para el uso de los Españoles, divida en cuatro partes . . . Revisada, corregida, y publicada, por A. Escudero. Small 4to. (4) ff., pp. 1-138, 143-199. Contemporary quarter calf (back cover worn). Buenos Aires, Imprenta de Hallet y Ca., 1826. £ 150.

Not in Palau. This edition not traced in OCLC, COPAC or Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires.

An apparently unrecorded edition of the work. The author describes himself as having taught English at the College of Mahon (Minorca), and he states in - 6 -

the preface that he had been influenced by George Shipton’s English grammar, printed in Cadiz in 1812. The fourth part includes an introduction to English conversation and familiar phrases. A printed note pasted on p. (1) states that the pagination jumps from p. 138 to 143. Slit repaired in p. 89/90.

10. [CASTRO y SERRANO, José de]: España en Londres. Cartas sobre la esposicion de 1862, publicadas en la Gaceta y coleccionadas en el folletin de El Diario. 12mo. Pp. (3) – 370 (with errors in pagination). Recent quarter cloth. Saragossa, Imp. y Lit. de Peiro, 1862. £ 220.

Cf. Palau 49038 (Madrid 1863 ed.). This edition not in COPAC or OCLC.

The author was sent by the Spanish government to attend and report on the London International Exhi- bition of 1862 which, dedicated mainly to industry and technology, attracted over 6 million visitors. Castro y Serrano was an excellent and acute observ- er of the times and customs of his day, and contrib- uted to the most prestigious Spanish periodicals of the mid-nineteenth century He is best known for his Cartas trascendentales, his works having been translated into English and French. Another 1862 edition exists printed in Madrid. Lacks half title (?). Printed on poor quality paper, pp. 49 & 158 badly printed but legible.

11. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de: La Galatea, dividida en seis libros, compues- ta por . . . Va añadido El Viage del Parnaso del mismo autor. 8vo. (4) ff., 431 pp. Contem- porary vellum (lacking ties, soiled, upper right corner of front cover defective). Madrid, En la Oficina de la Viuda de Manuel Fernandez, 1772. £ 300.

Rius 207, “esta edición de La Galatea carece de la Comisión Suma de Licencia, Tassa i Fe de Erratas de la anterior del año de 1736, cuyo texto, sin embargo sigue página por página. Pero llévale mucha ventaja en cuento á la parte tipográfica que es excelente, habiéndose además adoptado en ella la ortografía moderna y puéstose especial cuidado en la acentuación.” Rio y Rico 7, “esta edición es copia fiel de la de 1736, cuyo texto sigue página por página y de la cual solo se diferencia en carecer de la Comisión o Aprobación, Licencia, Tasa y Fe de erratas; en haberse adoptado en ella la ortografía moderna . . . La parte tipográfica es excelente.” Givanel y Mas 330, “esta edición, bellamente impresa y en buen papel, sigue

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“It is very certain that (Cervantes) had a special fondness for the Galatea: he spared it at the burning of Don Quixote’s library, praised its invention, and made the Priest exhort the Barber to await the sequel which is foreshadowed in the Galatea’s text . . . For thirty-one years Cervantes held out the promise of the Galatea’s Second Part . . .” (Fitzmaurice Kelly, A history of Spanish Literature, p. 218). The popularity in Spain of pastoral novels lapsed after 1620, but the work was reprinted in 1736 by the Madrid press of Juan de Zuñiga, and it later inspired Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian to write his Galatée, roman pastoral imité de Cer- vantes which appeared in Paris in 1783 (Juan Montero, ‘Para la historia textual de La Galatea’. Anales Cer- vantinos, 1 Dec. 2010, Vol.42, pp. 63-65). Some slight discolouration on a few pp., top 2 lines of p. 147 faintly printed, otherwise a good copy.

12. FAGOAGA, Francisco de: Tablas de las Cuentas del Valor Liquido de la Plata del Diezmo, y del intrinseco, y natural de la que se llama quintada, y de la reducción de sus leyes a la de 12. Dineros. Segun las novissimas ordenanzas de Su Magestad, y de los derechos, que de la plata, y oro se le pagan es estos reynos, en conformidad de sus leyes reales, y cedulas. 8vo. Title within woodcut border, woodcut coat of arms. (6) ff., 68 pp. Near contemporary vellum, later endpapers (early manuscript used for rear endpapers). Mexico, Joseph Jaúregui, 1773. £ 450.

Palau 86281. Medina, Imprenta en México, 5582.

Second edition of these tables for converting various levels of purity of silver which, to facilitate the levying of royalties in Mexico, show the net value of all quantities of purity of silver. In 1772 the coinage was re- formed and a Pragmatic decreed by Charles III, dated 29 May 1772, introduced new regulations for minting silver, the fineness of the silver in coins being lowered to 0,902. Francisco de Fagoaga was a member of the powerful Fagoaga family; “if any one family could lay claim to the leadership of the Mexi- can silver-mining industry it was the Fagoagas. For three generations, throughout the entire span of the eighteenth century they participated in many of the industry’s greatest enterprises” (D.A. Brading, Miners and merchants in Bourbon Mexico, 1763-1810, p. 173). The book first appeared in 1729; the licenc- es are dated 1729.

13. [FREE TRADE DECREE.] Reglamento y aranceles reales para el comercio libre de España a Indias de 12. de octubre de 1778. 4to. (2) ff., 19, (1 blank), 262 pp. With engraved frontispiece depicting the Royal arms. Contemporary calf (head of spine worn, foot of spine chipped). Madrid, Imprenta de Pedro Marin, 1778. £ 800.

Palau 255843. Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 4845. Sabin 68890. John Carter Brown Cat. 2506. Kress Cat. S.4922. Goldsmiths' Libr. Cat. 11717. Aguilar Piñal X, 2481. Not in Einaudi.

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"On 12 October 1778 a reglamento establishing 'a free and protected trade' and consolidating all the previous concessions dismantled the traditional framework of colonial trade; it lowered tariffs, ended the monopoly of Cadiz and Seville, opened free communications between the major ports of the peninsula and Spanish America, and heralded a new phase of the pacto colonial . . . [It], however, was a limited freedom. It abol- ished the monopoly of Cadiz but reaffirmed the monopoly of Spain; it opened Spanish America to all Span- iards but closed it more firmly to the rest of the world. The colonies were given more avenues into the Spanish market but denied access to the world market . . . [It] was designed to make the colonial monopoly more effective . . . If trade followed the flag, the tax collector was close behind the trader" (John Lynch, Bourbon Spain 1700-1808, p. 352-3). "The decision of Charles III to promulgate the famous Reglamento para el comercio libre of 1778 on the symbolic date of 12 October, the anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, was designed to emphasise the importance which he and his ministers attached to this funda- mental measure of commercial reform . . . It might . . be concluded that insofar as Spanish exports to America were concerned, the introduction of 'free trade' caused a major expansion in agricultural and viti- cultural production, but without undermining either the role of Cádiz as the major peninsular port for trade with America, or, more seriously, promoting significant industrial growth in Spain . . . The last quarter of the eighteenth century was an era of unprecedented prosperity and economic growth for Spain and Spanish America, a period in which for the first time the metropolis succeeded in unleashing the agricultural poten- tial of its American possessions, whilst also promoting the continued expansion of mining production. The relationship between this economic growth and the liberalisation of trade is abundantly clear" (Fisher, The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America 1492-1810, pp. 134, 152 & 197). Slight water-staining in preliminary ff., occasional contemporary ink annotations.

14. GASELEE, Stephen: The Spanish Books in the Library of Samuel Pepys. 4to. 49, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers. Oxford University Press for the Bibliographical Society, 1921. Supplement to the Bibliographical Society’s Transactions, No. 2. £ 20.

Spain and Spanish literature interested Pepys from an early age, and in 1661 he wrote in his diary that “we do naturally love the Spanish and hate the French.” In 1673 King Charles II “charged Pepys to accompany Lord Dartmouth to Tangier where they were to see that the fortifications were dismantled and the civilian population evacuated. When the business at Tangier was completed Pepys had a two-month holiday in Cadiz, Port St Mary, Sanlúcar and Seville . . . . He prepared himself for the trip. He made out two lists of what he wanted to see in Seville, what he wanted to buy there” (Edward M. Wilson, “Samuel Pepys and Spain” in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Vol. 7, No. 3 [1979], p. 327). Though a few books were acquired later by his nephew, John Jackson, during his continental tour in 1699 to 1701, it was on these travels that Pepys bought most of his Spanish collection. The catalogue lists 185 items, consisting of his 76 Spanish chap-books and 26 separate copies of single plays, and 83 books of historical and literary interest; “we can see that Pepys bought books that he would want to open, look at and sometimes read” (idem, p. 328) Unopened copy.

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15. GATTEL, Claude-Marie: The New Pocket Dictionary, of the English and Spanish Languages, carefully compiled from the most approved English and Spanish dictionaries; Nuevo Diccionario Portatil Español é Ingles, compuesto segun los mejores diccionarios que hasta ahora salido a luz en ambas naciones. 2 vols. 16mo. I: English and Spanish, (4) ff., 445 (misnumbered 447) pp.; II: Español é Ingles, (8) ff., 461 pp. Contemporary half calf. Paris, Bossange, Masson & Besson, 1803. £ 90.

Palau 100651 (lists only Vol. II).

A translation of Abbé Gattel's Nouveau Dictionnaire espagnol, first published in Lyons, 1770. The Abbé taught philosophy in Lyons and grammar in Gre- noble, and translated the Vita di Sebastiano Giuseppe de Carvalho . . by Francisco Gustá, an unflattering memoir of the Portuguese statesman. Short marginal tear repaired in Vol. I, p. 415/6.

16. [GERONA]. Respuesta por los Protectores de los Aniversarios Presbyterales de la Santa Iglesia de Gerona, a las Dudas, que se han dado en la Real Sala . . en la instancia de revista de la Real Sentencia Proferida en 2. de Octubre 1748. en el pleyto que siguen; contra el Ayunta- miento y Particulares de la Villa de Figueras. Folio. Title p. with title inside decorative typographical border, 38 pp. Boards. Barcelona, Here- deros de Maria Martì, (1751). £ 50.

Not in Palau or Aguilar Piñal. Not traced in WorldCat.

A curious law case involving the non-payment of taxes on olives and olive oil to which the church was entitled. Some faint foxing on title p.

17. [GIBRALTAR.] Printed copy of the order-in-council issued in the name of Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 19 March 1819, and signed Chetwynd, suspending the investigation into controversial land titles in Gibraltar. Reproduced is the Proclamation by Governor George Don dated 4 December 1817 referring to the order by the Prince Regent of 13 August 1817 obliging those resident in the territory, but not natural born subjects or Protestants, to register at the Office of the Civil Secretary and make an annual payment of ten dollars [f. (4) verso], and a copy of the letter dated 31 January 1819 signed A. Cardozo, J.R. Oxberry and Charles Glynn, inhabitants of Gibraltar, pleading their case [f. (4) recto & verso]. Folio, 4 unnumbered leaves. Together with:- Autograph letter dated Lloyds, 1st March 1836, 4to., 2 pp. with integral address leaf, from W. Dobson to J.R. Oxberry, Gibraltar, concerning mon- ies owed. And:- Manuscript copy of a deed dated Gibraltar, 17 June 1836, 1 leaf, folio, drawn up by William Cornwell, Proctor of the Court, stating that John Hackett, officer in His Majesty’s Navy, had sailed for Leghorn and was due to return to Gibraltar. £ 380.

An important document concerning property rights in Gibraltar. The letter of 31 January 1819 from the Gibraltar representatives states that “Payment of Ten Dollars . . will deter many persons having a trading capital, from settling in the Garrison; and no Alien ever came there for the express purpose of purchasing Lands, but solely to trade: his buying Lands has arisen out of his change of circumstance, and attachment to the place” (f. (4) verso), and refers to the “letter which authorized Sir Thomas Trigge to Confirm the Sales of Transfers of Landed Property to Roman Catholics and Jews, who should have - 10 -

resided at Gibraltar for a period of Five Years . . .” (f. (4) recto). Stephen Constantine wrote of this incident: “[W]e can detect the British cultural conceit that citizens had rights and that society was or should be gov- erned by the rule of law, equitably applied. It is fair to say that by the end of the [18th] century the most important British export to Gibraltar was British law and the notion that its application should be impartial . . . Property owners worried by the order-in-council of August 1817, which authorised the inquiry into land titles in Gibraltar, immediately assembled and chose a committee to draw up a memorial asking Lieutenant-Governor Don to suspend the already publicised investigation. When Don replied that he was bound by his instructions and not able to accede to their wishes, a second memorial was drawn up and sent to him with the request that it be forwarded to the Prince Regent. In reply to this, Don declared that he would not do so without its amendment or, if it were to be sent unchanged, without adding critical comments in his covering dispatch. A delegation then went to London to de- liver the memorial themselves and to engage in some lobbying of the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Lord Bathurst, and also, via learned counsel, to the Privy Council, ‘ex parte inhabitants of Gibraltar.’ The importance of this episode is not just that Gibraltar merchants were able to by-pass the governor and ‘go to the top’, nor even that rea- soned argument seems to have led to a modification of the law and to an amended order-in-council of March 1819. More strikingly, what we also see here is the expression of a collective civilian identity, though only among the merchant elite. The committee which drafted the first memorial was carefully constructed to include three representatives ‘for Protestants’, three ‘for Catholics’ and three ‘for He- brews’. Signatures to the memorials were signed in columns headed ‘Protestant’, ‘Catholics’ and ‘Jews’. Distinctions were acknowledged, but a common interest was recognised, and political pressure was being collectively exerted” (Community and identity, the making of modern Gibraltar since 1704, pp. 87- 88). Two tiny holes in f. (4) just touching text, some slight staining.

18. GONZÁLEZ de SALCEDO, Pedro: Examen de la Verdad en respuesta à los Tratados de los derechos de la Reyna Christianissima sobre varios estados de la Monarchia de España. 4to. (7) ff., 374 pp. (misnumbered 376). With beautiful title page engraved by P. a Villafranca. Contemporary vellum (worn). (Madrid, n.pr., 1668?). £ 500.

Palau 105834. Salvá 3685. Goldsmith G-293. Maggs, Spanish Books, 425.

The author makes a detailed study of the claims made by Queen Maria Teresa of France on behalf of Louis XIV to certain duchies and lands belonging to the Netherlands, titles which were in abeyance after the death of Philip IV of Spain, and which the writer considers can no longer be upheld. The War of Devolution was fought in 1667 to enforce Louis XIV's claim to the Spanish Netherlands, and a partition treaty, signed secretly with the Emperor Leopold I of Germany, agreed that France would acquire the Netherlands, Franche Comté, the Philippines, Navarre, Naples and other dependencies if Charles II died without an heir. The work is dedicated to Johann Everard Nithard, the Austrian Jesuit who was confessor to and favourite of the Regent, Queen Mariana of Austria. Pedro de Villafranca y Malagón was appointed engraver to King Philip IV in 1654. Lacks final blank f., ownership stamps and some ink - 11 -

markings on title p.

19. [ISABEL FARNESE, Queen of Spain]. Oracion que la Academia Española hizo a la Reyna Nuestra Señora Doña Isabel Farnesio (que Dios guarde) el dia quinze de mayo de este año de mil setecientos y diez y ocho, en aplauso de el felisíssimo nacimiento de la Sereníssima Señora Infanta Doña Mariana Victória, que Dios prospere. 4to. 6 pp. Wrappers. Madrid, En la Imprenta Real (1718). £50.

Palau 1431. Aguilar Piñal IX, 4602. Not in COPAC.

The Spanish Academy, recently founded in 1714 and modelled on the French Academy, celebrates the birth of the Infanta Mariana Victoria, eldest child of Philip V and Queen Isabel Farnese. She was later betrothed to the infant Louis XV of France but instead married D. José I of Portugal. Unopened copy.

20. [MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot de]. Derechos y deberes del ciudadano. Obra traducida del idioma francés al castellano. Small 8vo. CXV, (1), 318 pp. Contemporary calf. Cadiz, Imprenta Tormentaria, 1812. £ 150.

Palau 145551, “obra prohibida.” WorldCat lists 3 copies only.

Rare first edition of the translation into Spanish of Abbé de Mably’s Des droits et des devoirs du citoyen which first appeared in French in 1789. The works of the French philosophers were forbidden in late 18th century Spain and read in the original only by an educated minority. But as more liberal ideas prevailed following the Napoleonic invasion Spanish translations began to be printed. According to Palau the work was translated by the Duchess of Astorga. Old bookseller’s label inside front cover.

21. [MACANAZ, Melchor Rafael de: Defensa Critica de la Inquisicion contra los principales enemigos que la han perseguido, y persiguen injustamente: En la qual se confunde con sus propias razo- nes á los Hereges Calvinistas, Luteranos, y otros, y no pocos Católicos engañados por ellos, que con tanto horror, y con tan desenfrenada furia han combatido la Inquisicion, siendo la mas justa, y la mas conforme á la piedad religiosa, y á la caridad christiana . . . Dalas a luz Don Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor. 2 vols. in 1. Small 8vo. I: (1) f., xii, 274 pp.; II: (3) ff., 263 pp. Near contemporary calf (some wear to back cover, a few wormholes in spine). Madrid, Don Antonio Espinosa, 1788. £ 550.

Palau 145572. Aguilar Piñal V, 2309.

Although Macanaz was one of Philip V’s most able and energetic ministers, he was dismissed from power and ex- iled to France when the Italian faction at the Spanish Court objected to his proposals to curb the Inquisition’s power. Surprisingly, his Defensa Critica broadly defends its existence and he believed Spain had been saved from Jan- senism by the Inquisition’s watchful care. Though begun in 1734, it only appeared posthumously in 1788. - 12 -

“Probably no other Spaniard of his time was more in touch with contemporary developments in Church and State . . . With his mind so open to foreign influences . . one would have expected Macanaz to be a forerunner of the enlightenment in Spain. That this was not so is clear from his obscurantist defence of the Inquisition . . . He exceeded most of his col- leagues, however, in energy and single-mindedness, and it was by his efforts that the first great cultural achievement of Philip V – the creation of the Biblioteca Nacional – became possible” (Henry Kamen, “Melchor de Macanaz and the foun- dations of Bourbon power in Spain” [English Historical Review, Vol. 80, No. 317 (1965), pp. 715-16]). With the bookplate and library stamp of Alfonso Cassuto. Vol. II, signature K (pp. 145-160) in duplicate. Some slight discolouration, some page numbers just shaved. Short tear repaired in top margin of Vol. I, p. 149/150 & Vol. II, p. 77/78.

22. [MELO, Francisco Manuel de]: Carta de Guia de Casa- dos, y Avisos para Palacios. Version castellana del idioma portugues. 16mo. (32) ff., 272 pp. Recent calf. Madrid, Benito Cano, 1786. £ 380.

Palau 160467. Not in Aguilar Piñal, Innocêncio, Azevedo-Samodães, Palha or Ameal. This edition not in COPAC .

The well-printed Spanish edition by Benito Cano. Edgar Prestage describes the Carta de Guia de Casados as being Melo’s most personal work, with its homely philosophy, good sense and amusing and appropriate anecdotes, written in an unadorned style (D. Francisco Manuel de Mello; esboco biographico, pp. 257-8). “The aristocratic Melo is, with Quevedo, the greatest writer of his generation in the Iberian peninsula” (Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature). It was the first work that Mello had published in Portuguese, when over forty years of age, his writings having previously been in Spanish. Occasional slight staining in lower margin. Tear repaired in lower margins of ff. B3, C3, E3, F3, F6, G6 & H6 just touching 5 letters.

23. [MELO, Francisco Manuel de]: Historia de los movimientos, y separasion de Cataluña, y de la Guerra entre La Magestad Catolica de Don Felipe el Cuarto Rey de Castilla, y de Aragon, y la Deputacion General de aquel Principado . . . Escrita por Clemente Libertino. 8vo. (4), 165 ff. Near contemporary calf, recent red labels (new endpapers). Lisbon, Bernardo da Costa de Carvalho, 1696. £ 650.

Palau 160431, “segunda edición, desde largo tiempo más rara que la primera.” Salvá 3045, “en el prólogo de la impresión de Sancha de 1808, se observa ser las ediciones antiguas de este libro tan sumamente raras en Portugal que apenas había quedado en aquel reino y el nuestro la menor noticia de una obra tan excelente.” - 13 -

Innocêncio II, 439. Garcia Peres 366, “joya de la Literatura Hispana.” Arouca, Bibliografia das obras impressas em Portugal no séc. XVII, III, M218.

A “classic of Spanish literature . . . No literary figure in Portugal of the seventeenth century, few in the Peninsula, can rank with D. Francisco Manuel de Mello (1608-66)” (Prestage, Por- tuguese Literature, p. 252). Francisco Manuel de Melo had led a military career since the age of 17 and was appointed to a position of command of the Spanish forces sent to quell the Catalan insurrection in 1640. But for unknown reasons on returning to Portugal he was im- prisoned by D. João IV, and there, deprived of his papers which had been confiscated on his arrest, he wrote his Historia, emphasising his role as an eye-witness to events. “His history is a remarkable analysis of contemporary Catalan realities for its impressive ecumenism, its authorial integrity . . . its moral rectitude and its aspirations to a harmonious and orderly social structure” (Eduardo Mayone Dias, ‘Dom Francisco Manuel de Melo: a Portuguese view of Catalonia in 1640’ in Portuguese Studies, vol. 6 (1990), p. 124-25). The work first appeared in 1645. Innocêncio (II, 439) and Pinto de Mattos (371) refer to a 1692 edition which may be a phantom one. Occasional marginalia. Some occasional spotting with loss of 5 letters on f. 22, a few pp. discoloured, lower corner of f. 102 & tear in lower margin of f. 162 repaired, small hole on ff. 113 & 120 due to paper fault.

24. MOLINA, Juan Ignacio: The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili . . . With notes from the Spanish and French versions, and an appendix, containing copi- ous extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Translated from the original Italian by an American Gentleman. 2 vols. 8vo. I: (4) ff., xii, 271 pp., (1) f., with folding map of Chile; II: (1) f., viii pp., (1) blank f., 305, (1) pp., (1) blank f., 68 pp. with "A Sketch of the Aracuana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla." Contemporary half calf (corners rubbed, top of spine of Vol. 1 chipped). Middletown (Conn.), Printed by I. Riley, 1808. £ 500.

(Cf. Palau 174566. Sabin 49893. De Backer-Sommervogel V, 1166.)

First edition in English. "The finest and most famous of the eighteenth century accounts of Chile . . . painstaking and accurate" (Simon Collier, Ideas and Politics of Chilean Independence 1808-1833, pp. 23 & 27). The work was translated by the poet, Richard Alsop, from Molina's Compendio della storia geografica, naturale e civile del regno de Chile which appeared anonymously in 1776, in which he gives a full and detailed description of the climate, physical aspects, natural resources, botany, zoology of Chile, and history of the country. Molina was born in Chile, trained as a Jesuit and was sent to Italy in 1767. "Among the first to give cultural expression to Americanism were the creole Jesuits expelled from their homeland in 1767, who became in exile the literary precursors of American nationalism . . to dispel European ignorance of their countries . . they described the nature and history of their homelands, their - 14 -

“Among the first to give cultural expression to Americanism were the creole Jesuits expelled from their

homeland in 1767, who became in exile the literary precursors of American nationalism . . to dispel Eu- ropean ignorance of their countries . . they described the nature and history of their homelands, their resources and assets, producing in the process works of scholarship as well as of literature" (Cambridge History of Latin America, Vol. 3, p. 39). From the New York Society Library with its cancelled stamp. Tear repaired in inner margin of map, cancelled library stamps on title pp. & half title pp., some discolouration and occasional spotting, lacking tip of corner of Vol. I, p. 179/180 & of Vol. II, p. 101/102.

25. [Mining - GALVEZ]. Reales Ordenanzas para la Direccion, Régimen y Gobierno del Im- portante Cuerpo de la Minería de Nueva-España, y de su Real Tribunal General. De Orden de Su Magestad. Large 4to. (2) ff. with engraving of the arms of the King of Spain & title p., 46, 214 pp. Recent half calf in the style of the period. Madrid (n.pr.), 1783. £ 720.

Palau 251937. Medina, Bibl. Hispano-Americana, 5040. Sabin 56260. Aguilar Piñal X, 2829.

First edition of an important and influential work. On the instructions of José de Gálvez, Minister of the Indies, this celebrated and comprehensive code was drawn up by representatives of the Mexican mining districts in consultation with the Spanish crown. It became law also in both Peru and the Río de la Plata viceroyalty in 1794, and served as the basis of the mining law of most Spanish American countries until the late nineteenth century. Traces of worming repaired throughout, mainly confined to margins.

26. [Montevideo] [ALVEAR, Carlos de.] Exposicion que hace el Señor Brigadier D. Carlos Alvear General en Xefe del Exercito sitiador de Montevideo, de su conducta en la rendición de esta Plaza. Vulnerada por las falsas imputaciones de su Gobernador D. Gaspar Vigodet. (Dated 29 November 1814.) Folio. 42 pp., (1) f. with errata. Wrappers. Buenos Aires, Imprenta de Ni- ños Expositos, 1814. £ 180.

Palau 10073. Furlong 3070. Zinny 1814, no. 22, who reproduces part of the Exposición. Mallié VI, No. IV, pp. 105-147, who reproduces the document. Not in COPAC.

Despite Buenos Aires having declared independence, Montevideo remained loyal to the Spanish crown, but in October 1812 the city was besieged by the Latin American patriots, a siege which lasted until June 1814. In May 1814 the ambitious Carlos Maria de Alvear, President of the General Constituent Assembly of the United Provinces, “at the age of twenty-five one of the most influential men in the government ranks and, indeed, in the United Provinc- es, was sent over with fresh troops to take command of the siege of Montevideo . . . He landed with one thousand five hundred fresh men, and on the 17th of May took over from the general who had, in almost two years of siege, prepared the victory that Alvear’s uncle Posadas was presenting to his am- - 15 -

bitious nephew . . . Vigodet was . . forced to send emissaries to Buenos Aires to sue for peace . . . But

he was refused in his turn, and the city had to go through the terrors of a siege to the bitter end. Alvear was given full powers to negotiate on the spot with the Spanish authorities, and on the 5th of June he offered to listen to Vigodet’s proposals . . . Alvear was keenly alive to the danger of allowing any connection to grow up between the Orientals and the royalists, and he simply cut off the negotiations at once. He tricked Artigas and Otorgués, isolated Vigodet, and then on the 19th of June received new proposals, unaccountably from Montevideo. He freely agreed to honourable terms for the royalists [and that] all the interests of the people of Montevideo would be respected, the Spanish troop would be sent back to Spain, and the city would be left with arms, munitions and warlike stores intact . . . The treaty was ratified on the 20th of June, and on the 23rd the city was handed over . . . As soon as he was safely in possession Alvear repudiated the treaty, on the pretext that it had not been ratified; and in fact none of the terms was kept. He had done what he did simply to gain possession of the city quickly and without loss. Montevideo became an enemy city occupied by an army bent on repressing any possible reaction . . . The patriot occupation of Montevideo [resulted] merely in the continuation of the split between the city and the rest of the province . . . Alvear acted with the coldest treachery . . . He assembled all the arms in the city and sent off to Buenos Aires a magnificent collection of over eight thousand rifles and three hundred and thirty-five guns, together with the royalist flotilla and other war material. Even the press, Princess Carlota Joaquina’s gift, was packed up and sent to Buenos Aires. Montevideo was com- pletely despoiled” (Street, Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay, Cambridge 1959, pp. 199-202). In this Exposición Alvear justifies his actions and sets out the terms of the rendition, as he views the matter. Ac- cording to H.M. Brackenridge (Voyage to South America, v. 2, p. 139 [London 1820]) it was written by Ma- nuel José Garcia, “one of their best writers.”

27. [Montevideo. ALVEAR, Carlos de.] Circular. Desde que D. José Artigas vió recompensa- dos pródigamente sus primeros trabajos . . . Dated Buenos-Ayres 30 March 1815. Folio. 1 f. Wrappers. (Buenos Aires, n.pr., 1815.) £ 170. Together with:- ALVEAR, Carlos de. El Director Supremo del Estado a todos los habitantes de las Provincias Unidas. Dated Buenos Ayres 31 March 1815. 1 f. Wrappers. Buenos Aires, Imprenta del Estado (1815).

(1st) Furlong IV, 3166, who attributes the declaration to Nicolás Herrera and who reproduces the verso. Zinny 1815, no. 12, p. 127. Mallié II, No. XCVII, pp. 387-88, who reproduces the document. WorldCat lists 4 copies. (2nd) Furlong IV, 3167. Zinny 1815, no. 13. Mallié II, No. XCVIII, pp. 389-390, who reproduces the document. Not in Palau or Sabin.

(First) José Gervasio Artigas, hero of Uruguayan independence, had recaptured Montevideo in early 1815 from the control of Buenos Aires. Carlos Al- vear, who had on 9 January 1815 replaced his uncle as Supreme Director of the Río de la Plata region, “sent the Secretary Herrera, a Montevidean himself, - 16 -

to the Provincia Oriental with full powers to come to terms with Artigas so as to present a united front to external threats . . but it was in vain, since Arti- gas knew very well that he only needed to continue in his present course for Montevideo to be evacuated by the Argentines and fall into his lap . . . [He] demanded the evacuation of Montevideo . . . and Herrera was in fact forced to order the evacuation of the city on the 24th of February” (John Street, Arti- gas and the emancipation of Uruguay, pp. 211-2). Alvear rails against what he considers is the treachery shown by Artigas, and tries to sway public opinion for his own support. The declaration is signed by Nicolas Herrera, “a professional politician unhampered by any excessive consistency of ideas . . .” (Tulio Halperin Donghi, Politics, economics and society in Argentina in the revolutionary period, p. 222). Left margin strengthened with adhesive tape. (Second) Written shortly before his resignation on 15 April, Alvear declares his wish to establish a strong state through military force, essential to con- front so many perceived dangers. He rails against the belligerent attitude of Artigas at whose feet he lays the blame for devastation, towns sacked, es- tates burned, the most horrendous crimes committed, the most beautiful country on earth laid waste, such is the ambition and perfidy of our leaders. And he proclaims that his duty is to be the protector of peaceful citizens. But the army and the ruling Cabildo had turned against him and Alvear fell from grace.

28. [Montevideo.] VIGODET, Gaspar de: Proclama del Señor . . Gobernador de Montevideo. (Dated 11 July 1811). Followed by:- Reflexiones sobre la proclama. 8vo. 8 pp. Wrappers. Buenos Aires, Imprenta de Niños Expósitos, n.d. £ 150.

Furlong IV, 2482 (who reproduces most of Vigodet’s proclamation). Zinny 1811, no. 21. Palau 364949II . Mallié IV, No. XIX, pp. 345-352 (who reproduces the document).

Fresh from his military triumphs against Napoleon in Spain, Gaspar de Vigodet had arrived in Montevideo on 7 October 1810, where he had been appointed governor to replace General Fran- cisco Xavier de Élío, confident of military assistance promised by the consort of the Portuguese Prince Regent, Princess Carlota Joaquina, then in Rio de Janeiro and her brother, the Spanish king, Fernando VII. He urges the inhabitants of Montevideo to support the royalist cause against those promoting independence from Spain. “He increased the pressure on the inhabitants of the Banda Oriental, striving to enforce the title-proving decree, and creating a special Junta de Hacienda (Treasury Council) to squeeze more contributions in money and in kind from all the territory . . . [His actions] increased unrest amongst the inhabitants of the country districts . . .” (John Street, Artigas and the emancipation of Uruguay, p. 124). Despite Buenos Aires having declared independence, Montevideo remained loyal to the Spanish crown, but in Octo- ber 1812 the city was besieged by the Latin American patriots, a siege which lasted until June 1814. The Reflexiones, which may have been written later by a by patriot writer, disparage Vigo- det’s opinions and urge rebellion against peninsula rule. - 17 -

29. MORETO [y CAVANA], Agustin: Comedia Famosa. El Desden con el Desden. Small 4to. 40 pp. Wrappers. Barcelona, Imprenta de Carlos Sapèra, n.d. (c. 1760). At head of f. (1) recto: Num. 2. £ 150.

This edition not in Palau or Aguilar Piñal. Not in Catálogo de comedias sueltas conservados en la Biblioteca de la Real Academia Española, Bergman & Szmuk, A catalogue of Comedias Sueltas in the New York Public Library, Comedias sueltas in Cambridge University Library : a descriptive catalogue , ed. A. J. C. Bainton, Sullivan & Bers- has, Comedias Sueltas, González Cañal, Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Fondo Entrambasaguas, Catálogo de comedias sueltas del Museo Nacional del Teatro de Almagro, Boyer, The Texan collection of comedias sueltas.

“The plot is ordered with consummate skill, the dialogue is of the gayest humour, the characters more life-like than any but Alarcón’s . . . In the delicacy of touch with which Moreto handles a humorous situation he is almost unrivalled” (FitzMaurice Kelly, Spanish Literature, p. 334). “Moreto was adept at dialogue and plot construction, using skilful verse without verbosity or rhetorical devices” (Ward, Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature, p. 400). “Moreto's work . . . has endured so well . . . because it is ingenious, amusing, and very satisfyingly worked” ((Melveena McKendrick, Theatre in Spain, 1490- 1700, p. 120). “The best of all his plays . . . (He was) the dramatic writer next in popularity after Calderón” (Ticknor, History of Spanish literature, II, p. 416 & III, p. 445).

30. La Nación y los Progresistas, ó recuerdos importantes para las próximas elecciones. 12mo. 7 pp. Wrappers. Colophon: Madrid, Im- prenta de Surdo-Mudos, 1840. £ 60.

Not in Palau. WorldCat lists 1 copy only.

In 1840 the first Carlist War ended with the Treaty of Vergara signed in August between the Progressives and the Moderates. The anonymous author of this rare pamphlet condemns the Progressive Party for its disrespect of the monarchy, and he appeals to the nation to uphold the 1837 Constitution, which he states the progressives repudiated. He desires the return of peace to the northern and other provinces, that the army is disbanded, and justice established. The progressives are accused of pillaging the country, of contraband, and ruining industry and commerce. The war had left the economic situation in dire straits, and although the state had received wealth from the closure of the 2000 convents, this seemed to have evaporated. Spain should be able to take its rightful place in Europe.

31. [PAZ, Juan Antonio de]. OSSORIO de la CADENA, Antonio: La Virtud en el Estrado. Visitas juiciosas. Critica espiritual. Small 8vo. (3) ff., 375 pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Madrid, Andres Ortega, 1766. £ 120.

Palau 215723. De Backer-Sommervogel VI, 404 lists 1st and this edition only. Aguilar Piñal VI, 2060.

A curious Jesuit diatribe condemning female frivolities, of which no less than six editions appeared in some 40 years. The book takes the form of a dialogue between Dª. Magdalena, Dª Margarida and their priest, D. José, who rails against immodest fashions revealing bare arms, breasts and shoulders, elaborate hair styles, those who paint their faces, the dangers awaiting daughters who are permitted out of their homes, and the perils of a liberal education. No less than six editions appeared in some 40 years. The author taught grammar and philosophy and was deported to Italy when the Jesuit order - 18 -

was suppressed. Apparently lacks 1 preliminary f. (? half-title). Some faint marginal staining &

occasional ink markings, ink scribbles on last blank p.

32. [Philip V of Spain.] Decreto di Sua Maestá il Re Cattolico Filippo V. Sopra varie Accuse portate al Suo Real Consiglio delle Indie contro I Gesuiti del Paraguay. Con la Letera dell’ Illustriss, e Rmo Signore D. Frà Giuseppe de Peralta dell’ Ordine di S. Dome- nico Vescovo de Buenosayres, Che vien citata dal Rè nel suo Decreto. Coll’ Aggiunta Di due Lettere di Sua Maestá Cattolica al Provinciale della Compagnia di Gesù nel Paraguay. 4to. 66 pp., (1 blank) f., 55 pp. Later vellum. Naples, n.pr., 1744. £ 350.

Sommervogel XI, 1351 (Spanish version only & 1758 edition of Italian version). Palau 87397. Sa- bin 19208-09. Medina, Bibl. Hispano-Americana IV, 3348. John Carter Brown Libr., Bibl. Americana (1) III, 782. Alden 744/212. Leclerc 1885. Carayon, Bibliogr. hist. de la Compagnie de Jésus, 3343.

The “Cédula Grande” (Great Decree) of 1743 marked the high point of the Jesuits’ missionary enterprise in Paraguay. It was based on a consulta of May of the same year report drawn up by Father Juan José Rico, then Rector of the Jesuit College in Asunción, and accepted and dis- patched by Miguel de Villanueva, Secretary of the Council of the Indies. In Asunción sim- mering resentment had grown against the order and their establishment of the Indian reductions in Paraguay, which led to the comuñero rebellion of 1721-1735. The authorities resented the Jesuits’ exemption from paying taxes and accused the priests of having appropriated the best land, of enriching themselves on the profits of yerba mate, and exploiting the Indians. “At a time of Jesuit influence in Madrid the order had obtained from the Council of the Indies a royal cédula (decree) confirming the various privileges and immunities of its Guaraní missions. First, the Indians had to pay a low rate of tribute, in exchange for constituting a perma- nent militia at the orders of the royal authorities. Second, the Jesuits were allowed to retain the particular economic and social system characteristic of their Guaraní communities. And finally the moderate form of the Patronato Real (royal control in return for material support of the Church) prevailing in their mission district was con- firmed. The Cédula Grande of 1743 was not easily obtained and cost the Jesuits considerable sums of money paid in bribes to the officials who prepared the cédula, transferring funds illegally from Rio de La Plata via Lisbon and London” (John Lynch, New World, a religious history of Latin America, p. 77). José de Peralta, Bishop of Buenos Aires and a Dominican, had visited the Indians in the Reductions and in his letter stressed their loyalty to the Crown, stating that their only source of financial income is the cultivation of yerba mate. Their expenses include the purchase of horses, armaments to repel hos- tile Indian tribes and the vestments used in the celebration of Mass. He noted the ravages of the recent smallpox epidemic and the famine caused by the drought of 1712-14. Indians were helping to construct the fort at Montevideo, and some progress had been made in their evangelisation in Patagonia and the Pampas. The second part, Decreto de la Magestad del Rey Catholico Phelipe V. Sobre varias Acusaciones dadas en su Real Consejo de Ynidas contra los Je- suitas del Paraguay. Y la Carta del Ilmo, e Rmo Señor D.F. Joseph de Peralta del Orden de S. Domingo, Obispo de Buenos-Ayres, Que cita el Rey en su Decreto. Y las - 19 -

Cartas tambien de su Magestad Catholica al Provincial del Paraguay, is a translation into Spanish of the first part. The Italian version was reprinted in Milan in 1758. Traces of worming in lower gutter margin, more pronounced in pp. 9-32 of second part.

33. PIQUER y ARRUFAT, Andres: Tratado de las Calenturas Segun la Observacion, y el Mechanismo. Small 4to. (8) ff., 248 pp., (l) f. 1 folding plate of a saint and an angel. Later calf. Valencia, Joseph Garcia, 1751. £ 250.

Palau 227176. Surgeon General's Library Cat. XI, 325. Hernandez Morejón VII, 148. Aguilar Piñal VI, 2896.

First edition. Piquer was physician to Ferdinand VI and Charles III of Spain; Hernandez Morejón considered him to be the greatest Spanish physician, the Hippocrates of Spain. . ". . of these [enlightened physicians] the most capable was Andrés Piquer . . who upheld controlled experiment and observation as the basis for the improvement of medical science. In his own day Piquer was a pioneer . . the majority of Spanish doctors were [his] disciples" (Herr, The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Spain, p. 41). A French translation appeared in l776. The folding plate is not called for by any bibliographer. Signa- tures Q, R & S slightly discoloured.

34. PORREÑO, Baltasar: Los dichos y hechos del Rey Don Phelipe II. Llamado con justa razon, el Prudente . . Al fin deste Librito se pone una Breve descripcion del Pays-Baxo. 12mo. (4) ff., 352, 82 pp., (1) f. Near contemporary panelled calf (rebacked ). Brussels, por Fran- cisco Foppens, 1666. £ 200.

Palau 233069 & 324881. Salvá 2129, “edición apreciable por su belleza tipográfica y buen papel, y buscada por formar parte de la colección elzeveriana.” Peeters-Fontainas 1076. Heredia 7553.

Porreños’s biography of Philip II is important in that it was written a few years after the king’s death, the first edition having appeared in 1628. In his Lau- rel de Apolo, Lope de Vega praised the author as “Gloria de Cuenca, Baltasar Porreno En el verso Latino y Castellano, De tanta erudición se muestra lleno.” The second work, written by Emanuel Sueyro, first appeared in Antwerp in 1622. With the library stamp of the Duke of Palmela on the title page and the book plate of John Bury.

35. [PUEYRREDÓN, Juan Martin.] Memoria del Gral. Pueyrredon después de haberse retirado del Mando Supremo de las Provincias- Unidas en Sud-America. (Dated Buenos Aires, 9 August 1819.) Folio. 13 pp. Original floral wrappers. Buenos Aires, Imprenta de la Indepen- dencia, 1819. £ 180.

Not in Palau. Zinny 1819, no. 24, p. 247. Not in COPAC.

“An autobiographical record abundant in reflections . . .” (Tulio Halperin Donghi, Politics, economics and society in Argentina in the revolutionary period, p. 228). In his Memoria Pueyrredón justifies his former position as Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata by stating that during his - 20 -

time in office he had improved education at the Colegio de San Carlos, he had paid off most of the national debt, had established a bank, and founded a national mint in Córdoba. He worked closely with the Congress of Tucumán when in 1817 it moved to Buenos Aires and there began to draft a constitution, completed in 1819. On 18 May 1819 he had taken plans to Congress for the creation of the University of Buenos Aires. But faced with rising opposition and accused of complicity with the Portuguese Court, then at Rio de Janeiro, who planned to regain control of its former territory in Colônia do Sacramento, he resigned from the Directory in June and retired to his estate at San Isidro near Buenos Aires, and later to Montevideo.

36. QUINTANA, Hilarión de la: Breve Manifiesto que el Coronel D. Hilarion . . . Hace a su Patria, y sus Conciudadanos, justificando con documentos su conducta publica contra las in- vasiones de la calumnia. Folio. 4 pp. Wrappers. Buenos Aires, Imprenta del Sol (1816). £ 100.

Furlong IV, 3226. Not in Palau or Sabin. Not traced in WorldCat. or OCLC

Quintana, the unpopular governor of Salta, in north Argentina, protests that in the three months that he was governor of Salta he had raised funds for the army in Buenos Aires, and he rejects accusa- tions of financial irregularities. As a Porteño army officer, he had commanded 500 men in March 1814. “. . the new Intendent appointed [in Salta] by Buenos Aires, General Hilarión de la Quintana, whose efficiency in collecting further contributions for the army certainly did not increase his popularity . . . In April 1815 . . Quintana had already left his post . . . the Cabildo, which by getting rid of Quintana, had won . . a guarantee against the interference of the emissaries of the factions succes- sively dominant in Buenos Aires” (Tulio Halperin Donghi, Politics, economics and society in Argentina in the revolutionary period, p. 266). The justifying documents reproduced are dated Salta, 18 July 1816, Tucuman, 27 July 1816, Leñas 2 Sept. 1815 and Leñas 6 Sept. 1815. Light browning.

37. RAMONEDA, Ignacio Gali de: Arte de Canto-Llano. Compendiado por el P.Fr. Juan Rodó . . para que los particulares adquieran con brevedad y poco trabajo la inteligencia y destreza conveniente. Small 4to. 184 pp., (2) ff. Con- temporary calf. Madrid, Oficina de Don Francisco Martinez Dávila, 1827. £ 220.

Palau 247641. Angelés & Subirá, Catálogo musical de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, I, p. 438, "una segunda edición simplificada por el P. Juan Rodó."

"[Ramoneda] became a monk in the order of St. Jerome at the monastery of El Escorial where he taught plainsong and remained until his death His brother Pablo Ramoneda, also a monk at El Escorial, was the maestro de capilla. Ignacio's treatise Arte de canto llano (Madrid 1778) circulated widely in Spain; a second edition (abridged by Juan Rodó, organist at the monastery) was published in 1827. Ramoneda also compiled the Indice de la insigne libreria del coro de este Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo (MS, c1775, E-E), the earliest catalogue of the monastery's collection. In the same archives are a number of his compo- - 21 -

sitions; a mass, five Lamentations for Holy Week and psalms, some with instruments and continuo. In his lifetime he was renowned for his remarkable skill on the organ and other instruments, but his subsequent reputation is based on his plainsong manual" (New Grove, v. 20, p. 811). With ownership signature on title p. & verso of last f. Traces of worming in upper gutter margin of pp. 1 - 10, on last f. & end free end-paper.

38. ROLANDO, Guzmán: Nuevo Arte de Esgrima, conforme la prac- tica de los mejores maestros de Europa. Aumentado y Corregido por J.S. Forsyth; y Traducido del Ingles por un Militar Español. 12mo. xvi, 194 pp., (3) ff. with catalogue of recent publications. With 23 coloured engraved plates. Contemporary red calf (head of spine skilfully repaired, lower corners bumped). London, Ackermann, y en su establecimiento en Megi- co: asimismo en Colombia, en Buenos Ayres, Chile, Peru y Guatemala, 1826. £ 480.

Palau 276327. Leguina, Bibliografia e historia de la esgrima espanola, 272. Carl A. Thimm, A complete Bibliography of fencing & duelling, p. 244. Not listed in John Ford, “Rudolph Ackermann: publisher to Latin America,“ Bello y Londres, Segun- do Congreso del Bicentenario, I, pp. 206-224 (Caracas 1980) , Eugenia Roldán Vera, The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence (Aldershot 2003), or José Alberich, Bibliografia Anglo-Hispanica 1801-50. COPAC lists 1 copy only.

Rudolph Ackermann, an astute businessman famed for his printing of colour-plate books, employed many Spanish exiles in the publication of his works in Spanish, several of which appeared thanks to the sponsorship of Spanish American diplomats anxious to promote education in the newly independent countries. To encourage sales his son, George, was sent to Mexico City to open a bookshop there. The book is illustrated with 23 attractive coloured plates and gives instructions on the art of fencing, which by the end of the 18th century had become a recreational sport. According to Leguina the author was a French fencing master established in London, and a pupil of Danet, who had refined the art of his master with the further sophistications of his age. The work first appeared in English in 1822 (London, Samuel Leigh). Dedication in ink on front flyleaf, front hinge weak, some occasional spotting & discolouration.

39. SAEZ, Liciniano: Demostracion histórica del verdadero valor de todas las monedas que corrian en Castilla durante el Reynado del Señor Don Enrique IV, y de su correspondencia con las del Señor D. Carlos IV. Con un apéndice de instrumentos que justifican el valor de las mismas: noticia de los precios de los granos, carnes, pescados, jornales de labradores y artistas en aquel tiempo, y su equivalencia á las monedas actuales; y algunos otros documentos útiles y curiosos . . Publícala la misma Real Academia (de la Historia). 4to. XX, 580 pp., 1 f. with errata. With 3 engraved plates (1 folding) of reproductions of coins. Recent quarter vellum. Madrid, la Imprenta de Sancha, 1805. £ 300.

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Palau 284462. Salvá 3597. Goldsmiths' Library Cat. 19115.

"Obra importante y de consulta para la Numismática española de la Edad Media, por las muchas y exactas noticias, datos y documentos que contien" (Rada, Biblioteca numismática española, Madrid 1896). The author was a Benedictine monk, whose secular name was Domingo Vitores, according to Palau, and the work continues his study of coins of the earlier reign, Demostración histórica del verdadero valor de todas las monedas que corrian en Castilla durante el reynado del Señor Don Enrique III, y de su correspondencia con las del Señor Don Carlos I. The Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe considers his works on numismatics to be the best of their kind. The plates of the later volume include that which ap- pears in the earlier one, plus a further two. Ticknor (History of Spanish Literature, vol. I, p. 344) comments that the first verses of a poem by Juan de Mena were first printed here among the appendices.

40. SALVÁ y MALLEN, Pedro: Catálogo de la Biblioteca de Salvá . . . enriquecido con la descripción de otras muchas obras, de sus ediciones, etc. 2 vols. 4to. I: xxxii, 706, (1) pp.; II: (2) ff., 900 pp. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of title pages. Quarter brown morocco (spines faded). Valencia, Imprenta de Ferrer de Orga, 1872 (reprint edition, Barcelona, Porter- Libros, 1963). £ 150.

The classic catalogue of Spanish books, profusely illustrated with reproductions of title pages, etc. Small hole in outer margin of Vol. I, p. 347/8 due to paper fault with loss of 1 letter. Short tear repaired in upper margin of Vol. II, p. 899/900.

41. SAN ALBERTO, José Antonio de: Carta pastoral que el Ilustrísimo Señor Don Fray . . . Arzobispo de La Plata, Dirige a Todos los que en el pasado Concurso han sido nombrados, y elegi- dos para Curas. 4to. (2) ff., 676 pp. Later vellum (lacking ties). Buenos Aires, Real Imprenta de los Niños Expositos, 1791. £ 600.

Sabin 75976. Furlong II, 367. Palau 289494. Medina, Imprenta en Buenos Aires 1780-1810, [1791] no. 130) & Catálogo Breve de mi Colección de libros relativos a la América Latina, 2115. Rich, Bibl. Americana Nova, p. 374 .

First edition. In his Pastoral letter, dated Cochabamba, 24 November 1790, the author exhorts and encour- - 23 -

ages his clergy in their pastoral ministries, and appeals to them to lead a saintly life. He urges them (p. 157) not to follow the example of many clergy in his diocese, whom he condemns for their lack of morals, their vanity, their greed and love of finery, and also their financial demands on the Indians, re- sulting in suffering by their parishioners. He further compares unfavourably the character of the Peruvian Indians with that of the Mexican Indians (p. 365), criticising the former’s avarice and dishonesty, their drunken orgies (p. 379), and he writes in sorrow of the rebellions in Peru (p. 411), the Tupac Amaru uprising against Spanish authority and a return to their ignorant superstitions. San Alberto, Archbishop of the La Plata diocese, was a Carmelite friar and a noted educator, and was instrumental in carrying out the enlightened reform of the curriculum of the University of Córdoba. Gutiérrez (Bibliografia de la primera imprenta de Buenos Aires, 54) considered it to be most notable for the beauty of its typography among many printed by the Real Imprenta de los Niños Expositos, and on good quality paper. Signature 4H repeated, erased ink inscription to foot of title, lower hinge broken, occasional marginal annotations, otherwise a fine copy.

42. SEBASTIAN y LATRE, Thomas: Relacion individual, y veridica del sucesso acontecido en la ciudad de Zaragoza, el dia 6. de abril de 1766. y de todos sus demas progressos. Formado de orden de S.M. y escrita por encargo del Marques de Castelàr, Governador, y Capitán Ge- neral del Reyno de Aragon . . Vista, y aprobada por el Real Acuerdo de este Reyno. Small 4to. 132 pp. With 3 folding tables listing those who helped to pacify the revolt. Contemporary vellum (small tear in spine). Saragossa, Imprenta del Rey, 1766. £ 250.

Palau 305482. Aguilar Piñal VII, 4491.

Riots flared up in Spain in 1766 against the dictatorial rulings of the Marques of Esquilache and the increased price of bread, due to the poor harvest of 1765, the recently introduced free market in grain having begun in the worst possible conditions. “In Zaragoza it was the popular classes who rose, while the upper sectors supported the authorities . . . in Zaragoza property was attacked and the rich frightened into retaliation. But the insurgents were neither delinquents nor politically motivated; they were labourers, small peasants, and artisans, caught in the trap of poverty, unemployment, and high food prices . . . [In] Zaragoza . . eleven people were executed” (John Lynch, Bourbon Spain, 1700-1808, pp. 267). The book reproduces 40 pages of documents concerning the rebellion. An- other account exists dated Saragossa 1766, 52 pp., which has far less detail. Tiny hole in top right hand corner of preliminary leaves.

43. SEMPERE y GUARINOS, Juan: Historia del Luxo, y de las Leyes Suntuarias de España. Small 8vo. 2 vols. in l. I: 24, 200 pp.; II: (l) f., 219 pp. Later half calf. Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1788. £ 700.

Palau 307412. Goldsmiths' Cat. 12676. Aguilar Piñal VII, 4611. Not in Kress.

First edition. In this carefully argued work Sempere approached the problem of lavish spending as a contemporary mercantilist, condemning the extravagance of luxury as a vice, but finding it inevitable in a society that encouraged - 24 -

inequality and admired a man more for his ostentation than for virtue and moderation. Such needless consumption was therefore a necessity in that both industry and the state profited from it. Herr believed Sempere to be one of the outstanding members of the Amigos del País of Madrid, a society which encouraged new economic development (The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Spain, p. 163). Colmeiro (Bibliografia de los economistas españoles, 360) considered that the work was "though not devoid of economic errors worthy of censure, it deserves praise in that it shows the futility and ineffectiveness of the laws condemning lavishness." Ownership stamp on title pp., paragraph on Vol. I, p. 16/17 lightly crossed through, tip of corner of p. 27/8 cut off, short tear repaired in top margin of Vol. II, p. 141/2.

44. [Seville.] Regla de la muy Humilde y Real Hermandad de la Hospitalidad de la Santa Caridad de N. Señor Jesuchristo, sita en su casa y hospital del Señor San Jorge de la Ciudad de Sevilla. 8vo. (1) f., vi, 197 pp., (1 blank) f., 13 pp. With portrait of Don Miguel Mañara de Leca & 1 allegorical plate, both engraved by Joaquin Bullester. Later quarter calf (head of spine & lower joint worn). Madrid, En la Imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra, 1785. £ 300.

Palau 150367. Ruiz Lasala, Joaquin Ibarra y Marin 1725-1785, 0788. Aguilar Piñal X, 2986. Not in Salvá.

The alms-house of Hospital de la Caridad in Seville, founded in 1674 by Miguel de Mañara Vicentelo de Leca (1626-1679), has for some 350 years served the sick and elderly. Legend has it that Mañara, then a licentious nobleman, was returning one night from a riotous orgy when the vision of a funeral procession in which the partly decomposed corpse in the coffin was seen to be his own had led him to renounce his worldly goods and join the Brotherhood, devoting his fortune to the care of the poor and building the hospital, a story which inspired Mozart’s Don Giovanni, but this has been disproved. The brotherhood of Santa Caridad dates from 1456, and its original task was to comfort criminals before execution and collect and bury their corpses and those of people found drowned in the Guadalquivir River. Miguel de Mañara revitalized the fraternity and persuaded the members to expand their charitable activities and establish a hospice. To embellish the impressive building, which can still be seen today, he commissioned paintings by Bartolomé Murillo and Juan Valdés Leal and the walls of the church were richly ornamented in the high baroque style. In this issue setting out the hospice’s regulations the final 13 pp. reproduce the royal decree by D. Ferdinand VII establishing further rules governing the hospice and dated Seville, 27 September 1831; the pagination of copies varies in that some contain one or more copies of decrees associated with the Santa Caridad and others lack any. With the bookplate of Noel Pinelli, the French parliamentary deputy and bibliophile, who, like Mañara’s family, originally came from Corsica. Faint stain in upper margin of title p., some very occasional spotting, otherwise a good copy.

45. TEJADA, Antonio Gil de: Guía de Lóndres. Nueva edicion. 8vo. vii, 264 pp. With 16 attractive steel engravings of London scenes. Large folding map of London in facsimile. Original cloth. (London), Casa de Huéspedes del Autor, c. 1855. £ 75.

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Palau 102135.

Written at a time of rapid and excited industrial and financial expansion in the capital, the author gives a synopsis of British history, current military and financial information, a survey of municipal and admin- istrative activities, before passing to extensive descriptions of monuments, building, churches, theatres, schools, prisons, etc. Antonio Gil de Tejada was proprietor of the Casa de Huéspedes Española in Cav- endish Square and states that he had taught Spanish at the University of London. This edition is prefera- ble to the first which has no illustrations. Map in facsimile.

46. TRUXILLO, Manuel María: Exhortacion Pastoral, Avisos Importantes y Reglamentos Utiles, que para la mejor observancia de la Disciplina Regular, é ilustracion de la Literatura en todas las Provincias y Colegios Apostólicos de América y Filipinas expone, y publica a todos sus subditos . . Small 4to. (2) ff., 240 pp. With l folding table showing the distribution of the Francis- can Missions. Contemporary quarter calf (slight worming in spine, more pronounced at foot). Ma- drid, Viuda de Ibarra, 1786. £ 400.

Palau 341770. Medina, Bibl. Hispano-Americana, V, 5213. Retana I, 392. Pardo de Tavera 2731. John Carter Brown Library Cat. 3100. Ruiz Lasala 0835. Aguilar Piñal VIII, 1518. Not in Sabin.

Truxillo was Commissary-General of the Indies of the Franciscan Order. He gives both spiritual and practical advice to the missionaries, stresses the importance of study and reading to provide better prepa- ration for educating the native peoples, and encourages religious establishments in the colonies to expand their libraries. Charles III had undertaken to reform higher education in Spain, and soon the religious organizations began to respond to the desire for change and improvement. References are made to California, San Diego, Sonora and the Caroline Islands. Lacks half title p. Signatures o, p & q shaky, pp. 191- 204 & plate slightly damp-stained, small paper fault in p. 159/60 with no loss of text.

47. [URUGUAY.] Memoria de la Comisión Directiva de la Sociedad de Amigos de la Educación Popular. Año 1883. 8vo. 12 pp. Re- cent quarter calf (head & foot of spine worn). Montevideo, Imprenta de La Razón, 1884. £ 60.

Not in Palau.

The Sociedad de Amigos de la Educación Popular was created in 1868 by José Pedro Varela, a writer and politician, who wished to develop in Uruguay ideas which he had seen in practice in the United States. The success of the educational system in that country can largely be traced to him. Short tears repaired in outer margins, printing fault in last f. with loss of a few letters.

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48. [VERGARA y ALBA, Francisco Ruiz de]: Regla, y establecimientos de la Orden y Cavalleria, del Gloriosso Apostol Santiago, Patron de las Spañas, con la Historia del Origen y Principio deella. Folio. (15), 220, (18) ff. (with errors in folia- tion). With engraved title page, full page engraving of the Immaculate Conception and portrait of Philip IV by Pedro de Villafranca y Malagón. Near contemporary vellum, remains of ties (head & foot of spine worn, front hinge split). (Colophon) Madrid, en casa de Domingo Garcia Morràs, 1655. £ 600.

Palau 282427. Salvá 1668. Hispanic Society of America Cat. p. 503.

First edition of this work setting out the rules governing the Order of St. James. It was established by Pope Alexander III in 1175, its primary objective originally having been to expel the infidel Moors from Spain, and the Order was the first to be committed to ran- soming citizens enslaved by the Turks. Over the centuries it had come to embrace the qualities characteristic of Spanish society of the Golden Age, religious fervour, the pur- suit of honour, feats of arms in war, support for the ideal of the nation state, and the twin cults of hidalguía and purity of blood. But the Order had later become a useful source of royal patronage. The volume includes the rules introduced by King Philip IV in 1652 when, after an interval of nearly thirty years, he had summoned a General Chapter of the Orders; disregarding public opinion and to raise money for the war with France and the Catalan and Portuguese rebellions, Philip IV’s favourite, the Conde Duque de Olivares offered hábitos for sale, and shocked conventional beliefs by declaring that the statutes of limpieza were unjust and impious (see L.P. Wright, “The military orders in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish society; the institutional embodiment of a historical tradi- tion” in Past & Present, No. 43 (May 1969), pp. 57-61). The work is enhanced by three fine engravings by Pedro de Villafranca y Malagón; he was appointed engraver to King Phil- ip IV in 1654, and a portrait of the king painted by him hangs in the Prado. Signature of Gonçalo Maldonado on f. (10). Faint traces of damp-staining throughout the volume, more pronounced on final (6) ff., tip of lower corner of f. 20 torn off.

49. [War of the Spanish Succession]. Breve Relacion del Sitio, y Expugnacion de la Villa de Neuburg, por las Armas de su Alteza electoral el señor Duque de Baviera, venida de Ingolstadt el dia ocho de Febrero. 8vo. (2) ff. Recent boards. [colophon] (Madrid), por Antonio Bizarron, Mercador de libros, 1703. £ 200.

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Not in Palau.

An account of the siege and capture in early February 1703 of Neuburg on the banks of the Danube by the Bavarian forces of Maximilian II Emmanuel von Wittelsbach, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726) and governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1692-1706), which confronted the Imperial Hapsburg army. The city was attacked by moonlight on 31 January, the glistening snow confusing and impeding the defending forces. The Palatine Electress refused to capit- ulate, anticipating military support, but as this did not arrive she later surrendered, and in due course retired to a convent. Casualties of the engagement were few. Slight traces of worming in outer margin just touching text. Together with:- [Ditto]. Relacion de la feliz Victoria, que ha conseguido su Alteza Electoral de Baviera, contra los Imperiales, cerca de Skarding, en la vezindad de Passau mandados por el General Conde de Schilick, el dia onze de Março de 1703. 8vo. (2) ff. Modern boards. [colophon] Madrid, por An- tonio Bizarròn (1703).

Palau 259071.

A partial account of the campaign in Upper Austria, and the capture of Schärding on the Inn river by the Imperial forces of the experienced general, Leopold Anton Joseph Schlik zu Bassano und Weiskir- chen, Count von Passaun und Weiskirchen. The battle was, until that date, one of the most devastat- ing of the war. The anonymous author records that the road to Passau was strewn with corpses, the screams of the dying, the cries of the prisoners, abandoned arms and baggage trains, the battle having been one of the bloodiest of the war, 400 Imperial troops killed, entire regiments perished, 1300 infan- try taken prisoner, and 1800 cavalry. An edition exists printed in Seville, Por Juan Francisco de Blas, and another Barcelona, Francisco Guasch, 1703. Small wormhole in outer margins. Together with:- [Ditto]. Noticias indibiduales de los Sucessos, que ha tenido el Serenissimo Señor Duque Elector de Baviera, contra los Imperiales, participadas desde Munik, en cartas de dos, y veinte y quatro de Março de este año de 1703. 8vo. Modern boards. 8 pp. Madrid, por Antonio Bizarròn (1703).

Palau 194056. Maggs, Spanish Books, 1927, no. 665.

An account of the progress after the capture of Neuburg of Maximilian II Emmanuel von Wittelsbach, Elector of Bavaria’s army against the Imperial forces, which began the invasion of the Austrian Tyrol. They marched down the Inn river, passed through Braunau, and thence to Schärding, and engaged the enemy at Schardenberg. On 16 March the castle of Neuburg (am Inn) surrendered. Faint water staining. Together with:- - 28 -

[Ditto]. Relacion del Combate, y feliz Victoria de las Armas de las dos Coronas, contra los Olandeses, y Aliados, en su Campo de Ekeren, y Ca- pell, el dia treinta de Junio de 1703. 8vo. 8 pp. Modern boards. [colophon] Madrid, por Antonio Bizarròn (1703).

Palau 259074. Worldcat lists 1 copy only.

A description of the battle of Eckeren, near Antwerp, on 30 June 1703, which resulted in a French victory. The Spanish general, the Marquis of Bedmar and his army were joined by Marshall Boufflers whose French troops had made a forced march, and Bedmar’s fifteen squadrons of cavalry and as many dragoons and 1500 grenadiers confronted the Dutch General Opdam. Boufflers had been informed by prisoners of the enemy’s plans, and the enemy’s artillery proved inferior. The marshy territory intersected by dykes impeded the movement of troops and of cavalry. Count Brias, a commander in the Spanish army, was killed. The author writes finally that his account of the battle had been read and approved the Marquis of Bedmar himself. Faint water staining.

50. [War of the Spanish Succession.] Relaçam da gloriosa vitoria, que alcançàraõ em Flandes (sic) as Armas das Potencias Aliadas governadas pelo Duque de Malborough, & Vel Marichal Ovverquerk contra o exercito de França mandado pelo Duque de Baviera, & o Marichal de Villa Roy, de que resultou ficar à obediencia delRey Catholico a mayor parte do Paiz bayxo Hespanhol. Publicada em 3. De Julho de 1706. 4to. 15 pp. Wrappers. Lisbon, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram (1706). £ 70.

Palau 256887. Innocêncio XVIII, 233.

An account of the battle of Ramillies on 23 May 1706, one of the Duke of Marlborough’s most decisive victories in the War of the Spanish Succession against the French forces of the Duke de Villeroi. Details of the campaign occupy pp. 1 – 7 and 12 – 15, and pp. 8 – 12 contain the text of a letter from Marlborough and Sicco van Goslinga, field deputy of the Dutch States General, dated 26 May 1706 from the castle of Beaulieu, to the States of Brabant in Brussels assuring them of the clemency of Queen Anne if the French were expelled from the Brabant States, followed by replies from the deputies of the States of Brabant, from the Chancellor and deputies of the Supreme Council of Brabant, and the merchants of Brussels dated 27 May, immediately accept- ing his terms. Tears repaired in pp. 9/15 & last f. without loss, faint traces of worming in lower margin of first 2 ff.