Selection of items presented at the 2020 New York Antiquarian Book Fair (Full descriptions available on request)

1- Extraordinary Spanish medieval illuminated Antiphonal leaf given by the Catholic Kings of Spain to the Dominicans

[Illuminated antiphonal leaf on vellum commissioned by the Catholic Kings]. Leaf from one of the most important antiphonals ever produced in Spain, presented by the Catholic Kings to the Dominican Convent Saint Thomas Aquinas [‘In nativitate virginis m introyto’]. c.1482-92. [Spain, probably Avila]. 35,000 $ This is an extraordinarily rare example of Spanish medieval art, “one of the most sumptuous and artistic series of choir-books in all Spain” (Bordona, Spanish Illumination). Enormous decorated leaf made for the Gradual of Ferdinand of Aragon (1452-1516) and his wife Isabella of Castille (1451-1504), joint rulers of Spain, known as the Catholic Monarchs, patrons of Christopher Columbus and conquerors of the last Spanish city still under Muslim rule (Granada).

The dense decoration is constituted by an abundant flora and fauna (monkeys, birds, dears, and foxes), as well as putti, all painted in lively colors and gold. The arms emblazoned on this leaf can be dated to after their marriage in 1469 and to before their conquest of Granada in 1492. The Gradual was presented by the Catholic Kings to the Dominican Convent of Santo Tomas (Avila, in Old Castille), founded in 1478 and still in existence, as stated in Bordona’s Spanish Illumination.

Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, 10th December 1996; Sam Fogg, London, 1998.

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2- The most important Spanish Architectural treatise of the 17th century, a magnificent publication from a private press

[Architecture & Art] Caramuel Lobkowitz, Juan. Architectura civil recta, y obliqua. Considerada y dibuxada en el Templo de Ierusalen. 1678. Vigevano (at the author’s private press). Emprenta Obispal, Camillo Corrado. Three parts bound in one volume. Contemporary calf. 46,000 $ First printing of the most ambitious Spanish architectural treatise to date, magnificently illustrated with finely crafted full page plates, it contains chapters on painting, sculpture, physiognomy, perspective, amongst other subjects. A provocative work in which the author argues the superiority of “oblique” architecture to “straight” (Vitruvian) architecture, and famously censures Bernini’s designs for the colonnade around St. Peter’s Square, staircase in the Vatican, and equestrian statue of the Emperor Constantine. It is notably difficult to obtain “complete” and in good condition, and its absence from collections of architectural books such as the RIBA/British Architectural Library, Fowler Collection of Early Architectural Books at Johns Hopkins, and Canadian Centre for Architecture, is telling evidence of the difficulty of procuring a copy.

The illustrations comprise 8 plates of the Temple of Jerusalem (Villalpando’s model is rejected in favor of the asymmetrical reconstruction of Jacob Juda León); 49 plates accompany the discussion of the sciences useful to architects; 59 plates illustrate the ‘architectura recta’ and his improvements (eleven different orders of columns); and 41 plates explain the laws of ‘architectura obliqua’, including a series showing how to determine the optical distortions of sculptures. Provenance: the Earls of Macclesfield Library.

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3- The first atlas printed in Mexico, first American edition of the West Indies Portulano

[Atlas printed in Mexico]. Portulano de la America Setentrional Dividido en quarto partes. Publicado Por Order del Esemo. Sor. D, Guadalupe Victoria Primer Presidente de la Republica Mexicana. 1825. Mexico. Contemporary green morocco gilt, blue silk endpapers. 45,000 $ First atlas printed in Mexico, and first edition printed in America of the rare Spanish West Indies Portulano, showing the Spanish controlled ports in the United States, Mexico, the Antilles, Cuba, amongst other places; exceptionally rare, only 6 copies known in institutional collections. The Portulano was first published in Madrid in 1809, a second Madrid edition appeared in 1818, and this is the third overall, entirely re-engraved, a masterpiece of Mexican printing.

Commissioned by the first President of the Mexican Republic, it shows the interest the novel republic in cartography and the mapping of the region. The Portulano is comprised of 112 maps of the West Indies and coastal South America, divided in four parts: Antilles, 15 maps including the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saint Thomas, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago; Colombia, Florida, Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico, 41 maps (including maps of Saint Augustine, Tampa, Pensacola); Cuba, 34 maps; Haiti and Jamaica, 22 maps.

This Portulano is one of the first publications of its kind by the Spanish government, prior to this, navigational maps from the Malaspina expedition had been issued –after Galiano y Valdes, Churruca, Langara, amongst others-, but that was about it. This was the first time a significant corpus of maps was issued on the North American colonies.

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4- Completely annotated and extensively interleaved copy of the Laws of the Indies by 18th century Panama born Jurist

[Ayala, Manuel José de]. Recopilación de Leyes de los Reynos de las Indias. Mandadas imprimir, y publicar por la Magestad Católica del Rey Don Carlos II. 1774. Madrid. Andrés Ortega. 8 volumes in large folio, printed in large paper. Contemporary calf. 90,000 $ An extraordinary copy of the standard lawbook for the Americas, completely annotated and interleaved by Manuel de Ayala, a special version intended to assist in the project of which Ayala was a leading figure: reform the Spanish crown’s legal code for the Americas, however the project never received the official approval and remained unpublished; normally this book consists of 4 volumes, this variant consists of 8 volumes in large folio with very large margins, commissioned to allow hundreds of long annotations and extensively interleaved. The notes record the history of the individual laws, making corrections to the printed text and recording more general observations on the governance of Spanish America.

This exceptional and unique copy remains unstudied and unpublished, and is thus ideal for research. Panama-born jurist Manuel José de Ayala (1728– 1805) was archivist of the Secretaría de Estado and Despacho Universal de Indias and instrumental in the reformation of the legislation of Spain governing American colonies. ‘Es una obra que ofrece un interés extraordinario’ (Ots Capsegui The Hispanic American Historical Review). This work constitutes ‘one of the most valuable sources that can be used for the historical study of our colonial institutions’ (Ots Capsegui).

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5- Description of the festivities held in Bahia, by the author of the first history of Brazil to be born in Brazil

[Bahia; Brazil] Pitta, Sebastian da Rocha. Breve compendio e narracam̧ do funebre espectaculo, que na insigne cidade da Bahia, cabeca̧ da America Portugueza, se vio na morte de el Rey d. Pedro II. 1709. Lisbon. Valentim da Costa Deslandes. Contemporary decorated wrappers. 3,500 $ First edition, a rare work which narrates the festivities and funeral procession carried out in Bahia (Brazil) on the occasion of the death of Pedro II of Portugal, by Rocha Pitta (1660-1738), a Brazilian born writer and historian, author of the first history of Brazil by a Brazilian; such events were a highlight in colonial daily life, works of this nature provide us with a unique glance of the life of the city in the 18th century. Includes sonnets in praise of the author by Francisco de Sousa de Almada, a description of the funeral commemorations, a sermon in honor of Dom Pedro II given at the Cathedral of Bahia, etc. Rocha Pitta wrote Historia da America Portugueza (1730) “the first history of Brazil to have been printed… written by a Brazilian” (Borba de Moraes).

6- Rare journal of the festivities occurred in Bahia for a royal marriage

[Bahia festivities] Matos, Jose Ferreira de (fl. 1729). Diario historico das celebridades, que na Cidade da Bahia se fizeraõ em acca̧ o ̃ de gracaş pelos felicissimos cazamentos dos serenissimos senhores Principes de Portugal, e Castella. 1729. Lisbon. Manoel Fernandes da Costa. Contemporary vellum. 3,000 $ First edition, interesting narration of the festivities and parties that took place in Bahia (Brazil) on the occasion of the marriage of Jose I, King of Portugal, with Maria Ana Victoria of Spain, daughter of Philip V, a significant alliance between the crowns of Spain and Portugal; “esta obra descreve as celebraco̧ es̃ na bahia, por ocasiaõ do matrimonió do principé de espanha com a princesa de portugal” (Borba de Moraes). Includes the ‘Sermaõ na acçaõ de graças, que na cathedral da Bahia…’ by Sebastiaan do Valle Pontes.

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7- Magnificent copy in contemporary red morocco of a most important Spanish scientific publication of the 18th century

Bails, Benito. Elementos de matematica. Joaquin de Ibarra & Viuda de Ibarra. 1775 – 1796. Eleven volumes. Contemporary red morocco, boards with supralibros of the Real Seminario de Nobles de Madrid. 29,500 $ First edition, extraordinary copy of this beautifully illustrated Spanish scientific encyclopedia, here bound in fine contemporary red morocco with the arms of the Biblioteca del Real Seminario de Nobles de Madrid, written by Benito Bails, Director of mathematics and the Real Academia de San Fernando; the illustration is comprised of 314 folding plates, all specifically made for this work, and of singular beauty.

The work is divided into 10 parts, each dealing with a specific subject (mathematics, civil architecture, hydrodynamics, civil architecture, physics, optics, conics sections, architecture, Euler’s calculus and spherical trigonometry, astronomy, etc.). Overall a compendium of the knowledge available at the time in Spain. Bails was well informed, and he included updated information on mathematics (taken from Euler), Blondel and Frezier (architecture), Bezout for arithmetic’s, etc.

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8- First Spanish edition of the first work entirely devoted to women, one of the most remarkable produces of the Iberian incunabular presses

Boccaccio, Giovanni. De las mujeres illustres en romance. 24 October 1494. Zaragoza. Paul Hurus. 19th century red morocco by Zaehnsdorf. 125,000 $ First edition of a monument of Spanish incunabular illustrated printing, the first collection of biographies exclusively devoted to women in Western literature, and amongst the best books to be produced in the Iberian Peninsula, the only complete copy to appear in the market in decades, with the extraordinarily rare leaf 103, containing the life of Pope Joan (probably censored and eliminated from the table of contents) and thus including the full complement of 76 woodcuts.

This is the translation into Spanish of the De claris mulieribus, devoted to the lives and deeds of over 100 not-necessarily religious women from the biblical Eve to the 14th century Queen Giovanna of Naples. In 4 cases, Hurus commissioned a local artist to make the woodcuts, they illustrate the lives of Juno, Dido, Artemisia and Pape Joan, the woman that allegedly became Pope. The rarity is singular, according to ISTC, we find a dozen copies worldwide, only 7 complete and not always in good condition, 3 in the United States.

9- Early ethnographic photo album of the Tribes of the Bolivian-Argentinean Region

[Bolivian Indians; ethnography] Vaudry, Jean-Baptiste. Souvenir d’un voyage au Chaco Boreal [Album of photographs of indigenous peoples from the Chaco Boreal and nearby regions of Eastern Bolivia] ca. 1903-1904. 50 gelatin silver prints. Period green cloth. 12,000 $ Important album of large well-executed ethnographical portraits of people from several tribes of southern and eastern Bolivia showing chiefs, missionary Schools, Family Groups, Villages, Musicians, French Expedition Members and Vaudry himself, most from the remote region of Chaco Boreal, including Chiriguano & Tembeta, Mataco &

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Noctene, Chorote, Toba & Topiete People, Quechua from Potosi and Aymara from Western Bolivia.

The photos are annotated by French engineer Jean-Baptiste Vaudry, in the service of the Bolivian-Argentinean Boundary Commission (1902-1904), he collaborated with the French scientific mission to South America led by Créqui-Monfort and Sénéchal de Lagrange, which carried out an ethnographical research of the Bolivian people. Vaudry issued an account of his travels in 1908 Dans l’Orient bolivien; some photographs of native Bolivians included in this album were used as illustrations in Arthur Chervin’s “Anthropologie Bolivienne” (1908).

10- One of the most significant contributions to the cartography of the Pacific Northwest in the 18th century

Buache, Philippe. Exposé des Découvertes au Nord de la Grande Mer, soit dans le Nord-Est de l'Asie, soit dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique… Découvertes des Russes. 1753. Paris. Philippe Buache. 6 sheets of engraved maps. Recent folder. 12,000 $ Rare, possibly separately published collection of maps by Buache recording the cartographic updates of the Pacific Northwest, including the Russian explorations of coastal Alaska; this is a part of Buache’s magnum opus, the Considérations géographiques et physiques sur les nouvelles découvertes au nord de la Grande Mer, published by the Academie Royale des Sciences over the course of some years.

The Considerations was one of the most influential Pacific Northwest geographies published up to date, as it gathered the knowledge accumulated by several expeditions and discoveries, in a coherent form. This is a rare series of maps demonstrating the exploration and cartography of the northeastern part of Asia and the northwestern part of America.

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11- History of Jesuit activities in Mexico and the American Southwest

[California & Florida early missions] Perez de Ribas, Andres. Historia de los Triumphos de Nuestra Santa Fee entre gentes las maś barbaras y fieras del Nuevo Orbe. 1645. Madrid. Alonso de Paredes. Handsome brown morocco by Spanish master binder Antolin Palomino. 34,000 $ Considerably rare first edition, and a fine copy, of the first chronicle of the Jesuit missions located in the northwest of New Spain (Sinaloa, California and Florida, from 1590 to 1644). It provides an unparalleled description of the upper part of Mexico and what is now the southwest region of the United States in the first half of the 17th century. Of particular interest is the account of Don Pedro Porter y Casanate’s voyage along the California coast, and the text of Fray Jacinto Cortes’s letter describing his visit to the “Islas de Californias” in 1642, with an important description of the local Indians. Its author was one of the first missionaries in Sinaloa, serving there from 1604 to 1620. “Some account is also given of the conversion of the Tepehuanes, the mission of [Father] Parras, and the martyrdom of the nine Jesuit fathers in Florida.” (Wagner, Spanish Southwest).

12- The Statues of the Order of Rhodes, first illustrated edition

Caoursin, Guillaume. Stabilimenta Rhodiorum militum. 23 August 1496. Ulm. Johann Reger. Bound in fine 19th century morocco, signed Masson-Debonnelle. 40,000 $ First illustrated edition of the Statues of the Order of Rhodes, the first edition edited by Caoursin, comprising 20 full-page plates specifically prepared for this edition; the woodcuts are the work of an anonymous artist, who also illustrated the Historiae Obsidionis Rhodiae, published the same year. Guillaume Caoursin was vice-chancellor of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers). The illustration of the Stabilimenta is quite varied; the woodcuts are powerful and well composed. Of special interest is the depiction of the construction of the hospital at Jerusalem regarding aspects of both art and cultural history. We can’t trace the book as having appeared at auction, and only few institutional holdings.

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13- Important and early Spanish writing book

Casanova, Joseph de. Primera parte del Arte de Escrivir todas formas de letras. 1650. Madrid. Diaz de la Carrera. Contemporary vellum. 10,000 $ First edition; an uncommon, and beautifully produced work on calligraphy made in Spain. The book was published and paid by Casanova himself, who intended to sell it as a textbook to his students at the Escuela de Caligrafia (Guadalajara, Madrid). The illustration is composed of a fine engraved portrait of the author made by Pedro de Villafranca in 1649, a title page with type-ornament border and engraved armorial, and 30 full-page copper plates by Casanova illustrating alphabets, letters and handwriting; the “aprobacion” or license for the book was given by Juan Nieremberg, possibly the most influential Jesuit of Spain in the 17th century.

14- Important chronicle of the East Indies: China, the Philippines, and Japan. The first account of Angkor Wat by an Occidental

[China, Philippines, Japan] Ribadeneira, Marcelo de. Historia de las Islas del Archipielago, y reynos dela gran China, Tartaria, Cuchinchina, Malaca, Siam, Camboxa y Jappon, y… de la Provincia de San Gregorio de las Philippinas. 1601. Barcelona. Gabriel Graells & Giraldo Dotil. Near contemporary vellum. 15,000 $ First edition, very rare, early and influential history of progress of European settlements in South East Asia, China, Siam, the Philippines and Cambodia; the account is centered around Franciscan activity in the region, and includes significant details on the Philippines, the first European printed account of Angkor Wat, the persecution of Christians in Japan, and a large Chinese section. In 1598 he returned to Spain via Mexico, proving the King with an account of the journey and missionary efforts. The inquisition opened a case to Ribadeneira regarding some of the contents in this work.

Aside from being the first western news of Angkor Wat, it is also an important testimony, as the city would be abandoned shortly.

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15- Sammelband of Rare First Editions by the Renowned Botanist Clusius

Clusius, Charles de; Acosta, Cristobal; Monardes, Nicolas. Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam [with] Rariorum aliquot stirpium [with] Simplicium medicamentorum ex Novo Orbe [and] Aromatum & medicamentorum in Orientali India. 1582-1576-1582 & 1582. Antwerp. Christopher Plantin. 18th century half calf over marbled boards, red lettering piece. 18,500 $ Rare first edition of naturalist l’Ecluse’s botany of Sir Francis Drake’s 1577-80 circumnavigation (first by an Englishman), the first printed book in botanical literature to be substantially based on a specific trans-Atlantic voyage of any kind, and indeed the first substantial record of Drake’s achievement to be printed. Here bound with the first edition of L’Ecluse’s extensively illustrated work on the flora of the Iberian Peninsula and two first editions of L’Ecluse’s translations of recent botanical/medicinal findings from the newly discovered lands, namely the third part of Nicolas Monardes’ work on New World medicinal plants, which was the first printed work devoted to the botanical and medicinal discoveries made in the Americas and “for many years the most important work on the medicinal plants of the New World” (Garrison & Morton), and Acosta’s botany of the East Indies.

16- Parties in Colonia del Sacramento, extremely rare poem

[Colonia del Sacramento]. Breve relacion, que da ́ un tronco de las fiestas, que hizo en la placa̧ de la Colonia del Sacramento el Governador de ella Antonio Pedro de Vasconcelos. 1732. Lisbon. Officina de Pedro Ferreira. Unbound in modern folder. 2,500 $ First and only edition -one of 3 known copies- of a this poem of the parties held in Colonia del Sacramento for the celebration of the marriage between the Royal Houses of Portugal and Spain, “muito rara narrativa” (Borba de Moraes); this is one of the earliest and very few printed works to relate to Colonia del Sacramento. The marriage was a relevant political event, the produce of intense diplomatic negotiations which aimed to securing an alliance between both houses. Only one copy recorded according to OCLC, at the JCB, we can trace another copy in Portugal.

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17- Sammelband of 12 unrecorded Spanish comedias sueltas of the 17th century

[Comedias; Perez de Montalban; Vega Carpio; Villaizan; and others]. Sammelband of 12 unrecorded Spanish comedias sueltas. S.a. [first part of the 17th century]. S.l. [Spain]. Original vellum. 24,000 $ Exceptional sammelband of early Spanish Comedias Sueltas, comprised of 12 unrecorded comedias; the volume contains one comedy by the consecrated playwright Lope de Vega, one by Guillén de Castro, 5 by the much younger Juan Pérez de Montalbán and 5 by the Jerónimo de Villaizán and other playwrights. The fact that the majority of the playwrights died in the 1630s and that most of the first known editions of these comedies go back to the same period would seem to indicate that these plays were printed around the same time, being the latest new releases. The Comedias Sueltas were so popular that publishers, in a rare case of printing freedom in Spain, evaded the strict control of the censorship by printing them, as is the case of our volume of Comedias Sueltas, without the required details of a printer or date.

18- Extraordinary collection of Spanish “Comedias” (plays)

[Comedias sueltas; various authors]. Important collection of 1291 Spanish plays, published between the mid-18th century and early 20th century. Various places. Various printers. Housed mostly into boxes, all loose. 48,000 $ Extraordinary collection of Spanish Comedias Sueltas, the content and size of this collection makes it an important addition to the Spanish drama collections which exist in public institutions. It contains more items than those recorded in the bibliographies of these institutions: NYPL (Bergman and Szmuk), Texas (Vinson Boyer), and Wayne State University (Sullivan and Bershas).

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historical study of the theatre and of publishing and printing in Spain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the works are original Spanish plays, there are adaptations of Spanish Golden Age plays with Calderón, Lope de Vega, Moreto and Tirso de Molina well represented; the major playwrights of the 18th century –Comella, Cañizares, Zavala y Zamora, etc.- are also well-represented. Contains early editions of plays of major dramatists of the 19th century such as Martínez de la Rosa, Tamayo y Baus, López de Ayala. An interesting aspect of this collection is the abundance of plays by minor dramatists whose works are now extremely rare.

19- First scientific book printed in Havana, and the most profusely illustrated

[Cuba; natural history] Parra, Antonio. Descripción de diferentes piezas de Historia Natural de las mas del ramo marítimo representadas en setenta y cinco láminas. 1787. Habana. Imprenta de la Capitania General. Contemporary calf, probably a Cuban binding. 35,000 $ The first book on natural history printed in Havana, one of the first and the most profusely illustrated at that time, rare first edition, here in the contemporary binding and in exceptional condition. The 75 full page plates are made by Parra’s son, Manuel Antonio Parra y Munoz, born in Cuba, and represent fishes, crustacea, geology, human deformities, specifically a black slave with a hernia, he has recently been identified as Domingo Fernandez, and is one of the first Caribbean slaves to be portrayed in a printed source. Parra’s collection was famous in Cuba -where he opened it to the public- and across the Atlantic, it travelled to Spain following the request of the King.

The 75 plates is a substantial portion of the engravings published in Havana in the 18th century. “One of the earliest specimens of printing in Havana, and contains the first copper-plates engraved in Cuba” (Sabin).

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20- First book published by Darwin and his fieldwork basis for his Origin of the Species; fine copy in the contemporary green cloth, with a fine provenance

[Darwin, Charles R.; King, P. Parker; & Fitzroy, Robert]. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle. 1839. London. H. Colburn. Four volumes. Contemporary editor’s green cloth. 45,000 $ First edition, the official account of the voyages of the Beagle, one of the greatest marine surveys of the 19th century, and one of the most important voyages of exploration for the history of science. The first volume contains Captain King’s account of the expedition and survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. The second volume and appendix describe the second voyage of the Beagle, which visited Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and other parts of the Pacific; it was a voyage of circumnavigation, in which Darwin accompanied in the position of naturalist. Finally, the third volume is Darwin’s own account of the Beagle’s voyage and his first published book, which describes the fieldwork that served as basis for his On the Origin of Species and the theory of evolution. “The voyage of the ‘Beagle’ has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career" (Darwin).

21- First English edition of the history of the Great Tamerlane, conqueror of much of Asia and the Middle East

Du Bec-Crespin, Jean. The Historie of the Great Emperour Tamerlan wherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, skalings, taking of cities and strong places. 1597. London. Willam Ponsonby. 17th century calf, rebacked in the 19th century. 20,000 $ First English edition of this rare work on the life, conquests, travels and military deeds of the Great Tamerlane, the 14th century leader and Emperor who conquered much of Asia, the Middle East and stretched to Russia and the Byzantine Empire; this particular

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account purportedly derived from an Arabic biography by Alhacen.

“Temur undertook a series of increasingly wide-ranging military campaigns by which he created an empire stretching from Syria to India… By 1393 he had conquered Iran. In 1394 his marched as far as Moscow. In 1398 he sacked and burned Delhi...” (Mathew R. Martin “Tamburlaine the Great”). Rare, we can trace only 2 copies including this one at auction in the last 70 years. Provenance: James Sotheby (1682-1742); C.W.H. Sotheby (bookplate); Cottesloe library.

22- Rare Portuguese Poetess’ “Romancero”

Ferreira de Lacerda, Dona Bernarda. Soledades de Bucaco a las Religiosas Carmelitas Descalcas. 1634. Lisbon. Mathias Rodrigues. Old vellum, reused. 4,000 $ First edition, rare work of poetry by Portuguese Nun, Ferreira de Lacerda, consisting of ballads; though Portuguese, Lacerda also composed in Spanish, understandable for the union of both Crowns at the time-, the main poem is in Spanish though other short poems are in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Latin. Dona Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda was a celebrated Portuguese poetess, who was born at Oporto in 1596. In addition to the poems in this volume, she published another important book, Espana Libertada, a poem in twenty cantos, which elicited a laudatory sonnet from Lope de Vega.

23- First Florida-Born author; promoting indigenous Saints

Florencia, Francisco de. Origen de los dos celebres santuarios de la Nueva Galicia, obispado de Guadalaxara en la America Septentrional. Noticia cierta de los Milagros Favores que hace la Santissima Virgen. 1757. Mexico. Biblioteca Mexicana. Contemporary vellum. 5,000 $ Written by the first Florida-born author, a defender of the cultural independence of Americans, this is an important source for the history of Guadalajara and Nueva Galicia (Jalisco, Zacatecas, Colima, and Aguascalientes), and the

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Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Tzapopán and San Juan de los Lagos; it is illustrated with 3 extraordinary engravings, original to this edition,.

The author here promotes indigenous Saints, preaches on the virtues of the Mexican people; he may be considered instrumental to the establishment of a separate Mexican national identity. Provenance: bookplate of Frederik Starr.

24- First edition of Galileo’s most significant mathematical work “The first modern textbook of physics” (Horblit)

Galilei, Galileo. Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali. 1638. Leiden. Elzevir. Near contemporary vellum. On hold First edition of Galileo’s last and perhaps greatest work, widely regarded as “the first modern textbook of physics” (Horblit); a fine copy, larger than most and in a near contemporary binding. “Two New Sciences underlines modern physics not only because it contains the elements of the mathematical treatment of motion, but also because most of the problems that came rather quickly to be seen as problems amenable to physical experiment and mathematical analysis were gathered together in this book with suggestive discussions of their possible solution” (DSB).

Galileo sought and found general principles in the motion of falling bodies, projectiles and the pendulum. “Mathematicians and physicists of the later seventeenth century, Isaac Newton among them, rightly supposed that Galileo had begun a new era in the science of mechanics. It was upon his foundations that Huygens, Newton and others were able to erect the frame of the science of dynamics, and to extend its range (with the concept of universal gravitation) to the heavenly bodies” (PMM).

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25- The description of an important painting by Francisco de Goya; one of the earliest descriptions of his work ever printed

[Goya, Francisco de] Bermúdez, Cean. Analisis de un cuadro que pintó D. Francisco Goya para la Catedral de Sevilla. 1817. Madrid. Imprenta Real y Mayor. Luxurious morocco by Brugalla. 4,500 $ First edition of this extraordinarily rare work on a painting by Francisco de Goya following the commission by the Cathedral of Seville for a painting destined to one of its Altars; the author of this opuscule starts by describing the physical appearance and the preparation carried by Goya before commencing his work, and follows with the actual description of the painting, for which it goes into details, occupying most of the text. The commission was no small task, the Cathedral of Seville held artwork by the most important Spanish artists. We can trace 5 institutional copies.

26- The first book on hunting in Spanish, first book dealing with hunting in the Americas, and the first illustrated work on hunting published in Spanish

[Hunting] Argote de Molina, Gonzalo. Libro, de la Monteria. 1582. Seville. Andrea Pescioni. Spanish 18th or early 19th century mottled calf. 28,000 $ First edition of the first Spanish book on hunting, the first to deal with hunting in the Americas, and the first to be illustrated in Spanish.

From the 35 woodcut illustrations we find 3 with the earliest American hunting scenes (tiger hunting in Mexico and ostrich hunting in Peru), also leopard and lion hunting in the Orient, and a bullfight scene. A work considered to be of “extreme rarity” (Harting); “fort rare” (Souhart). This is a particularly nice copy, a rare occurrence; in the 19th century, bibliographer Salva writes about the near-impossibility of procuring a copy in perfect condition.

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27- First Spanish manual on calligraphy and handwriting, a fine piece of Spanish Renaissance printing

Iciar, Juan de. Arte subtilissima, por la qual se enseña a escrevir perfectamente, hecho y experimentado, y agora; de nuevo añadido. 1550. Zaragoza. Pedro Bernúz. 18th century English calf. 35,000 $ The first calligraphy and handwriting manual published in Spain, and one of the most beautiful books printed in Spain in the 16th century, influential into the 18th century, here in the fine Macclesfield copy. Second edition, improved and added over the first. The remarkable illustration comprises a title-page incorporating insignia of the dedicatee, portrait of the author, each letterpress text page enclosed by a four- piece woodcut border, full-page woodcut writing samples (some cut white-on-black using criblé techniques), every block signed by the cutter Juan de Vingles. The work’s rarity is considerable, Lyell comments that Iciar’s writing books were ‘thumbed out of existence’. Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield Library.

28- Rare biography of a two-term 16th century Viceroy of India

[India] Pereira de Macedo, Francisco de Santo Agostinho. Vida del grande d. Lvis de Attayde, tercer Conde de Attogvia, y Virrey de la India dos vezes. 1633. Madrid. Imprenta del Reino. Contemporary vellum. 6,500 $ Rare first and only edition of this biography of Don Luis de Ataide, Viceroy of Portuguese India twice, famous for his defense of India from the Muslim alliance, by the Jesuit Pereira de Macedo; Ataide served twice as Viceroy of India, first from 1568 to 1571, and then from 1578 to 1581. Before, he had gained some fame fighting in Africa and for his participation in Esteban de Gama’s expedition to the Red Sea, where he was knighted in Mount Sinai; he was later sent to the court of Emperor Charles V and took part of his expedition against the Lutherans. “He was named viceroy at a critical period for the Portuguese authority in India. An alliance had been concluded by the Nizam, the Zamorin of Malabar, and the Chief of Canara and Balagat, with a view by their combined forces to drive the Portuguese out of India.” (The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, p.855).

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29- Printed in Nahuatl by a woman, for the evangelization of Mexican natives

[ Indian languages] León, Martín de. Primera parte del sermonario del tiempo de todo el año, duplicado, en lengua Mexicana. 1614. Mexico. Viuda de Diego Lopez Davalos. Contemporary vellum. 27,500 $ First edition, one of the largest and most significant early works printed entirely in Nahuatl, written by a Mexican; the Sermonario’s intended audience were native Mexicans, whom, by the end of the 16th century, were a considerable portion of the population in and around Mexico City, this accounted for a pressing need to communicate in their language, making books written in Nahuatl of immense value, and at the same time, the intense use given to them being the reason of their low rate of survival. Printed by the widow of Davalos, thus one of the earliest books printed by women in the Americas. The author also wrote Camino del Cielo (a confessional and catechism in Nahuatl). Woodcut to title, and a larger woodcut representing the Virgin kneeling and praying illustrate the work.

30- Rare Mexican Inquisition broadside forbidding books, including some printed in Philadelphia

[Inquisition broadside prohibiting books]. Nos los inquisidores apostolicos, contra la heretica pravedad, y apostasia, en la ciudad de Mexico. 1806. Mexico. Printed broadside, unbound. 6,000 $ Rare Mexican inquisition decree prohibiting a sizeable amount of books for the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which included Texas and California, containing a list of 40 books and tracts “Prohibidos Aun para los que tienen Licencia”, which were only partially censored, and another 6 “Prohibidos in Totum”, which meant they were forbidden in their entirety, with descriptions and explanations.

Interestingly, it includes: “Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu, 2 tomos en 12°., que se dicen impresos en Filadelfia en 1794, sin nombre de autor”, a work printed in Philadelphia. A fine example. We find copies at Princeton, Indiana and Berkeley.

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31- Edict by the Mexican Inquisition opposing Santa Teresa de Avila

[Inquisition in Mexico]. Nos los inquisidores contra la heretica pravedad y apostasia en la Ciudad de Mexico. 10 April 1619. Mexico. Unbound. 10,000 $ Important broadside by the Inquisition of Mexico opposing Santa Teresa de Avila, and against a decision taken in Spain to name her as patron of Spain -marking a peculiar territorial distinction; Santa Teresa was a popular yet controversial Spanish mystic, influential in the Americas. The broadside is signed by inquisitors Gutiérrez Flores, Bazán de Albornoz, and Paraya, with a note clarifying it was received and read at the Convent of San Geronimo of Mexico, which was to house Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Underlying the polemic was a deep-rooted misogyny which was evident in the rejection of Santa Teresa as patron saint of Spain. Quevedo laid this bare when he described Saint Teresa as ‘a virgin’ tied to a spinning wheel, namely a mere woman not an intellectual, who could not be compared to the apostle Santiago in the celestial ranking.

32- Containing the Decree expelling the Jewish population from the Iberian Peninsula, written by a Priest burned at the stake

[Jewish expulsion of Spain and later Conversos legislation] Celso, Hugo. Las leyes de todos los reynos de Castilla. 1540. Alcala de Henares. Iuan de Brocar. Contemporary limp vellum with yap edges. 9,500 $ One of the most significant legal works published in Spain in the 16th century, widely used well into the 17th, includes the legislation regarding the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, as well as the legislation regarding the Moors. The work is written by a colorful Priest, whose private life involved debts, marrying, imprisonment, persecution by the Inquisition, and probably burning at the stake (first his image and later probably in person). “Under the headings 'Convertidos' and 'Reconciliados' there are further references to the 'Marannos ' or 'New Christians.' (Maggs, Judaica & Hebraica).

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33- Secret report of the state of Chile, Peru and Colombia

Juan, Jorge; Ulloa, Antonio de. Noticias secretas de America, sobre el Estado Naval, military y politico de los Reynos del Peru y Provincias de Quito, costas de Nueva Granada y Chile: gobierno y regimen particular de los pueblos de Indios. 1826. London. R. Taylor. Contemporary quarter green calf. 5,000 $ First edition, a rare report of Peru, Chile and present-day Colombia; it comprises a report of the military and political government of South America, and the state of the coastal defenses, information understandably best kept secret, it also includes details on the government of the Indians, their oppression and abuses. “These secret memoirs, in which everything concerning the manners, government, and state of defence of that portion of America which once belonged to Spain, is accurately described, are written with that truth, impartiality and good judgement which distinguished the informants” (Sabin). “It is the most frank and searching examination of the affairs of the colonies that has come down from the colonial period.” (Maggs).

34- The first book on American drinks

Leon Pinelo, Antonio de. Question moral si el Chocolate quebranta el ayuno eclesiastico. Tratase de otras bebidas y confecciones que se usan en varias provincias. 1636. Madrid. Viuda de Juan Gonzalez. 19th century quarter calf. 12,000 $ First edition of the first book on American drinks, a fine copy, “The first book on American beverages” (Nebenzahl); chocolate was one of America’s greatest and more profusely spread contributions to the old world upon the discovery, the 17th century was the presentation of the grain in Europe, subsequently, societies began to succumb to its taste. “First and only edition of a fascinating book which can justly be called the first book on ‘American drinks’.” (Lathrop Harper). “All beverages used by the Indians in New Spain, Peru, Nicaragua, and Guatemala are reviewed and Pinelo concludes that the American Indians drink too much. He mentions 118 varieties, not including mixed drinks.” (Nebenzahl).

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35- Letter by Malaspina addressed to the Viceroy of Peru, onboard the Descubierta

Malaspina, Alejandro. ALS, from Alejandro Malaspina to the Viceroy of Peru. On board the Descubierta, October 1793. Modern folder. 10,000 $ Important collection of three autograph letters, including one by Alejandro Malaspina on the preparations for the final stretch of the Malaspina Expedition (1789–1794), the most important Spanish expedition of the Enlightment; they sailed from Lima on 16 October 1793, only 3 days following this exchange. In these letters, Malaspina and Taboada y Lemos, Viceroy of Peru, discuss the funds taken on board the Descubierta and the Atrevida belonging to the King of Spain and whether these had to be declared in the Registro at Callao or could be declared instead at Montevideo, the last American port at which the ships would anchor before making the voyage across the Atlantic.

These letters illustrate the administrative duties which even grand-scale exploration voyages such as Malaspina’s were required to carry out.

36- Printed in Maranhão, the sole known copy, on Squaring the circle for students

[Maranhão printing] Belfort, Jose Joaquim Vieira. Quadratura do circulo ou reciprocidade de hum circulo dado ao seu quadrado correspondente, e vice-versa de um quadrado dado ao seu circulo correspondente em superficie e gravidade. 1836. Maranhão. Typ. de Abranches e Lisboa. Modern folder. 3,000 $ Apparently the only known copy of this rare work produced in the Maranhão by an author born in the region, first edition. The work deals with the ancient problematic of squaring the circle, a problem which consists of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge; this was proven impossible in 1882 and is today used as a metaphor for trying to do the impossible. We could trace no copies in OCLC, here are no copies in the national library of Portugal, nor in the national library of Brazil.

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37- Bound in contemporary red morocco with arms of Salva; one of the most famous Spanish hunting books, including 15 chapters on falcons

Martinez de Espinar, Alonso. Arte de Ballesteria, y Monteria. 1761. Madrid. Antonio Marin. Contemporary Spanish red morocco, with arms of the Biblioteca de Salvá. 8,000 $ Fine copy of one of the most important Spanish hunting books, finely illustrated with 5 engraved plates by Fernando Palomino; “...a rare classic on Spanish hunting which was written at the period when the crossbow was giving way to the musket. The work is of interest to falconers and the last of the three books into which it is divided contains fifteen chapters on falcons” (Schwerdt). This is the third edition, first published in 1644. “These extracts will serve to show the hawks known to falconers in Spain, and the Spanish names for them. Many of these names introduced by the Moors into Spain, and thence carried into France, are derived from the Arabic” (Harting). Provenance: Vicente Salvá y Pérez and his son Pedro Salvá y Mallén, arms on binding; library sold to Ricardo Heredia, bookplate; Thomas Francis Fremantle, engraved bookplate; finally the Cottesloe Military Library.

38- First Spanish edition of Marx’s Capital, by Deville, influential to Spain and America

Marx, Karl. El Capital. Resumido y acompanado de un estudio sobre el socialismo científico por Gabriel Deville. 1887. Madrid. Ricardo Fé. Later quarter calf. 25,000 $ The exceedingly scarce first Spanish edition of this translation, of immense influence to Socialism in Spain and later the Americas, more influential and superior to the one published in the same year by Zafrilla. The work is of the utmost scarcity with only a handful of copies listed on OCLC. This Spanish translation was made from the French of Gabriel Deville, the great French socialist theoretician, politician and diplomat, who did more than almost anyone else to raise awareness of Karl Marx's theories of the weaknesses of capitalism, most effectively through the present work, which came to have a profound influence upon the spreading of Marxist thought throughout the

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Spanish speaking part of the world. The scarcity of this book can be underlined if one considers the virulent war that was waged against all socialist and Marxist literature during and after the Spanish Civil War by the regime of Francisco Franco.

39- Probably the smallest medieval miniature manuscript recorded

[Medieval miniature illuminated manuscript on vellum]. Book of Hours for the use of Paris. France, probably Paris, ca. 1325. 38 x 28 mm. 158 leaves, illuminated initials, 8 large miniatures. Fifteenth century brown calf over wooden boards. 145,000 $ Exceptional medieval minuscule manuscript, one of the smallest known of the Middle Ages, and perhaps the smallest known today compared to the other minuscule manuscripts that have been catalogued so far; this kind of minuscule manuscripts, which were often held in reliquiaries, have been largely destroyed and are thus of extreme rarity today. This survival offers a unique chance to examine an extraordinarily rare side of manuscript production of the Middle Ages.

This manuscript appears to be in fact of the smallest format that has ever been recorded compared to the other manuscripts so far catalogued, including a miniature psalter from the Lorraine c.1280-90, 48 x 30 mm), an English psalter from the 14th century, measuring 50 x 40 mm (Pierpont Morgan Library) and a dated book of hours from 1474, measuring 52 x 30 mm (London, British Library). Miniature books became fashionable during the Renaissance but not really earlier; it is likely that these tiny manuscripts presented a tantalizing challenge to some ambitious scribes and artists, particularly those who wished to demonstrate their skill and precision on a tiny-scale.

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40- Illustrated Mexican incunable, printed by the third printer in Mexico, first with American content

[Mexican incunable]. Estatutos generales de Barcelona, para la Familia Cismontana, de la Orden de nuestro Seraphico Padre S. Francisco. 1585. Mexico. Pedro Ocharte. Early vellum. 24,000 $ First Mexican edition and a very early American printing with newly added American content, of the regulations of the Franciscan order; produced by the third printer of the Americas, Pedro Ocharte.

Includes the “Estatutos generales de los Frayles de las Indias”, provisions for Franciscan activities in America; these statutes formalized the ban on anyone of Jewish ancestry joining the Franciscan order through a ‘limpieza de sangre’ clause. Ocharte took over the printing house from Juan Pablos in 1563, who in turn produced the first printed works in the New World; from 1572 until 1580, he was incarcerated by the Inquisition under charges of Lutheranism, he then resumed his activity until 1592. The work is illustrated with a woodcut on title page and a full-page woodcut representing Saint Francis.

41- Mexican sammelband of ordinances dealing with urbanism, beverages, and administration of Mexico City, including a double-page map of the city

[México City planning and urbanism; sammelband of Ordenanzas] Mayorga, Martín de. [Coleccion de Ordenanzas de varios Cuerpos y Oficinas… de esta Capital de México]. Various dates, between 1724-1806. Contemporary Mexican calf. 22,000 $ Important Mexican sammelband in its genuine condition, containing information considered relevant for a high-ranking colonial officer: ordinances regarding the administration and city planning of the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and including the very important Ordenanza de la division, which shows the “modern” city of Mexico, following the Bourbon reforms. This Ordinance became of the outmost importance

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in the daily life of the last quarter of the 18th century, as it affected the daily life of citizens and their relation with the administration.

The Ordinances are of a varied nature, and are all accounted for as per the contemporary manuscript index; the subjects dealt with include forbidden beverages, playing cards, powder, pulquerias (where the Mexican native drink, the pulque, was distributed), home for the homeless, a general ordinance of the administration of Mexico City, amongst others.

42- Fine drawing made in México for the King of Spain to illustrate the height of Mexican silver production

[México silver mining drawing]. Razon de las Correspondencias de Plata de los Rs. de Minas de este Reyno q. se expresa’. [c.1724–1738]. [Mexico]. Manuscript broadside mounted on rollers; clean and bright colors. 22,500 $ Striking manuscript broadside relating to the silver production in New Spain at the time of the highest input in its history, consisting of pen and ink tables enclosed within a wide watercolour and ink floral border with the arms of Spain on the upper border and including two watercolour portraits, most probably of the short-lived Spanish monarch Luis I who reigned for only seven months in 1724 and his wife, Louise Élisabeth d’Orléans.

The tables show the values of silver by weight, including values for silver sources from San Luis Potosi, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Cuichapa, Temascaltepec, etc. This beautiful contemporary manuscript broadside contains detailed and finely-executed tables relating to silver production in New Spain at a time when Mexican silver outputs reached and surpassed their previous maxima.

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43- Very Rare First Edition of Monardes’ Influential Early Work on American Botany

Monardes, Nicolás. Dos libros. El uno trata de todas las cosas q(ue) trae(n) de n(uest)ras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de medicina. 1565. Seville. Sebastian Trugillo. Bound in later stiff vellum. 55,000 $ Very rare first edition, virtually unacquirable for the past half century or more, of the first printed work devoted to the botanical and medicinal discoveries made in the Americas, “for many years the most important work on the medicinal plants of the New World” (Garrison & Morton). Written by physician Monardes in Seville, the center of the Spanish printing industry and the only port from which ships were authorized to sail to and from the New World. Born in 1493, in the very year Columbus returned from his first voyage, Monardes thus both occupied a front row seat for first decades of the ‘Columbian Exchange’ and was ideally positioned to disseminate his findings to a wider European, indeed global, audience. Monardes shared much with his contemporary Garcia d’Orta, the Portuguese physician stationed in India and famed for his Coloquios dos simples e drogas (Goa, 1563): “Monardes, like Garcia d’Orta, has a strong claim to be regarded as one of the fathers of the science of pharmacognosy” (Boxer).

44- A monstrous fetus resembling the human body found in a goat

[Monsters] Rodriguez, Antonio Joseph. Carta-respuesta a un ilustre prelado, sobre el Feto Monstruoso, hallado poco ha en el vientre de una cabra. 1753. Madrid. Fine green morocco by Brugalla. 2,200 $ First edition, written by Cistercian Antonio Jose Rodriguez, it is a description mixing science, superstition and religion of the monstrous fetus found in a goat: the tongue resembled that of a human but finishing in two parts, its arms and shoulder were also human ‘pescuezo, hombros, y brazos eran tambień de figura humana’. Feyjoo y Montenegro also writes of the episode in his Reflexiones Filosoficas,́ con ocasioń de una criatura humana hallada poco ha en el vientre de una Cabra.

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45- First significant history of Chile

Ovalle, Alonso de. Historica relatione del Regno di Cile, e delle Missioni e ministerio che esecita in quelle la Compagnia di Giesu. 1646. Rome. Francesco Cavalli. Elegant 19th century burgundy morocco by Petit. 24,000 $ The first significant printed book devoted to Chile, illustrated with plates and maps, written by a Chilean-born historian and Jesuit; Ovalle provides a description of the geography and natural history of the province of Chile, including Tierra del Fuego, and describes the native populations who inhabited the region. Complementing it there is a wealth of visual images, with renderings of natives, maps, architecture and city life. Ovalle also discusses the early contact period between the Spanish and Indians, the ensuing conflicts, the Spanish settlement, conversion, Araucanian Indians (their social structure, political organization, diet, and domestic life), the role of the Society of Jesus, etc. First Italian edition printed the same year as the first in Spanish. The illustrations show Indian customs, city plans, architecture, and a map of the region considered one of the most relevant cartographic productions on Chile.

46- Important 19th century photographic album of Paraguay by San Martin

[Paraguay photo album] San Martin, Manuel. Vistas del Paraguay. [c. 1890]. 48 albumen print photographs. Presentation binding of half leather over blue cloth covered boards. 8,000 $ Exceptional album of photographs of Paraguay by Manuel de San Martin, active from the 1860s and one of the most important pioneer photographers to work in Paraguay; the first 24 are views taken along the Paraguay Central Railway, and include images of the construction of the new line from Villa Rica to Encarnación,

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and the last 24 are scenes of the local indigenous population buying and selling produce such as cassava, porotos, oranges and wool, and streetscapes in Villarrica, including views of several private residences. San Martin is well known for his anthropological studies of the indigenous groups of the Gran Chaco – the Guaraní, Ayoreode, and Chiquitanohe and his commercial albums, all under the title Vistas del Paraguay, though each containing different subjects.

47- First edition of this rare work on Medicine, bound in green morocco for the Duke of Angouleme, and first book printed in Sanlucar de Barrameda

Peramato, Pedro. Opera Medicinalia: De elementis. De Humoribus. De temperamentis [with] Liber de facultatibus nostrum corpus dispensantibus [with] De plenitudine et cacochimia liber, qui praeambulus est. 1576. Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Fernando Díaz for Alonso Pérez de Guzmán. Near contemporary morocco, supralibros with the arms of Charles de Valois, Duke of Angouleme. 20,000 $ First edition of this rare Spanish medical work by Peramato, bound for Charles de Valois Duke of Angouleme, and the first book printed in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a town well known for being the point of departure of several Conquistadors to America. Charles de Valois (1573-1650) was the illegitimate son of King Charles IX and Marie Touchet, famed for his siege of La Rochelle and military exploits, he was educated at the request of his father by his uncle Henry III; after a careful education he was destined for the Knights of Malta, and was shortly made Grand Prior of France. Little is known about Peramato’s life, except that he was the preferred physician to the wealthy and nobles of Cordoba and killed with wife over an affair.

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48- Remarkable album of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War

[Philippines; Spanish-American War]. Historically important album of the Phiippines during the Spanish-American war. c.1898-1900. 104 photos mounted on cards. Original blue chagrin, just lightly rubbed. 25,000 $ Large and fine photo album of the Philippines depicting the Spanish- American war and Philippine independence struggle; the album was likely compiled by a U.S. soldier, stationed in Hawaii. The album contains 104 photos of the Philippines -and a few of Hawaii- , depicting natives, cities, war scenes, landscapes, U.S. soldiers stationed in the Philippines, U.S. garrisons and soldiers interacting with the Filipino population.

The historical background is the Philippine revolution to claim independence from Spain (started in 1896), American forces joined the fight in 1898 on the occasion of the outbreak of the so-called Spanish-American War. Following the arrival of American troops and the defeat of the Spanish forces at the Battle of Manila Bay, Aguinaldo (leader of the revolutionary forces) went back to the Philippines to help the American forces defeat the Spanish, it is likely that this album, which includes multiple views of American soldier’s garrisons and troops, is compiled by one of the American soldiers fighting in the islands, though.

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49- Extraordinary Philippine sammelband, including a work printed Pimpin, one concerning the translation of the Port of Cavite to Lampon, and a Mexican- printed work on the contemporary conditions of the Philippines

[Philippine sammelband]. Bound volume containing 9 pamphlets, the first 5 dealing with Philippine affairs. 1652, 1656, 1654, 1654, 1655, 1655, 1638, 1649. Manila, Mexico, Granada & Madrid. Contemporary limp vellum. 16,000 $ An absolutely untouched and genuine sammelband compiled in the Philippines, housed in its contemporary vellum binding, containing 9 works, most are printed in the Philippines, one in Mexico, and the rest in Spain. 1. Solá, Magino, S. J. Memorial y Carta del Padre Magino Sola de la Compañía de Jesus, por la Provincia de Philipinas. 1652. [Mexico?]. First edition of a letter on contemporary conditions in the Philippines, printed in Mexico; 2. Gómez de Espinosa, Salvador. Dictamen… sobre la Translación del Puerto de Cavite al de Lampon. [1656]. Manila. Extraordinarily rare Philippine imprint, regarding the transfer of the Port of Cavite to Lampon; 3. Gómez de Espinosa, Salvador. Discurso Militar. Fundase la Jurisdición, y Facultad, que los Señores Governadores, y Capitanes Generales de estas Yslas Philipinas, y Malucas gozan. Printed on Asian paper. [1654]. [Manila]; [Probably the only known copy] 4. Gómez de Espinosa. Sobre tomar resolución en las novedades, que a introducido Cachil Zaide Rey de Tidore, auxiliando a los reveldes del Rey de Terrenate, aliado, y clientulo de los Estados de Holanda, y a los Amboinados reveldes. N.d. [c.1654?]. N.p. [Manila?]. Printed on Asian paper. Extremely rare and important, we couldn’t trace a single copy owned institutionally; the King of Tidore was one of the main allies of the Spanish in the Pacific, almost half way between the Philippines and Australia, between Indonesia and Papua, the island had a strategic location to fight off the Dutch pirates and maintain hegemony around the Philippines; 5. Gómez de Espinosa, Salvador. Memorial, o Discurso Informativo, Histórico, Jurídico, y Político de la Real Audiencia en las Islas Philipinas, y grande Archipiélago de la China. 1655. Manila. Colegio de la Compañia de Jesús. Simon Pinpin. Printed on Asian paper.

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50- Rare engraving made in Manila

[Philippines engraving] [Suarez, Francisco]. Philipo V. Rey De Las Espanas Emperador De Las Yndias. 1738. Manila. Francisco Suarez. 3,500 $ Portrait of Phillip V engraved by Francisco Suarez, a native Filipino-one of the first examples of an indigenous printed work in the Philippines. This engraved portrait shows an imperious Phillip V mid-way through his second reign. It was made by Francisco Suarez, one of the most famous of the indigenous artists of the Philippines in the 18th century. The present engraving is one of the earliest examples of printed art by a native of the Philippines. The oval portrait of Phillip V shows him in the typical dress of a man of his day: linen shirt with a flowing cravat, overcoat with layered collar and epaulettes, full wig, and flowing, feathered tricorn. Below, a ship, perhaps one of the galleons of the Manila-Acapulco silver trade, in full sail traverses a choppy sea.

51- The origin of American Indians; exceptionally rare copy, including the Adiciones, almost never present, and annotated by a contemporary reader

Rocha, Diego Andres. Tratado unico, y singular del origen de los Indios Occidentales del Piru, Mexico, Santa Fe, y Chile. 1681. Lima. Manuel de los Olivos, Joseph de Contreras. 19th century quarter red morocco. 20,000 $ First edition, Rocha’s Tratado is a remarkably rare and interesting book on the origin of American Indians, it is one of the few colonial books printed in Lima to deal with the anthropology of Native Americans; this is an exceptional copy with the never-present appendix: “Adiciones a los capitulos del origen de los Indios”, which is not mentioned by Medina or Palau, and which almost no institutional copy preserves. The work is dedicated to the origin of American natives and speculates on their Hebrew -in light of their physical resemblance, gestures, bodies, noses, pronunciation- or Iberian ancestry, with differences between Mexican and Peruvian Indians. The

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“Copia de carta” consists of a letter describing the sighting of the 1680 comet - possibly Halley’s-, and is illustrated with two woodcuts.

52- Unique album of Natural History made in Spain, a remarkable example of colour printing in 18th century Spain

Rubio, Jose. [Pajaros, flores, mariposas e insectos del R[ea]l Gabinete de Historia Natural de Madrid, grabados e iluminados por Jose Rubio] Splendid unknown Spanish album of colour engravings of flowers, birds, butterflies, insects and sea shells. [c.1786]. [Madrid]. 29 plates. Contemporary calf. 70,000 $ The only known example of this superb Spanish set of engravings, focused mostly on American birds and plants; a wonderful find, which provides much research potential, and likely the only opportunity to obtain the magnificent plates for a projected -but unfinished- natural history plate-book. We have been unable to trace another copy of even a single one of these plates by Rubio in OCLC. Rubio worked directly from nature using as models for his flowers the American plants at the Botanical garden of Madrid, whilst the birds, insects and shells, from exhibits in the Real Gabinete de Historia Natural. Rubio demonstrated in the Botanical garden the process of printing of the Lila flower, present in our album, which took him 5 minutes (“Diario curioso, erudito, economico y commercial”, 1787).

This unique album is a major contribution to the history of 18th century colour printing in Spain and an important testament to the skill and invention of a hitherto almost forgotten engraver. Rubio belongs to the category of engravers of the Spanish Enlightenment who are little known because hardly any of their work survived. Colour printing was very rare in 18th century Spain, and Rubio’s engravings of natural subjects are virtually unique.

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53- Influential early chronicle of Colombia and Venezuela

Simon, Pedro (Fr.). Primera Parte De las Noticias historiales de las Conquistas de Tierra Firme en las Indias Occidentales. 1627. Cuenca. Domingo de la Iglesia. Elegant 20th century mottled calf with arms on sides. 12,000 $ First edition, including the beautiful engraved title, not always present. Important history of the Provinces of current Colombia and Venezuela, one of the earliest ever published focused on that region. Simon was well-informed on the region and the modern expeditions and events, having arrived there in 1604 to teach, he accompanied Juan de Borja y Armendia, President of the Real Audiencia de Santa Fe de Bogota, in a campaign of pacification of the Pijao people between 1605 and 1615. The book contains details on the native population, history, customs, natural history, etc.), and is one of our most genuine sources of information of Colombia and Venezuela.

54- Remarkable depiction of the Spanish Armed Forces under Charles III

[Spanish military forces drawing] [Charles III, King of Spain]. Real plan del exercito de S. M. Co. Carlos Tercero en l'año de M.DCC.LXVIII. Manuscript schema of the armed forces of Charles III. 1768. Madrid. Broadside, ink and watercolour on paper, laid onto canvas. 35,000 $ A unique and attractive watercolour broadside depiction of the military and maritime armed forces of Spain in full pomp and splendor, representing the sweeping changes introduced under the leadership of Charles III of Spain, a reforming ruler produce of the Spanish Enlightment, and partially due to the defeat in Havana in 1762. The broadside lists each of the regiments of the Spanish army, both infantry and cavalry, and includes illustrations for each of their respective uniforms. A smaller section, framed on both sides by an illustration of a ship of the line, lists the ships of the line, packet boats, frigates, gunboats, galleasses, bomb ketches and xebecs in Charles III’s navy as well as provides a

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summary of Charles’ military forces. By 1768, as shown here, any damage wrought by Spain's participation in the Seven Years' War had been repaired; the present manuscript schema represents a well-ordered army and navy.

55- Spanish observation of an Eclipse by a famous explorer, on the last voyage of the Indies Fleet from Mexico, bound in contemporary red morocco with arms

Ulloa, Antonio de. El eclipse de sol con el anillo refractario de sus rayos, la luz de este astro, vista del traves del cuerpo de la luna, o antorcha solar en su disco. 1779. Madrid. Antonio Sancha. Contemporary red morocco, supralibros with arms of the King of Spain on boards. 8,000 $ First edition, a magnificent copy bound in contemporary red morocco with arms, containing Ulloa’s observation of the Solar Eclipse during the last fleet of the Indies, sailing from Mexico towards Spain. This work aimed to improve the geographical knowledge of the longitude of Cape San Vicente. Illustrated with two folding plates of the Eclipse. The commission of commanding the last fleet of the Indies fell on Spain’s foremost naval officer, a remarkable explorer, astronomer, scientist and first Spanish Governor of Louisiana. Institutionally we locate 3 copies in the United States.

56- “The first great original medical book in Spanish” (Morton), a superbly illustrated work, perhaps by a pupil of Michelangelo

Valverde de Hamusco, Juan. Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano. 1556. Rome. Antonio Blado Impressor de su Santidad. Fine 18th century red morocco probably by Spanish binder and printer Antonio Sancha. 40,000 $ Rare first edition of the most significant contribution to anatomy in Spain in the 16th century, and the earliest – along with the less influential Montserrat de la Montana- book published in Spanish to follow Vesalian teachings; a wonderfully illustrated work, containing 42 full-page plates showing the dissected human body. The influence of Valverde’s work was considerable, not only for the

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Spanish-speaking audience, but also Italian, this text being shorter, less academic and more direct (Cf. Roberts and Tomlinson).

“Occasionally, however, Valverde corrected Vesalius’ images... One of Valverde’s most striking original plates is that of a muscle figure holding his own skin in one hand and a knife in the other, which has been likened to Michelangelo’s Saint Bartholomew in the Last Judgment section of the Sistine Chapel” (National Library of Medicine). “The first great original medical book in Spanish... The plates were engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet probably after Gaspar Becerra, a pupil of Michelangelo. The book contains numerous revisions to Vesalius and other discoveries by Valverde” (Morton).

57- Exceptional manuscript history of Mexico by Zurita, critical of Spanish treatment of the native population, commented by Boturini

Zurita, Alonso; Boturini, Lorenzo. Breve, y Sumaria Relacion de los Señores, y maneras, y diferencias, que havia à ellos en la Nueva España… y de sus Leyes, usos, y costumbres. [c. 1746]. [Mexico]. Contemporary vellum. 24,000 $ Significant manuscript on the history of México, one of the earliest and most reliable sources on the first steps in the colonization of Mexico, critical of the treatment of the native population, written by a defender of the natives; this is an annotated copy by the historian Boturini, author of the Idea de una nueva historia de la America Septentrional (1746), in which this book is mentioned, “It contains a catalogue of a rich collection of books, MSS, and maps, relating to the early history of Mexico, which Boturini made during his travels... and which, unfortunately, is now lost” (Sabin).

‘Zorita’s works contain a vast amount of valuable information on ancient and colonial Mexico… Zorita defended Indian rights, condemned Spanish cruelties and the countless crimes he had personally seen’ (Vigil, Alonso de Zorita).

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