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Americana–Beginnings Cortés to Lewis and Clark 1524–1814 CATALOGUE THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE Americana–Beginnings Cortés to Lewis and Clark 1524–1814 WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note In 1952 the great collector of Americana books, Thomas W. Streeter, created an exhibition drawn from his collection titled “Americana-Beginnings.” In it Streeter included some of the rarest and most significant works from his wonderful holdings, designed to show the geographical and historical range of material he had assembled. This catalogue, which we issue one-third of the way to 1000, is a tribute to that sense of historical continuity and the origins of American history expressed in print which makes Streeter a constant inspiration to us as a collector, bibliographer, and supporter of the great libraries of the United States. The catalogue is arranged chronologically, beginning with the Second Cortès Letter in which he announces the conquest of Mexico, and ending with a first edition of Lewis and Clark’s account of traversing the continent and “The Star Spangled Banner,” with key documents of the founding of the American republic and its federal government. Beyond that, let the objects speak for themselves. q A portion of our stock may be viewed at www.williamreesecompany.com. If you would like to receive e-mail notification when catalogues and lists are uploaded, please e-mail us at [email protected] or send us a fax, specifying whether you would like to receive the notifications in lieu of or in addition to paper catalogues. If you would prefer not to receive future catalogues and/or notifications, please let us know. Terms Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described and are con- sidered to be on approval. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance charges are billed to all nonprepaid domestic orders. Overseas orders are sent by air unless otherwise requested, with full postage charges billed at our discretion. Payment by check, wire transfer or bank draft is preferred, but may also be made by MasterCard or Visa. William Reese Company Phone: (203) 789-8081 409 Temple Street Fax: (203) 865-7653 New Haven, CT 06511 E-mail: [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com FRONT COVER: 16. [Bay Psalm Book]: The Psalms Hymns and Spritual Songs.... Boston. 1693. REAR COVER: 31. [American Revolution]: Bloody Butchery.... Salem, N.E. [1775]. The Conquest of Mexico: The Story Told in Cortés’ “Second Letter” 1. [Cortés, Hernando]: [Martyr, Peter]: PRAECLARA FERDINADI CORTESII DE NOVA MARIS OCEANI HYSPANIA NARRATIO .... [bound with:] Martyr, Peter: DE REBUS, ET INSULIS NOVITER REPERTIS.... [Nuremberg: Fridericus Peypus], 1524. [4],49,12 leaves. Lacks the map, supplied in expert facsimile, and blank leaf H8. Folio. 18th-century three-quarter vellum and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Bookplate of John Carter Brown on front pastedown, with deaccession stamp. Minor soiling in the text, else very good. The first Latin edition of Cortés’ second letter, after its original publication in Seville in 1522. The work was translated by Petrus Savorgnanus. This copy bears the portrait of Pope Clement VII on the verso of the fourth preliminary leaf, which is not found with all copies. Cortés’ second letter, dated Oct. 30, 1520, provides a vivid account of the people he encountered and fought en route to Tenochtitlan, painting a picture of an impressive empire centered around a great city. He relates his scrape with rival Velazquez and gives a wonderful description of the build- ings, institutions, and court at Tenochtitlan. It is here that Cortés provides a definitive name for the country, calling it “New Spain of the Ocean Sea.” This letter is also important for making reference to Cortés’ “lost” first letter, supposedly composed at Vera Cruz on July 10, 1520. Whether that letter was actually lost or suppressed by the Council of the Indies is unknown, but there is little doubt it once existed. The text is the first major announcement to the world of the discovery of major civilizations in the New World, and as such is a work of surpassing importance. As usual, the second letter is here bound with Peter Mar- tyr’s De Rebus, et Insulis Noviter Repertis..., which provides an account of the recently discovered islands of the West Indies and their inhabitants. It is often considered a substitute for the lost first Cortés letter. One of the most important early descriptions of Mexico and the first encounter of the West with the Aztec civiliza- tion, and a work of bedrock importance to the New World. No complete copy has appeared for sale since 1985. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 524/5. SABIN 16947. HARRISSE BAV 125. SANZ 933- 934. MEDINA BHA 70. CHURCH 53. WINSOR 2:404. BURDEN 5. VALLE 11. JCB GERMAN AMERICANA 524/4. STREETER SALE 190. STREETER, AMERICANA BEGINNINGS 7. $40,000. Two Eyewitness Accounts of the Conquest of Peru 2. Xerez, Francisco de: LIBRO PRIMO DE LA CONQVISTA DEL PERV & PROUINCIA DEL CUZCO DE LE INDIE OCCIDEN- TALI. [Colophon: Vinegia (i.e. Venice): Stampato per Stephano da Sabio, 1535]. [62] leaves. Small quarto. 20th-century boards covered with a stone- pattern marbled paper. Old auction description on front pastedown, collec- tor’s bookplate on front free endpaper, bookseller’s very small stamp on rear pastedown. Light discoloration to margins of first leaf and last leaf, with a few small holes from insect damage (silverfish?) in blank area. Very good. As one of the “Men of Cajamarca,” Francisco de Xerez holds a very special place among writers on the earliest period of Spanish contact with the Inca of Peru. He was there from day one, a member of the very small band of men who left Panama with Pizarro and Almagro to seek fame and fortune in South America. At Caja- marca he participated in the taking of the Inca leader, Atahualpa, the slaughter of his army, and the sharing of the ransom demanded of the Inca nation for the return of their leader. By training a notary public and practiced writer, he was by choice Pizarro’s secretary/confidant, the two having been close since at least 1524, when they met in Panama; and when in 1534 he returned to Spain, he took with him his share of the wealth of Atahualpa, a broken leg, and a tale to tell that was significant, stirring, and in fact tellable by no other man. He conceived of his book as being at once a socially and politically useful celebration of Pizarro’s deeds and his own, a celebration of the glory of Spain as that was expressing itself in a remote and wondrous New World, and as a true entertainment cast in the tradition of the romance of chivalry; not surprisingly, it was a blockbuster. Xerez’s eyewitness account of the conquest of Peru was originally published in Spain in 1534 in Spanish as Verdadera Relación de la Conquista del Peru y Provincia del Cuzco Llamada la Nueva Castilla. Demand for news of the new, “exotic” kingdom of Peru, which had only been conquered in 1532, was found to be keen not only in Spain but all across Europe, leading to this rapid translation into Italian. Appended to Xerez’s account (fols. [43v] to [55r]) is a translation of Miguel de Estete’s account of the journey of Pizarro’s army from Cajamarca to Pachacamac and then to Jauja. Estete, too, was present at Cajamarca and is said to have been the first Spaniard to lay hands on Atahualpa. Both of these first translations into Italian are from the pen of Domingo de Gaztelu (secretary of Don Lope de Soria, Charles V’s ambassador to Venice) and are taken from the second edition of the Spanish-language original. The text is printed in roman type and has a large heraldic woodcut device on the tittlepage and a xylographic printer’s device on the verso of the last leaf. CHURCH 73. HARRISSE 200. SABIN 105721. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 535/21. HUTH 1628. $45,000. The First Book Devoted Solely to the Laws of the Americas 3. [Charles V]: [Spanish Law]: LEYES Y ORDENANÇAS NUEUA- ME[N]TE HECHAS POR SU MAGESTAD PA[RA] LA GOUER- NACIO DE LAS INDIAS Y BUEN TRATAMIENTO Y CONSE- RUACIO DE LOS INDIOS; QUE SE HAN DE GUARDAR EN EL CONSEJO Y AUDIE[N]CIAS REALES Q[UE] EN ELLAS RES- IDEN; Y POR TODOS LOS OTROS GOUERNADORES JUEZES Y PERSONAS PARTICULARES DELLAS. Alcala de Henares: Joan de Brocar, 1543. [26]pp. Folio. Brown morocco in antique style, boards ornately tooled in blind, spine gilt with raised bands, edges sprinkled red. Title-leaf and two leaves with repaired paper loss, not affecting text or images. Trimmed contemporary manuscript annotations. Minor dampstaining, otherwise a very good copy. In a marbled slipcase. The first book to deal solely with laws of the Americas, containing proclamations of Spanish king Charles V regarding the treatment of Indians and the land claims of the Conquistadores in Spanish American colonial possessions. The monarch issued these orders primar- ily on the advice of Bartolomé de las Casas, who urged Charles to ensure better treatment of the native popu- lations in the Indies and to end the cruel practices of the Conquest. In his biography of Las Casas, Lewis Hanke writes: In 1514 he experienced a radical change of heart, came to feel that the Indians had been unjustly treated by his countrymen, and determined to dedicate the re- mainder of his days to their defense. He then became the renowned champion of the Indians, and for half a century was one of the dominating figures of the most exciting and glorious period Spain has ever known.
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