Rare Americana A selection for the New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2015 - List 2 - HS RARE BOOKS & MAPS HS RARE BOOKS SAN MARTIN DE TOURS 3190, CAPITAL FEDERAL CP 1425 ARGENTINA (+54) 911 5512 7770 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.hsrarebooks.com ALL ITEMS ARE GUARANTEED COMPLETE AND IN GOOD CONDITION UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. RETURNS ARE ACCEPTED WITHIN 7 DAYS OF RECEIPT. Index: Argentina 1 – 8 – 10 – 14 – 17 – 21 – 23 – 24 Brazil 3 – 10 – 11 – 14 – 18 – 19 – 24 Chile 7 – 9 – 13 – 14 – 16 Colombia 2 – 5 Jesuitica 7 – 8 – 9 – 11 – 12 – 15 General Americana 4 – 6 – 9 – 12 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 25 – 26 Mexico 6 – 12 – 15 – 25 Peru 7 – 20 – 26 Piracy, Navigation & Travels 20 – 21 – 22 – 24 – 25 Venezuela 27 1- The most important and substantial traveller´s guide to Buenos Aires, printed in Buenos Aires [Araujo, José Joaquín]. Guia de forasteros del Virreynato de Buenos Ayres para el año de 1803. 1803. Buenos Aires. Real Imprenta de los Niños. In 12vo (132 mm x 95 mm). 180 pp. + 1 ff. + 2 folding tables. Slightly later half calf over boards, spine flat lettered in gilt, rubbed. A very good copy with only scattered foxing; else a fine example of a usually harmed work for the use-purpose given to it. 4,500 $ First edition. An important description of Buenos Aires and a rare colonial printing, containing the most substantial array of information on the River Plate Viceroyalty. Furlong, who dedicated 4 pages to it in his Historia y bibliografía de las primeras imprentas rioplatenses, emphasizes its wealth of historical information and detail provided for the foreigners and locals, on the reality –social, cultural, infrastructure, and such- of the region. Araujo (1762 – 1835) was a Spanish administrative officer; he helped Dean Funes write his landmark Ensayo histórico. Although the authorship of the guide is not mentioned in the title, on page 46 he gives himself as the compiler. Provenance: ownership inscription on title “Andres Jose de Acosta”; ex libris to front pastedown. Palau, 354641 (attributing it to Diego de la Vega). Furlong, II, 675-679. 2- A beautifully engraved iconographic view of Bogota Austin, C. F. T. Bogota. N.d. [ca. 1840]. London. Engraved by Harris and published by Ackermann. Strong paper, finely colored. 4,800 $ With no doubt, amongst the best artistic insights of the Colombia’s Capital City a few years after becoming a Republic, possibly not at all that different from when it was Capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada. The view was created from a high point, allowing a comprehensive view of the city, thus a terrific piece for Colombian iconography. It illustrates in detail women washing clothes and carrying water, and men in local costumes at the front. The city, shown from the outskirts, stands formidable at the background, resting at the feet of the valley of Bogota. Bogota’s Cathedral is clearly an unequivocally distinguishable, and so are the bell towers standing besides it and the dome (structures all still standing). There is very little known about Austin, although another example of this lithograph is to be found at the “Coleccion Casa Museo Quinta de Bolivar”, (“Mapoteca Colombiana”, Uricoechea, 1860, nº 76). Needless to point out, lithographs of this magnitude on Bogota are scarcely found, thus truly a unique opportunity to acquire it. 3- Rare biography of one of the founders of Sao Paulo Beretario, Sebastian. Vita R.P. Iosephi Anchieta Societatis Iesu sacerdotis in Brasilia defuncti. 1617. Cologne. Johannes Kinchium. In 12mo (131 mm x 75 mm). 1 [blank] + 2 ff. + 427 [428] + 1 ff. + 1 [blank]. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum, ties as fragments, soiled. A fine copy, some leaves browned. 5,650 $ Although printed the same year as the Lyon edition, Leclerc states that this is the second edition. Father Anchieta (1534 – 1597) was a Canarian Jesuit Priest, and writer; after short studies in Portugal, and being only 19 years old, he was selected to travel to the Jesuit missions in Brazil, accompanying Duarte da Costa. Before making shore they shipwrecked, but still Anchieta was able to make shore at Sao Vicente; this allowed him to meet with the Tapuia Indians, the region´s native tribe. His labor for the conversion of the Indians into the Catholic faith –along with Nóbrega- , was crucial to the establishment of a colonial settlement. Anchieta is considered one of the founders of Sao Paulo (in 1554) and Rio de Janeiro (in 1565, after the defeat of the French settlers). The work is “based on the manuscript by Father Pedro Rodrigues, visiting Father to Angola and Brazil. This manuscript was unpublished at the time, but several copies were in circulation and served as the basis for all the biographies of Anchieta.” Borba de Moraes, 99. Rodriguez, 379. Leclerc, 1558. 4- Important Ejecutoria, addressed to Mexican Families, copiously illuminated [Carta Ejecutoria]. Don Juan Antonio de Hozes Sarmiento Rey de Armas, y Coronista de todos los Reynos… del Gran Rey Don Filip Quinto el Animoso. [ca. 1789]. In folio (302 mm x 200 mm). 140 ff. Contemporary Mexican[?] calf, spine flat, finely tooled, lower compartment of spine restored, some rubbing. Scattered foxing, generally fine. 7,000 $ An excellent example of an American Carta de Ejecutoria, or nobility grant; made out to the Berdugo, Davila, and Haro families, all closely related to Mexico´s colonial history. The illumination comprehends a full- page coat of arms on vellum, painted in red, blue and gold, and four smaller coats of arms (a rampant lion for Berdugo, two wolfs for Haro, twolions standing on a tower for Torre, and 13 golden spots over the shield, signifying the 13 heads of decapitated Moors for Davila), often a quarter page, each for one last name: Berdugo, Haro, Torre, and Davila. All these names are associated with high-ranking colonial civil officers and members of the clergy, amongst them Alonso Nuñez de Haro (1729 – 1800) Archbishop and Viceroy of Mexico, and another Archbishop of Mexico in the first half of the 17th century. The manuscript was probably confected in Mexico, the illumination being somewhat naïve, typical of 18th century colonial Mexican artists; however, the Rey de Armas is giving it, so it might be Spanish. Provenance: Bibliothec Dirk Stenger The binding is strictly contemporary, and features endpapers of Mexican origin –pasted on to boards-, although the volume has its endpapers renewed. 5- The state of colonial Colombia, prepared for the Archbishop-Viceroy [Colombia]. Estados de los cuerpos veteranos fixos y de milicias de infant.a caballeria y drag. correspondientes al nuevo plan propuesto por el Arzobispo Virrey de S. Fe en Carta reservada del 15 de Junio de este año, para la dotacion de aquella Capital, Plaza de Cartagena y otros Parages del Reyno de Tierra Firme. 1783. Santa Fe de Bogota. In folio (300 mm x 196 mm). 35 ff. + 3 [blanks]. Contemporary full calf, gilt fillets to boards, spine flat tooled in gilt with lettering piece; light rubbing. Excellent condition, remarkably clean, oxidation to one page a small rust hole; verso of ff. 34 with lead seal. 7,500 $ A handsome contemporary manuscript copy detailing the estate of New Granada’s colonial forces, during the reign of Antonio Cavallero y Gongora. As stated on the first ff., this is a copy of the brief provided by the Teniente General del Regimiento fijo of Cartagena; the copy is, however, authenticated, it is signed at the end by Antonio Cavallero y Gongora (1723 – 1796); Cavallero was a Spanish Archbishop and, from 1782 to 1789, Viceroy of New Granada. He gained fame for his participation and efforts to disarticulate the Comunero revolt in 1781, as well as for exercising the position of Viceroy simultaneously to being the Archbishop. The comunero revolt was based on the thought that the will of the King cannot be above the will of the common folk. This ideal will later lead to the fragmentation of the Spanish Empire in South America during the wars of Independence. It contains the state of the infantry division of Catagena and Santa Fe, the Batallón de Pardos Libres, Compañías de Pardos Libres, Compañías de Milicianos de Lorica, etc. The battalions of “pardos”, refer to the sons of Spanish and criollas. 6- An invaluable sourcebook for the history of New Mexico Davila Padilla, Agustín. Historia de la Fundacion y discurso de la provincia de Santiago de Mexico de la Orden de Predicadores por las vidas de sus varones insignes y casos notables de Nueva España. 1625. Brussels. Juan de Meerbeque. In folio (305 mm x 194 mm). 4 ff. + 654 + 3 ff. Contemporary limp vellum, front board lightened and a little stained, bookplate of William Mayer on front pasteboard, ties missing, upper joint cracked, spine lettered in ink. Title with seal erased, light browning to text as often, final leaf with mainly marginal loss of paper causing text loss repaired in manuscript facsimile, ff. 1 re-margined; overall entirely genuine, unrestored copy of a great rarity, of wide margins and generally fresh and clean. 19,500 $ Second edition. The first edition was published in Madrid in 1596, and a third edition appeared in 1634 under a new title “Varia historia de la Nueva España y Florida”. Davila´s is a main source of information on the Dominican’s work in New Mexico from 1526 to 1592, and the basis for future works on the region. It is rich in new information, namely drawn out of missionary´s experiences working in Mexico, namely amongst Indians, with notes on their activities, beliefs and mysticism, their conversion to Catholicism; thus, it’s contents are not to be found in previous relations.