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ALCARAZ Y CASTRO, Isidoro. Breve instruccion del methodo, y practica de los quatro juicios criminales por el contrabando de reales rentas: primero de aprehension real en el fraude de tabacos, y demás generos estancados: segundo sin real aprehension, y con reos de presente por la saca de oro, plata, y demas efectos prohibidos extraher del reyno: tercero por denuncia del fraude contra los reales derechos de aduana; y quarto en rebeldia por el fraude contra los reales derechos de millones ... Madrid: en la Imprenta de Andrès Ramirez, se hallarà en la Librería de Pedro Tejero, 1765. 4to. [14], 118p. Contemporary limp vellum, upper cover partly loose and first three leaves loose; very slight marginal dampstains affecting a few leaves, otherwise a clean copy. A rare economic and legal text dealing with royal monopolies and the penalties against smuggling and other evasions of customs and excise. The first section is concerned with illegal trade in tobacco. The author is described on the title page as "Abogado Fiscàl de Reales Rentas Provinciales en la Ciudad de Cartagena". Not in Palau; not in Arents Collection Catalogue; not in Kress Catalogue; not in Whitehead. NUC cites only the Los Angeles County Law Library copy. Book # 18/049. £300 ANON. Los caxoncitos de la almohadilla de Anita, ó sea el libro del tocador. Dedicao á las señoritas de su edad por el Bachiller ***. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1804. 8vo. [2], x, '112' [i.e. 212]p. Armorial bookplate of C.R. Scott. Contemporary calf, a little worn. Described by Palau as a work containing 'varios estudios sobre la mujer, con poésias intercaladas.' Palau 50659; not in J. Gay, Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes, au mariage. No copy in BLC; NUC reports 3 copies under title. Book # 8/012. £40 ANON. Manual para socorrer a los moribundos en su último trance. Sacado de los mas selectos autores que tratan esta materia. México: impreso en las Escalerillas, por Agustín Guiol, 1835. 24mo. 48p. Dark blue cloth, gilt. A little pocket manual of prayers for the dying and the administration of the last rites. Not found in Palau. Not in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/055. £75 ANON. Matraca en romance, coplas en verso, el abate que voy, el coco de las Sardinas, y espantajo de los Pezes. A la derrota de la armada inglesa. [Sevilla? c.1700-10.] 4to. [4]p. Drop title. Text in two columns per page. Modern half morocco. A satirical ballad of 292 lines concerning the activity of the Anglo-Dutch fleet off the Spanish coast in the first years of the 18th century - the "bogeyman of the sardines and the scarer of the fishes." Palau 158366 "Sevilla, 1700-10". Not found in Escudero or in Almirante. Not in Whitehead. Maggs Cat. 508 (1928) Bibliotheca nautica, pt.1, 202. No copy located in NUC. Book # 18/061. £150 ANON. Metrica panegirica descripción, a las católicas, magnanimas, y festivas demonstraciones, que la muy noble, y devota Hermandad de el Santissimo Sacramento, sita en el Templo del señor S. Clemente, Sagrario de la Iglesia Metropolitana, y Patriarcal de Sevilla hizo en obsequio de gracias a el todo poderoso Dios, por la victoria, que las católicas, cesareas, y christianas armas del señor Emperador, Rey de Polonia, y Gran Duque de Lorena consiguieron contra la casa otomana, sobre el cerco de Viena, este año de 1683 ... Sevilla: por Juan Francisco de Blas, 1684. 4to. [16], 24p. Engraved coat of arms of Luis de Ayllon y Quadros, the dedicatee, on *2. Some leaves cropped, partially affecting some page numbers and top lines of 6 pages slightly shaved. Modern paper boards, scuffed at corners. In 1683 (for the second time in its history) Vienna was besieged by a Turkish army. On 12 September the Ottoman forces of some 300,000 men were defeated and the city rescued by a combined Austrian-German-Polish force. The siege and Hapsburg victory were events of far-reaching interest, marked by festivities, by medallists and engravers, and by the publication throughout Europe of numerous contemporary accounts and by commemorative verses and drama. Palau 167136. Not in Escudero. Not in Alenda y Mira. H. Kábdebo, Bibliographie zur Geschichte der beiden Türkenbelagerungen Wiens 1529 und 1683, II, 297. No copies recorded in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/060. £180 ARCHICOFRADÍA DE LA SS. RESURRECIÓN DE CHRISTO NUESTRO REDENTOR, Rome. Estatutos de la Archicofradía, de la SS. Resurreción de Christo Nuestro Redentor, de la nación española de Roma. Roma: por Estevan Paulino, 1603. 4to. 67, [3]p. Engraving of Resurrection on title page; woodcut initials. A few pages discoloured; unobtrusive ecclesiastical library stamp on title. Contemporary limp vellum. This confraternity at Rome was founded in 1579 by the Spanish ambassador, Juan de Zúñiga, partly with the aim of attending to the needs of Spanish residents and pilgrims in the city. The statutes of 1603 were modified in 1729 and Addiciones published at Rome in 1730. The statutes include sections on visits to hospitals and prisons and on the administration of the confraternity's archives. A list of names of its principal officers is also provided. The confraternity was suppressed in 1756. Palau 83552. Toda y Guëll 1611. Cat. Col. (Siglo XVII), 931. Not in Penney. No copy traced in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/003. £175 ARDEVINES ISLA, Salvador. Fabrica universal y admirable de la composicion del mundo mayor. Madrid: por Diego Flamenco, 1621. 4to. [16], '226' [i.e. 236] ff. Woodcut portrait on fol. [16] verso. Small marginal tears on ff. 25 & 230; marginal worming in final 12 leaves affecting an occasional letter; some dampstaining. Mottled calf, worn, with crude attempt at gilding on spine. This work, whose author is described on the title page as 'medico', is divided into five parts. Part 1 is a treatise on God and on false gods; part 2 deals with angels; part 3 is on the Creation; part 4 mainly deals with the stars and the planets; part 5 is on animals. An extensive 'Catalogo de los autores que van alegados en este presente volumen' includes the names: Alcoran de Mahoma, Alberto Magno, Bacon, Geronimo Muñoz Matematico, George Mercator, Juan de Sacrobosco, Marco Polo Veneto, Purbachio, Raimundo Lul, Vergilio Polidoro. Though described as 'primera parte' in the Tabla, no more was published. Palau 15776; Pérez Pastor 1718; Cat. Col. Siglo XVII, no.942; Goldsmith A308. Not in Penney. NUC reports only the University of Wisconsin copy. Book # 18/085. £200 ARFE Y VILLAFAÑE, Juan de. Varia commensuración para la escultura y arquitectura ... Sexta impresión. Añadido por Don Pedro Enguera ... el relox vertical, con declinación, y sin ella: el relox oriental, y occidental, y en todos puestos los signos. Madrid: en la Imprenta de Miguel Escribano; se hallará en la librería de Josef Mathias Escribano, 1773. Fol. [4], 298p. With numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Modern quarter vellum, marbled boards. First published at Seville in 1585, with a second edition appearing at Madrid in 1675, followed by four editions in the 18th century. This work is divided into four books: Book I on geometry, with an appendix on sundials added by Pedro de Enguera, Book II on the proportions of the human body and its parts, Book III on the proportions of the bodies of animals, Book IV on the five orders of architecture and on church fittings. The woodcuts, taken from the original blocks, include spirited representations of domestic and wild animals (e.g. a rhinoceros, elephant and dromedary), illustrations of human anatomy and proportion as well as architectural details. Palau 16058. Fowler 29. Bonet Correa 292. Book # 8/004. £500 BRETÓN DE LOS HERREROS, Manuel. El templo de la gloria, drama alegórico, escrito por disposición del Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Madrid, para formar parte de los festejos con que esta heróica villa ha acordado celebrar la jura de la excelsa Princesa Doña María Isabel Luisa, hija primogénita y legítima heredera de los Reyes NN. SS. D. Fernando 7o. y Doña María Cristína de Borbon ... Madrid: 1833. 8vo. 29p. Contemporary brown morocco, blind-tooled and gilt. All edges gilt. Front board loose. Bretón de los Herreros, playwright and poet, became secretary to the Real Academia Española (to which he was elected as a member in 1837) and from 1847 was Director of the National Library. He wrote over 200 dramatic works of which some 50 were original and the rest translations and adaptations. This play was written to celebrate the declaration of Isabella II as heir to the Spanish throne on 20 June 1833 (she was then aged just three and her mother acted as regent up to 1843). Palau 35005. No copy in BLC. Book # 8/009. £40 CHARLES III, King of Spain. Real cédula de erección de la Compañía de Filipinas de 10 de marzo de 1785. Madrid: por D. Joachin Ibarra, [1785]. Fol. [2], 57p. New marbled boards, morocco spine. New end-papers. This decree which established the Compañia de Filipinas ended colonial Mexico's monopoly of the trade between Spain and the Philippines. For two hundred years all Philippine goods had to be transported to Spain via Acapulco. The decree contains 100 articles devoted to the administration, development and export policy of the Compañia de Filipinas, which was modelled on the British East India Company. There was another Madrid edition of 1785 published by Pedro Marin and also Barcelona and Cádiz editions of the same year. Palau 249957; Whitehead S662; Medina, Biblioteca española de las islas filipinas, 538; Ensayo de bibliografía marítima española, 1341; Bancroft, p.576. Book # 18/004. £350 CHARLES IV, King of Spain. Real cedula de S.M. por la que se manda guardar la instrucción en ella inserta, formada por el Tribunal de la Real Junta de Represalias para gobierno de la justicias del reyno en la expedición de las causas de los seqüestros de bienes ocupados á los franceses expulsos. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1793. Fol. 21p. Modern marbled paper wrappers. On the sequestration of French property. Palau 250316. Spain and Spanish America in the libraries of the University of California: a catalogue of books, II: the Bancroft Library (1930), p.596. Book # 18/151. £30 CHARNAY, Désiré. Les anciennes villes du Nouveau Monde: voyages d'explorations au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale par Désiré Charnay, 1857-1882. Ouvrage contenant 214 gravures et 19 cartes ou plans. Paris: Hachette, 1885. Large fol. xii, 469, [2]p. Light discolouration on a few pages, but on the whole the contents are very good. Red cloth, both covers and spine sumptuously decorated in gilt with designs of Mexican antiquities; all edges gilt; some light wear at joints and at head and foot of spine; marbled end-papers. Charnay set out for Mexico in 1857 with the ambition to discover Tenochtitlán, the ancient capital of the Aztecs. Having travelled in Chiapas and Oaxaca, and explored the slopes of Popocatepetl, he returned to Paris where, in 1863, he published Cités et ruines américaines, an atlas of plates with text by Viollet-le-Duc, which was followed, in 1862, by Le Mexique. In 1864 he was again in Mexico with the French army, and in 1875 he began an extensive tour of Latin America - Brazil, Argentina, Chile - a journey which also took him to Java and Australia. Financed by an American of French origin, P. Lorillard, Charnay returned to Mexico to undertake archaeological excavations. He investigated Anáhuac, Teotihuacán in Yucután, and on the plateau of Tenenepanco (at 4,000 m. altitude) excavated a cemetery for children which yielded a wealth of terra cotta and stone objects. Further explorations took place at the Toltec city of Tabasco; and in the region inhabited by the Lacandon people he discovered in the forest a lost city which he named after his benefactor, Lorillard. Charnay's accounts of his voyages were published with great success in Le tour du monde, and also in this work, Les anciennes villes du Nouveau Monde. Part of Charnay's archaeological and other collections remained in Mexico, the rest were to form one of the founding collections of the Musée du Trocadéro in Paris. Book # 18/099. £250 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Los diez y seis libros de las Epistolas, o cartas de Marco Tulio Ciceron, vulgarmente llamadas Familiares. Traducidas de lengua latina en castellana, por el doctor Pedro Simón Abril ... Pamplona: por Joachin Joseph Martinez, [1678]. 4to. [8], 440p. Small paper flaws in N8 and 2C1 affecting a few letters. Some pages browned. Volume rebound using old limp vellum covers, with new ties and end papers. Inscription on front cover: 'The Countess of Harrington, Royal Hospital 1808'. This complete translation of all sixteen books of Cicero's letters to his friends and acquaintances, Ad Familiares, was first published at Madrid in 1589. Pedro Simón Abril, a teacher of Greek and Latin for over twenty-five years at Zaragoza University, also produced translations of Aristotle's Politics and Logic, speeches by Aeschines and Demosthenes, Aesop's Fables, the Cratylus and Georgias of Plato, the plays of Terence, the Medea of Euripides and the Pluto of Aristophanes. These led to an enrichment of contemporary Spanish culture and to a revival of classical modes of thought and feeling. Palau 54445. Beardsley 111. Not in Cat. Col. (Siglo XVII). This edition not in Penney or in Goldsmith. NUC reports 1 copy only (UCLA Library). Book # 8/014. £175 COLUTHUS (COLLUTHUS). Coluthi Lycopolitae Thebani De raptu Helenae libellus. Ex graecis in latina carmina conversus, versionibus, variantibus, & animadversionibus illustratus. Opera, et studio Philippi Scio a Sancto Michaele. Matriti: ex typographia Antonii Marin, 1770. 4to. [24], 174, [1]p. Contemporary calf; a fine copy. The Rape of Helen is the only extant poem of Coluthus, Greek epic poet from Lycopolis in Egypt (fl. c.500 A.D.). Written in imitation of Homer and Nonnus, the poem tells the story of Paris and Helen from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis down to the elopement and arrival in Troy. This edition contains the Greek text, Latin version by Phelipe Scio de San Miguel, Bishop of Segovia, and a Spanish version by Ignacio García de San Antonio. Palau 57424. No copy recorded in NUC (whose earliest Spanish translation is Paris, 1823). Whitehead C761. Book # 18/048. £280 COMELLA Y VILLAMITJANA, Luciano Francisco. Comedia nueva. Los amores del Conde de Comingues. Drama en cinco actos. [Barcelona:] Colophon: En la misma librería de Estivill se hallarán de venta la segunda y tercera parte de dicha historia y otras comedias varias [c. 1820]. 4to. 24p. Caption title. Modern marbled paper wrappers. A comedia suelta. Fashionable 18th-century dramatist of the 'irregular' school, Comella opposed the neo-classical school of playwrights as represented by Moratín. Comella experimented with several themes and genres: the enlightened despot, the arranged marriage, comédie larmoyante, the sainete. He was much given to incorporating frequent scene changes and spectacular effects in his dramas, often accompanying them with music. Palau 58100. Cf.Bainton 49 for a different edition. No edition in Bergman & Szmuk. Book # 8/017. £50 COMINES, Philippe de. Las memorias ... de los hechos y empresas de Luis undecimo y Carlos octavo reyes de Francia. Traducidas de frances con escolios proprios por Don Juan Vitrián. Amberes, Juan Meursio, 1643. Fol. 2 vols in 1. Vol.1: [28], 429, [21]p. Vol.2: [12], 477, [34]p. Title page of vol.1 is engraved. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, newly rebacked with most of original spine put back, corners repaired; a little marginal worming in gathering C-F of vol.1 affecting an occasional letter on a few leaves. Comines' Memoirs, composed at the end of the 15th century, were intended for the instruction of princes and statesmen. A man of lucid intelligence, deeply interested in the art and science of politics, Comines found in Louis XI of France a kindred spirit. He shows himself a statesman of almost modern quality, with a poor opinion of the old feudal chivalry and a view of war as a great evil. The Memoirs were translated into many languages, including Thomas Danett's English version of 1596. This is the first Spanish translation. Palau 58239. Peeters-Fontainas 266. Cat. Col. (siglo XVII), 4074. Penney p.141. Jones 479. Goldsmith C632. Book # 8/018. £320 CÓRDOBA Y CASTRO, Francisco de. Festivos cultos celebres aclamaciones que la siempre triumphante Roma dio a la bienaventurada Rosa de S. María Virgen de Lima en su solemne beatificación ... Roma: por Nicolás Ángel Tinas, 1668. 4to. [4], 48p. Engraved emblematic frontispiece signed: 'B. Thiboust Scul.' Some leaves browned and some damp-staining in first section. Contemporary limp vellum binding, repaired. Born in Lima in 1586, the daughter of a conquistador, St. Rose modelled her life on St. Catherine of Siena. At the age of 20 she joined the Third Order of St. Dominic and lived in a hermitage built in the garden of the family home. Here she set up an infirmary for the sick and destitute. Held in such high esteem by the citizens of Lima, her funeral in 1617 had to be postponed for several days because of the huge crowds. The cause for her canonization was presented in Rome, July 1634. Clement IX decreed her beatification in 1668 and in 1671 she was canonized by Clement X and proclaimed patron of Peru, all of America, the Indies, and the Philippines. Bound with: MARTÍNEZ, Nicolás, Oración panegírica de la B. Rosa de Santa María Virgen de Lima, Roma: por Nicol Ángel Tinas, 1668. 4to. 222p. [with hiatus between pp.116 & 121, but no obvious loss of text]. Page 37: 'Academia de laudibus B. Rosae virginis peruanae ... authore Carolo Bovio.' Page 65: 'Vita Beatae Rosae a S. María ... digesta in actiones quibus epigrammata respondent. Autore Ignatio Buompiano.' Pages 121-144: Verses in Latin and Italian by various authors. Page 145: 'Componimenti varii in lode della Beata Rosa di Santa Maria Limana di D. Orazio Quaranta.' Some pages browned. Bound with: OLIVA, Giovanni Paolo, Sermone in lode della B. Rosa di S. María, Roma: per Nicol' Angelo Tinassi, 1668. 4to. 36p. Some pages heavily browned. Bound with: VERGARA, Antonio de, Oración panegírica que ... Antonio de Vergara ...dixo en el convento de S. María super Minervam el día 26. de agosto y primero en que celebrò la yglesia la fiesta annual de la B. Rosa de Sancta María, [Rome? Nicolás Ángel Tinas? 1668?] 4to. [24]p. Caption title. Item 1 (Córdoba y Castro): Palau 61916. Toda y Guëll 1344. Medina, BHA 1433. Sabin 1433. Penney p.149. NUC reports only the HSA copy. Goldsmith C667. Item 2 (Martinez): Palau 154562. Toda y Guëll 3122. De Backer-Sommervogel vol.5, col.634, no.1. Penney p.339. No copy in NUC. Item 3 (Oliva): Palau 200287; De Backer Sommervogel vol. 5, col. 1886, no.3; Penney p.391; NUC reports only the HSA copy. Item 4 (Vergara): Palau 360049. Toda y Guëll 5320. Penney p.593. No copy in NUC. Book # 8/021. £400 DANIEL, Gabriel. Viage d'el mundo de Des-Cartes, obra, que escribiò, y publicò en frances el P. Gabriel Daniel ... y publica, traducida en castellano, Don Juan Gregorio Araùjo. Salamanca: por Nicolas Joseph Villargordo, 1742. 4to. [8], 320p. Some browning throughout; small tear in 2R3, without loss. Contemporary vellum. In France, the Jesuits gave a cool reception to the philosophical work of their former pupil, René Descartes. Eventually they officially rejected Cartesianism and his works were placed on the Index librorum prohibitorum. This is a Spanish translation of a critique of Descartes by the Jesuit, Gabriel Daniel, originally published in Paris in 1690 as Voyage du monde de Descartes. The same author also wrote a reply to Pascal's Provinciales. Palau 68271. De Backer-Sommervogel, v.2, cols 1795-97. NUC records 2 copies (at Princeton and Duke University Libraries). No copy of this translation in BLC. Book # 8/024. £200 DÍAZ RENGIFO, Juan. Arte poetica española, con una fertilissima silva de consonantes comunes, propios, esdruxulos, y reflexos, y un divino estimulo del amor de Dios. Madrid: por la viuda de Alonso Martin, 1628. 4to. [12], 324, 40p. Some leaves rather browned; several marginal tears without serious loss of text; tear in centre of leaf K2 resulting in loss of one word. Contemporary limp vellum, a little loose. In this work on poetics, Rengifo borrowed the doctrines of Italian theorists such as Antonio da Tempo, adapting them to traditional Spanish metres. For Rengifo the doctrina (or utile) of Horace) is much more important than the deleite (or dulce of Horace). The Silva de consonantes, a rhyming dictionary, forms a substantial part of the work. The first edition was published at Salamanca in 1592; this is the third edition. Palau 72825; Goldsmith D78. Ward, p.161. Book # 18/086. £155 DOMENECH, Emmanuel. L'empire au Méxique et la candidature d'un prince bonaparte au trone méxicain. Paris: Dentu, 1862. 8vo. [4], 154, [1]p. Modern marbled boards, morocco-backed. New end-papers. Domenech, born in Lyon in 1826, was a missionary to Texas who became Chaplain of the French army in Mexico and Director of the Press for the Emperor Maximilian. Domenech had access to Maximilian's correspondence and made good use of it in volume 2 of his Histoire de Méxique. Juarez et Maximilien: correspondances inédites (1868). Included amongst Domenech's numerous travel accounts and works of contemporary history are his Journal d'un missionnaire au Texas et au Méxique, 1846-1852 (1857); Voyage pittoresque dans les grands déserts du Nouveau Monde (1862); Le Méxique tel qu'il est (1867). Domenech's reputation as a scholar suffered somewhat after he published Manuscrit pictographique américain, précédé d'une notice sur l'idéographie des Peaux-Rouges (1860) since this supposed Indian manuscript turned out to be spurious - the drawing-book of a German schoolboy. Palau 75068; Sabin 20546 (Paris, n.d.); G. Hernández Tapia, Ensayo de una bibliografía de la intervención europea en México en el siglo XIX (1861-1867), no.238. Book # 18/023. £125 [DUCRAY-DUMINIL, François Guillaume] Los dos Robinsones ó aventuras de Carlos y Fanny, dos niños ingleses, abandonados en un isla de América. Relación imitada del ingles, por D. Justo de la Barra. Tercera edición. Barcelona: en la Imprenta de Agustín Roca, 1815. 12mo. 2 vols. Mottled calf, gilt. First published in Paris in 1788 under the title Lolotte et Fanfan, ou Les aventures de deux enfans abandonnés dans une isle deserté. An abridged English translation, by Lucy Peacock, appeared in 1796: Ambrose and Eleanor; or The adventures of two children deserted on an uninhabited island (see J. St. John, The Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1476-1910, vol.2, p.877). Palau 76398. Cf. H. Ullrich, Robinson und Robinsonaden (1898) v.1, p.177. This edition not in NUC or BN Paris; no Spanish version in BL. Book # 18/051. £150 ECHEGARAY, José.El libro talonario, comedia en un acto y en verso. Madrid: Imprenta de José Rodriguez, 1874. 8vo. 47p. Inscription from the author on half title. A few pages very lightly browned. Echegaray was a mathematician and engineer by training who later became Minister of Finance and founded the Bank of Spain. His other life was that of playwright and he dominated the Spanish stage for thirty years from 1875, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904. El libro talonario, written under the anagram Jorge Hayaseca, was his first play, a drawing-room comedy in which a young wife ingeniously turns the tables on her unfaithful husband. This is the first edition; the play was presented for the first time at the Teatro de Apolo, Madrid, on 18 February 1874. Bound with ECHEGARAY, José: La esposa del vengador. Drama en tres actos y en verso. Madrid: Imprenta de José Rodriguez, 1874. 8vo. 88p. La esposa del vengador is one of some sixty plays which followed El libro talonario. It was first produced at the Teatro Español, Madrid, on 14 November 1874. This is the first edition. Item 1: Palau 78123 (2a ed. 1877). Item 2: Palau 78118 (6a ed. 1876). Book # 8/027. £40 ESPINEL, Vicente Martínez de. Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregon. Madrid: 1744. 4to. [8], 275p. Bookplate of Thomas Stewart Traill. 19th-century calf, somewhat delapidated. A novel of adventure and advice, often loosely termed 'picaresque' although the hero-narrator lacks the essential attributes of delinquency and deceit. There were five 17th-century editions (the first dated 1618); this is the only 18th-century edition. The work provided Le Sage with much of his material when writing Gil Blas. Palau 82591; Whitehead E81. J.L. Laurenti, Bibliografía de la literatura picaresca, 1529. Book # 18/093. £50 GALLEGOS Y CASTRO, Estevan José. Oracion funebre en las exequias con que se solemnizo el dia XXIII. de agosto de MDCCLXX. la translacion de los huesos del illmo. Señor D.D. Diego del Corro, dignísimo Arzobispo de Lima, á esta Santa Iglesia Catedral desde el Pueblo de San Gerónimo de Xauxa, donde falleció visitando la diocesi. Dixola el D.D. Estevan Joseph Gallegos. Lima: en la Imprenta de los Niños Huérfanos [1770]. 4to. [12], 30p. Vellum covers. Provides valuable biographical information on Diego del Corro, 15th archbishop of Lima. Corro was educated at Rome and a doctor of the University of Sigüenza. In 1752 he became bishop of Papayán and later, in 1758, was made archbishop of Lima. He died at Jauja in 1761 whilst on a pastoral visit to his diocese. This oration was delivered on the occasion of the transfer of his remains from Jauja to the Cathedral at Lima. Medina, Lima, 1309. Not in Palau. Not in BLC. NUC gives 2 locations: Yale & Duke U.L. Book # 18/013. £180 GARCÍA, Francisco.Vida, virtudes, y milagros de S. Ignacio de Loyola. Madrid: por Juan García Infanzon, 1685. 4to. [24], 651, [7]p. Engraving of St. Ignatius on p.1. 19th-century mottled calf. A life of the founder of the Society of Jesus by Francisco García, a member of the Society, whose writings include an account of the persecutions of the Jesuits in China, a life of St. Francis Xavier, and a life of Diego Luis de Sanvitores, the first apostle to the Islas Marianas. Palau 97965; De Backer Sommervogel v.3, col.1207-8, no.3. No copy recorded in NUC; earliest edition in BL is Madrid, 1722. Book # 18/089. £85 GREAT BRITAIN - Parliament. Papers presented to Parliament in 1809. London: printed by A. Strahan, 1809. 8vo. 4, 999, [21]p. Marbled boards, leather-backed (worn). Minor damp-staining on first three pages. An important collection of documents concerning the first year of the Peninsular War. The first 200 pages deal with British relations with Russia, France and the United States. The remaining 800 pages are entirely concerned with military affairs in Spain and Portugal. Documents printed include: Correspondence relative to the Russian ships in the Tagus, Instructions to the commanders of His Majesty's forces in Spain and Portugal in 1808, Requisitions made by the Juntas in Spain for supply of troops, Communications received from officers in Spain and Portugal in 1808, Accounts of provisions shipped for troops in Spain and Portugal, Correspondence between Castlereagh and Sir John Moore. Not in Palau. Alberich 916. Sabin 58460. Book # 8/035. £150 IRIARTE Y CISNEROS, Juan de. Obras sueltas de D. Juan de Yriarte, publicadas en obsequio de la literatura, a expensas de varios caballeros amantes del ingenio y del mérito. [Colophon: Madrid: en la Imprenta de D. Francisco Manuel de Mena] 1774. 4to. 2 vols. Vol.1: [52], 504p. Frontis. portrait of Iriarte. Vol.2: [4], 512, [1]p. Marbled boards (worn at corners and edges) calf-backed; bookplates removed; title label missing from vol.1. As a young student in Paris, Iriarte attended the classes of Voltaire - which was to have a profound influence on his subsequent career. On returning to his birthplace, the Canary Islands, he found himself bored and left for Madrid, where he lived under the protection of William Clarke, librarian to Philip V. He plunged into the literary life of the capital, writing criticism for the Diario de los literatos de España. He eventually became librarian of the Royal Library and official translator at the Ministry of State. His principal work as librarian was a catalogue of the Royal Library's Greek manuscripts. A member of the Real Academia Española from 1747, he contributed both to the Academy's Gramática and Diccionario. Iriarte was skilled at Latin verses, translated the poet Martial and composed a spirited poem on bullfighting in Madrid, Taurimachia matritensis (1725). A large collection of Iriarte's voluminous writings was published by subscription in this posthumous edition of 1769 (the full list of subscribers is printed at the beginning of vol.1). Palau 121116. Millares Carlo pp.256-7. Whitehead I92a. Ward p.294. Book # 8/040. £250 JOUTEL, Henri. Diario historico del último viaje que hizo M. De La Sale para descubrir el desembocadero y curso del Missicipi ... Escrito en idioma francés ... Traducido al español por ... José María Tornel. Nueva York: impreso por José Desnoues, 1831. 12mo. 156p. Pages heavily spotted throughout. Sir Thomas Phillipps' copy, with his shelf mark and initials 'MHC' (Middle Hill Catalogue). Paper boards, cloth-backed. An eye-witness account of La Salle's tragic last voyage compiled from the diary of one of his companions. The party embarked in 1684, ostensibly to establish a French base at the mouth of the Mississippi as headquarters for operations, but also to push as far into the region as possible in order to gain a foothold against the Spanish. The base was set up at Espiritu Santo Bay, in Texas, where La Salle's men spent two years making unsuccessful excursions into the surrounding territory. When promised reinforcements failed to appear, La Salle and his men determined to return to Canada via the Mississippi. However, one of the company assassinated La Salle when they reached the Trinity River (March 1687), and the company split up. Some of the survivors, including Joutel, pressed on, reaching Canada by way of the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers. Joutel's diary was first published at Paris in 1713 as Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. De La Sale fit dans le golfe de Méxique; an English translation appeared in 1714. The translator of this Spanish version is described on the title page as 'Ministro de Méjico de los Estados Unidos'. Palau 125175. Sabin 36761 ('This edition, though printed in New York, was put forth for the Mexican market'). This translation not in Church Catalog. NUC reports 3 copies in U.S.A. and 1 in Canada. No copy in BLC. Book # 8/041. £150 JUAN de los Ángeles. Diálogos de la conquista del espiritual y secreto Reyno de Dios, que segun el santo Evangelio està dentro de nosotros mismos. En ellos se trata de la vida interior y divina ... Madrid: por la biuda de P. Madrigal, 1595. 4to. [16], 416, [24]p. Small woodcut on title page. Woodcut arms of Albert, Archduke of Austria and Cardinal Archishop of Toledo on §3 verso. Woodcut initials. Title page skilfully repaired. Slight shaving of marginalia in two pages of Prologo al lector. Small library stamp on title. Old vellum covers, rebacked to match, new end papers. One of Spain's great 16th-century mystical writers, the Franciscan Juan de los Ángeles has been called by Menendez y Pelayo 'uno de los mas suaves y regalados prosistas castellanos'. His style is perhaps inferior only to that of Luis de León in De los nombres de Cristo. His Triumphos del amor de Dios (Medina del Campo, 1590) owed much to Plato's views on love, as well as to St. Bonaventure and Sabunde - it was later revised and abridged as Lucha espiritual y amorosa entre Dios y el alma (1600). The Diálogos de la conquista del espiritual y secreto reyno de Dios, of which this is the first edition, was much influenced by the Northern European mystics, especially by Ruysbroeck and Tauler. It takes the form of a series of dialogues between a religious named Deseoso and his spiritual adviser. A second edition was printed at Barcelona in 1597, and a third edition which came out at Madrid in 1608 was accompanied by a sequel, Manual de vida perfecta. - Ward p.308. Palau 12447. Cat. Col. (Siglo XVI) J835. Pérez Pastor 462. No edition in Adams or Penney. NUC reports 1 copy only - at Harvard. BLC has modern editions only. Book # 8/042. £1700 LINGUET, Simon Nicolas Henri, translator. Théâtre espagnol. Tome second. Paris: chez De Hansy, le jeune 1770. 12mo. [4], 497p. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine and corners worn. The rear paste-down has a (19th-century?) Russian library book label: Tsentral'naia Bibioteka Imperatorsnikh Teatrov. The second of a set of four volumes. This volume contains four Spanish plays in French translation, each with half title as follows:- Le viol puni, en espagnol, L'alcade de Zalamea; La cloison, en espagnol, El escondido y la tapada; Se défier des apparences, en espagnol, Nunca lo peor es cierto; La journée difficile, en espagnol, Los empeños de seis horas. The first three items are by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The fourth item, Los empeños de seis horas - wrongly ascribed to Calderón on the half title - is by Antonio Coello (1611-1652); Pepys thought it superior to 'Othello'. Book # 15/107. £60 LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo. Obras poéticas de Don Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, Ayudante Mayor de las Reales Guardias Españolas de Infantería, dedicadas en esta segunda edicción al mismo autor. Y añadidas de una tercera parte, y corregidas, y enmendadas. Pamplona: por Joseph Ezquerro, 1729. 4to. [8], 260p. Small hole in t.p. affecting one printer's ornament. Marginal tear in P1 (without loss of text). Paper flaws in T3 and T4 slightly affecting a few letters. Paper flaw in V1 affecting 4 words. Clean tears in 2A3 and 2D1. 2H2 and 2H3 shaved at foot with slight loss. Final few quires are a little dog-eared and have marginal damp-stains. Contemporary vellum (repaired and worn), remains of ties. Poet and soldier from Toledo, Lobo took part in the war of the Spanish Succession on the side of Philip V, but aroused that monarch's displeasure by his satire Exhortación politico-cristiana a la nación española, in which he bewailed the plight of Spain. He also was present at the siege of Lérida, which he celebrated in epic octavas reales, and in the recapture of Oran in 1732, which occasioned his Rasgo épico. Lobo also produced numerous festive verses, the most witty of which is a parody: 'Octavas festivas a la derrota de unos pasteles en el Palau' as well as a large corpus of sonnets, the best being a neo-classical composition on sculpture: 'A la estatua del silencio'. Lobo's works were first collected in Selva de las musas (Cadiz, 1711) and later in his Obras poéticas (Cadiz, 1724?). Some of his Poesías appear in vol.61 of the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles. - Ward p.334. Palau 139453. Cf. Whitehead L138 for a copy with same imprint but dated 1724. NUC reports only the Library of Congress copy of this edition. Book # 8/045. £80 LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo. Aviendo la señora, que pidiò à Don Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, unos versos, estando en campaña, recibido el romance, que la embiò dicho Gerardo, el qual empieza: espossible, que me mandes. Le responde à èl con sus proprios assonantes. [Colophon:] Sevilla: por Francsico de Leefdael [17--]. 4to. [16]p. Caption title. Each page of text has border of printer's ornaments. Marbled paper wrappers. A4 verso begins: 'En oposito de las dezimas, que Don Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, escribiò al oìdor, que le queria quitar un chichisbeo, escribe estas el incognito, que le impugnò las en que dicho Gerardo difiniò el chichisbeo, con sus proprios consonantes'. B3 recto begins: 'A la respuesta, que D. Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, hizo en quintillas, eligiendo de las tres cosas, que abaxo su mencionan, el coche, se opone el incognito, defendiendo deberse elegir la muger hermosa, con los mismos consonantes'. None of these texts is printed in the selection of Lobo's poetry in BAE vol.61. Palau 139482. Not in Escudero. No copies in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/046. £40 LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo. Carta, que escriviò a D. Luis de Narvaez, su teniente coronel D. Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, en ocasión de averse separado con sus compañias, aquel para la Andaluzía, y èl para los montes de Toledo ... Sevilla: por Francisco de Leefdael [17--]. 4to. [24]p. Each page of text has border of printer's ornaments. Modern marbled paper wrappers. The text of leaves A2 recto to C1 verso is reproduced, with some variants, as one of Lobo's Décimas in BAE vol.61, pp.42-3. C2 recto (mis-signed A2) begins a new poem: 'Otro aloxamiento del mismo, escrito à unos amigos', which is printed, with some variants, as one of Lobo's Romances in BAE vol.61, p.37 (no.vi). Not in Palau. Cf. Escudero 2664. No copy in NUC. Book # 8/047. £40 LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo. D. Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, escrive las siguientes Dezimas à cierto objeto de los assumptos de unas academias, cuyo capricho quiso autorizar à un criado suyo, con el titulo de ingenio de su persona, cuyo motivo dispertò la embidia de un oìdor, y un racionero, à que como academicos contrinzantes, pretendieron apropiarse dicho empleo en ausencia de su posseedor. Y las dirige à su auxiliatriz la ilustrissima señora la Sra Condessa de Atares, y del Villar. Sevilla: por Francisco de Leefdael [17--]. 4to. [16]p. Each page of text surrounded by border of printer's ornaments. Modern marbled paper wrappers. B1 recto begins: 'Partiendose a campaña, expressa sentimientos de una despedida, D. Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, en estas liras'; this is followed on B3 recto by 'De repente à un alumno Baco, escrive estas Dezimas D. Eugenio Gerardo Lobo'. None of these texts is included in the selection of Lobo's poetry in BAE vol.61. Not in Palau. Not in Escudero. No copies in NUC or in BLC. Book # 8/048. £40 LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo. Don Eugenio Gerardo Lobro, escrive à un amigo enamorado, burlando de el amore. Romance. [Colophon:] Sevilla: por Francisco de Leefdael, [17--]. 4to. [16]p. Signed: A4, [2]A4. Caption title. Each page has border of printer's ornaments. Modern marbled paper wrappers. A3 recto begins: 'Satisfaze a la razon ofendida de lonecio de una desconfiança'. [2]A1 recto begins: 'Escrive al tesorero, pidiendo le libre alguna cantidad sobre su sueldo, Don Eugenio Gerardo Lobo' - this poem is printed amongst Lobo's Romances, BAE vol.61 pp.34-5 (no.ii). [2]A3 verso begins: 'Escrive al Inspector de la Cavalleria, pidiendo le dè de baxa un cavallo, que pinta: Don Eugenio Gerardo Lobo'. Palau 139481. Not in Escudero. No copies in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/049. £40 LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo. Relación, que para que la dixesse una señora, hizo D. Eugenio Gerardo Lobo. [Sevilla: Francisco de Leefdael, 17--] 4to. [8]p. Caption title. Each page has border of printer's ornaments. Modern marbled paper wrappers. The text of this poem is not included in the selection of Lobo's poems in BAE vol.61. Palau 139488. Not in Escudero. No copies in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/050. £25 LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo. Soliloquios, que haze un rendido amante, expressando sus ansias, y congoxas. Por D. Eugenio Gerardo Lobo. Romance. [Colophon:] Sevilla: Francisco de Leefdael [17--]. 4to. [16]p. Caption title. Each page of text has border of printer's ornaments. Modern marbled wrappers. B3 recto begins with caption title: 'Quexase de el infiel proceder de una deydad, el dolor de un ofendido', a poem of 18 stanzas. A longer version of 25 stanzas, with textual variants, is printed as one of Lobo's Romances in BAE vol.61, p.38 (no.IX). Cf. Palau 139480. Not in Escudero. No copies in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/051. £40 LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo. Tercer aloxamiento. Carta, que al Rmo Padre Rebrera, coronista de Aragõ, escribiò desde su quartel Don Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, Capitan de Cavallos del Regimiento Viejo de Granada. [Colophon:] Sevilla: por Francisco de Leefdael [c.1715]. 4to. [16]p. Caption title. Each page of text has border of printer's ornaments. Modern marbled wrappers. The text is printed (though with some variant readings) as one of Lobo's Décimas in BAE vol.61, pp.40-41. Cf. Palau 139487. Not in Escudero; Whitehead L156. No copy in NUC. Book # 8/052. £40 [LOBO, Eugenio Gerardo]. Venerables instrucciones, para ser en breve tiempo gran soldado en sincopa; gran oficial en abreviatura; y uno, y otro en diphthongo. Halladas en el libro de memorias de un sargento mayor escrupuloso: recogidas por un capitan aprendis, y novicio: practicadas por todo el mundo. Sevilla: por Francisco de Leefdael [17--]. 4to. [12]p. Each page of text has border of printer's ornaments. Modern marbled paper wrappers. The text is printed as one of Lobo's Décimas in BAE vol. 61, pp.41-2 (with 20 verses instead of the 19 printed here, and with the title Irónicas instrucciones para ser buen soldado). Palau 358446 (under title). Not in Escudero. NUC locates one copy (title entry) at HSA. Book # 8/053. £40 LUCUZE, Pedro de. Principios de fortificacion, que contienen las definiciones de los terminos principales de las obras de plaza, y de campaña, con una idea de la conducta regularmente observada en al ataque, y defensa de las fortalezas. Sispuestos para la instrucccion de la juventud militar. Barcelona: por Thomas Piferrer, 1772. 4to. [36], 318p. 10 fold. plates. Bookplate of Brooklyn Public Library. Embossed and perforated library stamps on title page. Contemporary vellum, worn, with library press mark on spine. One of several works on military engineering by an influential general who was Director of the Military Academy at Barcelona. His other writings include: Discurso o dictamen sobre la anchura de los caminos reales (1763), Disertación sobre las medidas militares (1773) and Nociones militares (1781). Palau 143474; not in Whitehead; J. Almirante, Bibliografía militar de España, p.454; A Bonet Correa, Bibliografía de arquitectura, ingenieria ... en España, 779. Book # 18/082. £220 MESTRE, Miguel. Vida, y milagros del glorioso San Antonio de Padua ... A esta última impresión se han añadido otros muchos milagros, y láminas. Barcelona: Imprenta de María Angela Martí viuda, 1759. 8vo. [16], 404, [4]p. 14 full page woodcuts within text. Half title mounted. Margins of pp.379-82 shaved. Occasional light spotting. Contemporary vellum, new endpapers. Front cover sprung. One of several editions (the earliest printed at Barcelona in 1688) of a biography of St. Antony of Padua, who was born in Lisbon in 1195 and died near Padua in 1231. In popular devotion St Antony is venerated as the apostle of charity, invoked in both spiritual and temporal needs (the finder of lost objects; patron of lovers, of marriage, of women in confinement; as a helper against diabolic obsesssion, fever, animal diseases; as the patron of miners). He is venerated as an admiral by the Portuguese (because of their victory over the French in 1710) and by the Spanish (because of the expulsion of the Moors from Oran in 1732). In iconography, he is symbolized according to his many activities: with a book or cross for the preacher, a flame or burning heart for the apostle of charity and for his Augustinian connections, and with a lily or the Christ Child for the saint. Palau 166524. This edition not in NUC or BLC (but cf. Whitehead M411 for "decimatercia impresión" Madrid, 1777. Book # 8/059. £60 MILIZIA, Francisco. El teatro. Obra escrita en italiano ... y traducida al español por D.J.F.O. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1789. 8vo. 237p. Slight tear in leaf M4. Contemporary vellum. 'Francisco Milizia (1725-1798) was unquestionably the most influential and the most prolific of the Italian Settecento theoreticians whose concepts and opinions, subsumed under the term Illuminismo (Enlightenment), are conected with rationalism and particularly with the doctrines of Carlo Lodoli. Milizia's architectural criticism is also the most consistent in its advocacy of the new, anti-baroque, and neoclassicist ideals.' - W. Oechslin, Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Architecture, v.3, pp.197-9. This work on the theatre (first Italian edition, 1711; Spanish translation by José Francisco Ortiz) contains a substantial discussion of theatre architecture, with brief discussions of the chief theatres of Italy, France, England and Russia. Palau 169294; A. Bonet Correa, Bibliografía de arquitectura, 147; not in Whitehead. Book # 18/081. £120 MOLINA, Juan Ignatius. The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili. Illustrated by a half-sheet map of the country. With notes from the Spanish and French versions, and an appendix, containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Translated from the original Italian, by an American gentleman. Middletown (Conn.): printed for I. Riley, 1808. 2 vols. Vol.1: [8], xii., 271, [2]p. 1 fold. map. Vol.2: [2], viii, [2], 305, [3], 68p. Pages a little yellowed. Stamp on title pages of Boston College High School Domestic Library. New marbled boards, morocco-backed. New end-papers. Born in Chile in 1740, Molina entered the Jesuits in Santiago in 1755. With the expulsion of the Society by Charles III in 1767 he followed his confrères to Italy, eventually being appointed to the chair of natural history at the Pontifical Institute in Bologna. He gained scientific renown with his Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili (1782) and Saggio sulla storia civile del Chili (1787) which were quickly translated into Spanish by Nicolás de la Cruz y Bahamonde as Compendio de historia geográfica natural y civil del reino de Chile (Madrid, 1788-95). This, the first edition in English, was translated by Richard Alsop, an American millionaire considered the most intellectually gifted of "The Hartford Wits". Shaw & Shoemaker, no. 15628; Sabin 49893. De Backer-Sommervogel, V, col.1165-6, no.4. This American edition not in BL. Book # 18/030. £230 NIETO Y MOLINA, Francisco. El fabulero. Madrid: en la Imprenta de Don Antonio Muñòz del Valle; se hallarà en la Librería de Antonio del Castillo y en la de Bartholomè Lopez, 1764. 4to. [8], 124p. Modern dark blue cloth, leather-backed. A collection of Greek myths in Spanish verse by a native of Cadiz. Bound with ÁLVAREZ DE TOLEDO PELLICER Y TOBAR, Gabriel, Obras posthumas poéticas, con La Burrumaquia ... Sacalas a luz ... Diego de Torres Villarroèl, el que escrive al principio un resumen de la vida, y virtudes de este author, Madrid: en la Imprenta del Convento de la Merced; se hallarà en casa de Juan de Moya, 1744. 4to. [24], 132p. Title page slightly yellowed; very slight worming in upper margins of gatherings M-O, without loss of text. The poet and historian, Álvarez de Toledo y Pellicer, was born in Seville of a Portuguese family, became librarian to Philip V and was one of the founder members of the Real Academia Española. Apart from his burlesque Burromaquia written in his youth, his poetry is mystical and philosophical in tone. - Ward p.20. Item 1: Palau 191279. Whitehead N43. Item 2: Palau 10030. Whitehead A113. Book # 8/063. £260 PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. Carta tercera de tres, que el venerable Señor Don Juan de Palafox, escribiò al Sumo Pontifice Inocencio X sobre informar a Su Santidad de varias cosas de la Compañia. Preceden dos cartas de Su General, à las que se satisface al fin. Sevilla: por Fr[a]ncisco Lira, 1750. 8vo. [6], 176, 147-186p. Fault in press-work on M4 slightly affecting two words. Paper covers, slightly soiled. Palafox y Mendoza arrived in Mexico in 1610 as Bishop of Puebla de los Angeles and from that point on has been a subject of controversy. His ecclesiastical duties in Mexico brought him into conflict with several religious orders, particularly the Jesuits, with whom he had a famous law suit which originated when he denied them the right to hear confessions and to preach. The dispute lasted several years and was eventually settled by Pope Innocent X in favour of the Bishop, who returned to Spain in 1649. (See New Catholic Encyclopaedia, v.10, p.872.) European Americana, 750/233: "The 3rd of 3 typographically consistent vols, each with identical ornament on t.p. For cautionary descriptions of the 1st 2 vols see 1646 (for Palafox's Carta) & 1650 (for the Carta segunda). While the imprint of this vol. is certainly false, it is probable that all 3 were printed sometime in the early to mid 18th century." Palau 209690. Not in Escudero. NUC reports only the John Carter Brown Library copy; not in Whitehead. Book # 18/091. £90 PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. El Panegírico de Plinio en castellano, pronunciado en el Senado en alabanza del mejor Príncipe Trajano Augusto ... traducido del latín por ... Francisco de Barreda: ilustrado con varias notas, y diez discursos ... Madrid: en la Imprenta de D. Antonio Espinosa, 1787. 4to. [12], 308p. 1 plate: 'Plinio orando en el Senado á presencia de Trajano' signed 'Josef Ximeno.' Stamp of Biblioteca de Manuel Polo y Pérez on title and final page; signature of Polo y Pérez on verso of t.p. Contemporary mottled calf, slightly worn. The Panegyric of Pliny the Younger, a public speech of thanks to the Emperor Trajan full of correctly loyal sentiments. This Spanish translation was first published at Madrid in 1622. The translator has added ten Discursos or commentaries, the most interesting of which is perhaps Discurso IX 'Invectiva á las comedias que prohibió Trajano, y apología por las nuestras.' Palau 229053. Beardsley 159. NUC reports 2 copies of this edition. No copy in BLC. Book # 8/068. £80 [RAMOS DEL MANZAÑO, Francisco.] Al excelentisimo Señor D. Luis Méndez de Haro por la paz de España, i Francia. Elogio lírico. [N.p. 1659?] 4to. [10]p. Modern plain paper wrappers. Signed at end: 'Roman Sforcia Cusani' whom Palau identifies as Francisco Ramos del Manzaño. Verses addressed to Philip IV's chief minister Luis de Haro, who on 7 November 1659 signed with Mazarin the Treaty of the Pyrenees thereby concluding peace between Spain and France. The terms were moderate and Spain suffered little territorial loss, but the peace as a whole marked the formal passing of Spain's century-old pretensions to European hegemony. This work not in Palau. Not recorded in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/072. £80 RIPOLL, Acacio Antonio de. Regaliarum tractatus. Barcinone: ex praelo Gabrielis Nogues, expensis Francisci Menescal & Gabrielis Nogues, 1644. Fol. [12], 335, [63]p. Text in double columns (one col. on p.75 partly scored out in ink). Heavy discolouration in some gatherings; slight marginal damp stains in first few leaves. Contemporary limp vellum. A treatise on royal rights and privileges written by a Catalan jurisconsult whose other legal works included a treatise on maritime law and a commentary on Roman wills. Palau 269184. No copy in NUC or BL. Book # 18/047. £250 [RIVAS, Manuel José de la]. Gramatical construcción de los hymnos eclesiasticos, dividida en siete libros por el orden del Breviario Romano, explicación y medida de sus versos, por Fr. Joseph de la Calzada. Madrid: en la Imprenta de D. Andres Ramirez, 1778. 8vo. [4], 244, [8]p. Stamp of St. Francis Xavier College Library, New York, on verso of t.p. and in margin of p.93. Contemporary vellum, remains of ties. A work mainly on the metres of 178 Latin hymns, with a Spanish translation accompanying the Latin text of each hymn. It was first published in Mexico in 1738 (Medina, Mexico 3523; Palau 270004) with the name of José Manuel de Rivas on the title page. Two other Mexican editions followed. In 1768 and 1776 editions were published at Madrid, edited by José de la Calzada but still with Rivas as author. In this 1778 edition Calzada's name alone appears on the title page. Palau 107232 note. This edition not in BLC (which has the Madrid 1768 edition catalogued under Liturgies - Latin Rite - Hymnals). 1 copy located by NUC. Book # 8/074. £50 SANDOVAL, Prudencio de. The civil wars of Spain, in the beginning of the reign of Charls the 5t, Emperor of Germanie, and King of that nation. Written originally in the Spanish-tongue ... never yet translated, now put into English by Captain J.W[adsworth]. London: Printed by William Du-Gard; and are to bee sold by John Holden, 1652. Fol. [8], 387p. Title page and preliminary leaves creased. Contemporary calf (worn at corners and edges), without end-papers or fly leaves. Armorial bookplate of Agnew of Lochnaw, Baronet; signature on title page: Tho. Agnew. A translation by James Wadsworth of Historia de la vida y hechos del Emperador Carlos V (Valladolid, 1604-6), a vast, painstaking but uninspired history, useful however for the number of original documents inserted by the author. Sandoval, a Benedictine, succeeded Ambrosio de Morales as royal chronicler and became bishop of Pamplona in 1612. His other works include a history of the Benedictine monasteries of Spain and a history of the kings of Castile and Leon. The translator, James Wadsworth the younger, was educated at the English colleges at Seville, Madrid and St. Omer. After a short period in the Spanish army he came to England, and acted as a spy for the English government against the Catholics. In 1629 he published his English-Spanish pilgrime, a hostile account of English Catholic institutions in Spain. Wing S664; Allison S7; Almirante p.789; not in Penney. Book # 18/144. £250 SOLÍS Y RIVADENEIRA, Antonio de. Historia de la conquista de Mexico ... Nueva edicion ... aumentada con la vida del autor, que escivio Don Juan de Goyeneche. Brusselas: en casa de Francisco Foppens, 1704. Fol. [20]p. [302p numbered in columns, 604], [18]p. 12 plates, unsigned, 2 maps, unsigned. Little, insignificant marginal worming; a few marginal tears. Slight discolouration on a few pages. Signed 'Robert Melvill, Antwerp 1745' on front fly leaf i.e. R. Melville, 1723-1809, general and antiquary. Contemporary calf, worn. Solís had gained a reputation as a poet and dramatist before being appointed chronicler of the Indies in 1667. A model of Castilian prose, Solís's account of the conquest of Mexico covers a period of two years: from the journey of Juan de Grijalva in 1518 to the final surrender of Montezuma in 1520. His approach is one of hero-worship, with Cortés unequivocally at the centre of the narrative. The work was first published in 1684. Palau 318604; Sabin 86448; Peeters-Fontainas 1222; Medina, BHA, 2110; Whitehead S323. Book # 18/094. £400 SOLÍS Y RIVADENEIRA, Antonio de. Varias poesías sagradas, y profanas ... Recogidas, y dadas a luz por Don Juan de Goyeneche ... Madrid: por Francisco del Hierro; a costa de Francisco Lasso, 1716. 4to. [12], 350p. Title page and preliminaries slightly browned. Clean tear in E3. 19th-century calf, slightly worn. Solís also produced a large corpus of poetry, much of it in the style of Góngora, which was published posthumously in a collected edition in 1692 with the title Varias poésias, sagradas y profanas. Further editions appeared in 1714, 1716, 1732 and 1782. Palau 318552. This edition not in BLC but cf. Whitehead S296 for a Madrid edition of 1732. Book # 8/084. £180 SPAIN - Navy. Estado general de la Real Armada. Año de 1808. Madrid: en la Imprenta Real, [1809]. 8vo. 160p. Red morocco armorial binding, all edges gilt. A listing by name of all the personnel in the higher echelons of the Spanish Navy. Divided up by department e.g. Tesorería del Almirantazgo, Cuerpo de Medicina y Cirugía, Capitanes de Puerto, Infantería de Marina, Correos marítimos. The list also includes details of personnel of Spanish naval bases overseas e.g. Apostaderos de Marina en las Indias. According to Palau this series of Navy Lists was begun in 1785. Palau 83336. BLC has 5 volumes covering the years 1829-32, 1858. Book # 8/088. £200 TACITUS, Cornelius. Tacito español ilustrado con aforismos, por Don Baltasar Alamos de Barrientos. Madrid: por Luis Sãchez, a su costa, y de Juan Hasrey, 1614. Fol. [2], 1003, [152]p. Pagination is erratic, with a hiatus between p.554 and p.604 (i.e. between the end of the Annales and the beginning of the Historiae). Engraved title within historiated border made up of 8 panels. Engraved arms of Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duque de Lerma, on first page of Dedicatoria. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and intitials. 18th-century speckled calf (slightly worn). This translation of Tacitus includes Germania, Agricola, and all the extant books of the Annales and Historiae. Alamos added "Aforismos" which appear as marginalia, a brief biography of Tacitus, and a geographical index. Another translation of Tacitus into Spanish had been published independently in the previous year (Antwerp, 1613), the work of Emanuel Sueyro. The similiarities of the two translations may be attributed, not to plagiarism, but to the fact that both translators worked from the same Latin text - that established by Justus Lipsius forty years earlier. The "Aforismos" were extracted and published separately at Antwerp in 1651 and at Brussels in 1724, but the complete Alamos translation did not appear again until the end of the 19th century. Palau 326438. Pérez Pastor 1307 (with faulty signature collation). Beardsley 144. Goldsmith T2. Penney p.548. Porqueras Mayo & Laurenti 379(40). Book # 8/090. £450 VÁZQUEZ ORTEGA, Antonio. Elogio que a la presencia del Senado español dixo el orador de la patria Don Antonio Vazquez Ortega en obsequio del excelentisimo señor D. Antonio Barcelò Teniente General de la Real Armada de S.M.C. Mallorca: por Salvador Savall [1784]. 4to. [1], 21, [1]p. Modern marbled paper wrappers. Speech in honour of Antonio Barcelò, Spanish naval commander, esteemed for his victories over the pirates of the Barbary coast and also for his part in the naval blockade of Gibraltar (1779-83). Barcelò was a native of Mallorca, where this edition was published. This edition not in Palau, but cf. Palau 354097 (Madrid, 1784) & Palau 354098 (Barcelona, 1784). Not in Almirante. No copies in NUC or BLC. Book # 8/093. £70 VEGA, Ventura de la. La muerte de César, tragedia. Madrid: M. Rivadeneyra, 1863. Large 8vo. xix, [3], 126p. Bound in full contemporary roan, all edges gilt. Slight foxing. Ventura de la Vega (1807-65) was born in Buenos Aires but left Argentina for Spain in 1818. In Madrid he became a pupil of the poet, Alberto Lista, and later taught literature to Isabella II, having made a reputation at an early age by translations of the Song of Songs (1825) and of the Psalms (1826). His plays reveal the influence of many dramatists, but in particular that of Leandro Fernández de Moratín. Palau 355171. Book # 8/094. £40 WARD, Bernardo. Proyecto económico, en que se proponen varias providencias, dirigidas á promover los intereses de España, con los medios y fondos necesarios para su plantificación: escrito en el año de 1762 ... Obra postuma. Segunda impresión. Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra, 1779. 4to. [4], xxviii, 400p. Modern vellum. Some very slight marginal water-staining. Ward, an Irishman who had settled in Spain, was commissioned by Ferdinand VI to undertake a fact-finding mission in Europe in 1750-54, and upon his return composed the Proyecto económico, completed in 1762 but published posthumously in 1779 (1st and 2nd editions, with a 3rd edition in 1782 and a 4th in 1787). The Proyecto económico suggests ways of encouraging agriculture and commerce in Spain and her colonies. The proposals are quite specific and were probably controversial. In Part 1, for example, which is concerned mostly with Spain, Ward proposes the abolition of privileges granted to guilds, cities, provinces, the Mesta and the Cabaña Real (p.147). Part 2 is concerned with the Spanish possessions in the Americas. Ward shows how Spain might imitate British and French commercial practice in their colonies. He suggests that the Indians be given and taught to cultivate land, or taught to run other businesses, and that they be allowed to trade more freely among themselves, with colonists and with Spain. Ward also advocates the extension of trade between Spain's American possessions and Asia, and the establishment of a regular system of transportation and communication between Spain and the colonies. The final section of Part 2 (pp.320-400), Obra pía, medio de remediar la miseria de la gente pobre de España, originally published separately in 1750, is "an influential work on the question of poverty and idleness" that "especially promoted the idea that the State could expect substantial economic benefits by applying the idle poor to useful tasks". - W.J. Callahan, Honor, commerce and industry in 18th-century Spain, p.60. Medina, BHA 494. Palau 373988. Kress Library Cat. B243. Book # 8/096. £450 WARD, Bernardo. Proyecto económico ...Quarta impresión. Madrid: por la viuda de Ibarra, Hijos, y Compañia, 1787. 4to. [4] xxviii, 319, [1], lxxxp. Title and half title spotted. Some leaves browned. Modern marbled boards, leather-backed. Medina, BHA 5281. Palau 373990. Kress Library Cat. S5165. Book # 8/097. £350 ZARAGOZA, José. Trigonometria hispana, resolutio triangulorum plani, & sphaerici: constructio sinuum, tangentium, secantium, & logarithmorum, eorumque usus ... Secunda editio. Valentiae: apud Hyeronimum de Villagrassa, 1673. 4to. [8], 136p. 4 sheets of mathematical problems and 3 sheets of geometrical drawings tipped in. Cancelled library stamp on verso of title page. Contemporary vellum, with ties. A work on trigonometry by one of Spain's foremost mathematicians and astronomers of the 17th century. Born in Alcalá de Chibert in 1627, Zaragoza turned down at an early age the Chair of Mathematics in Valencia and in 1651 entered the Jesuit Order. However, his devotion to mathematics remained undiminished and by his death in 1679 he had published nine works on mathematics and astronomy including his Arithmetica universal of 1669 (his first published work), Esphera en comun celeste y terraquea of 1675, and Fábrica y uso de varios instrumentos mathematicos con que sirvio al Rey N.S. D. Carlos Segundo, also published in 1675 - the year in which Zaragoza was appointed preceptor in mathematics to the Spanish king. Many more writings survive in manuscript, including Zaragoza's observations on the comet visible at Arganda near Madrid in 1677 (communicated in abbreviated form to the Journal des Savants of the same year). See Armando Cotarelo Valledor, El P. José de Zaragoza y la astronomía de su tiempo, in Asociación Nacional de Historiadores de la Ciencia española, Êstudios sobre la ciencia española del siglo XVII (Madrid, 1935), pp.65-223. Bound with: [ZARAGOZA, José], Canon trigonometricus. Continens logarithmos, sinuum, et tangentium, ad singula scrupula totius semicirculi. Radii logarithmo 10.0000000. Matriti: apud Bernardum à Villa-Diego, 1672. 4to. [48]p. Bound with: [ZARAGOZA, José], Tabula logarithmica continens undecim numerorum chiliades, cum suis logarithmis ab unitate, scilicet, ad 11100. Dispositis nova methodo, et proportioni astronomicae applicatis in gratiam astronomorum. Matriti: apud Bernardum à Villa-Diego, 1672. 4to. [40]p. Item 1: Palau 379545. De Backer-Sommervogel vol.8, col.1466, no.5. Not in Penney. NUC reports only the New Public Library copy of this Latin text, plus 2 copies of the Spanish version, Trigonometria española, Mallorca, 1672. Spanish text only in BLC (Goldsmith Z6). Item 2: Palau 379542. De Backer-Sommervogel vol.8, col.1466, no.3. Not in Penney. NUC reports 3 copies. Not in BLC. Item 3: Palau 379543. De Backer-Sommervogel vol.8, col.1466, no.4. not in Penney. NUC reports 2 copies. Not in BLC. Book # 8/100. £750 ZORRILLA Y MORAL, José. La oliva y el laurel. Alegoría escrita para las fiestas de la proclamación de S.M. la Reina Doña Isabel II. Madrid: en la Imprenta de Yenes, 1843. 8vo. Cloth boards, morocco-backed. Bookplate removed. A drama in verse published in the year that Isabella II of Spain was declared of age by a military pronunciamento. She began her reign by dissolving the Cortes and a liberal revolt followed. A bad queen, wilful, unreliable and - like her father - surrounded by intriguers, she was deposed at the age of thirty-eight by the so-called 'glorious' revolution. Palau 380872. Book # 8/102. £35
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