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Gazeta
de Caracas.
Suplemento a la Gazeta de Caracas. Caracas: Gallagher y Lamb, 27 April 1810.
Folio (31 cm; 12.25"). 1 p.
$2500.00
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Newspaper printing did not begin in Venezuela until October, 1808,
when the press of Gallagher and Lamb arrived and printed, as its first product,
the first issue of Andrés Bello’s Gazeta de Caracas. The
news that Andrés Bello gives to eager readers in this supplement concerns
the total occupation of Madrid by Napoleon’s forces, the fleeing to Gibraltar
of 5000 Spanish soldiers, and other distresses that the Spanish army was suffering.
Rare:
Charno locates copies of the supplement only at the Newberry and University
of Texas libraries.
Charno, Latin American Newspapers in United States Libraries,
pp. 590–92. As issued. Worming in foremargin, touching two letters;
repaired; small hole where paper was thin at center of leaf, taking a bit
of a rule but no text. Pencilling in margins. A very good copy.

Guridi
y Alcocer vs.
Lopez
de Cancelada
Guridi y Alcocer, José Miguel. Censor Extraordinario. Contestación de don José Miguel Guridi Alcocer lo que contra él y los Derechos de las Cortes se ha vertido en los números 13 y 14 del Telégrafo americano.... [colophon: Cadiz: En la impr. de Don Agapito Fernandez Figueroa, 1812]. 4to (20 cm; 7.5"). 47, [1 (blank)] pp.
$725.00
Guridi y Alcocer was a Mexican representative to the Spanish Cortes. Juan López de Cancelada was a member of the Consulado de Mexico. This put the two men immediately at
odds, for each group loathed the other. López de Cancelada had something of an upper hand when seeking to smear Guridi y Alcocer and the other Mexican deputies to the Cortes for he
owned and was publisher of a newspaper, El Telégrafo Americano, at Cadiz.
Guridi y Alcocer here defends himself and various of his statements in the Cortes from Cancelada's attacks in that newspaper, both personal and political. Guridi sought to open the (whole) New World to free trade, arguing for free access to European seeds, plant stocks, and exports generally. He also sought administrative reform, reduction in regulations, and the ending of colonial status.
WorldCat locates only two copies Worldwide.
Palau 111215; Sutro 87. Removed from a nonce volume. One small tear in a margin, repaired. Clean and nice. (26042)
Still
a Most Interesting
“Read”
An Edinburgh Edition
Hall, Basil. Extracts
from a journal, written on the coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the years
1820, 1821, 1822. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. and Hurst, Robinson,
& Co., 1826. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). Add. engr. t.-p., xii, 313, [1 (blank)],
add. engr. t.-p., x, 311, [1] pp. (lacking map).
$215.00

Captain Hall, a curious, good-humored, and open-minded English observer
remembered for his later Travels in North America, here records his
impressions of the countryside, customs, and social and intellectual lives of
the areas he visited in South America and Mexico, which included Valparaiso,
Lima, Santiago, Talcuhuana, Arauco, Guayaquil, Panama, and Acapulco. The sketches
are strongly and consistently critical of Spain's government of her colonies,
though admiring of the fundamental "excellent character of the Spaniards."
Hall's journal was first published in 1824; the present fifth edition was
the second volume issued in the "Constable's miscellany of original and selected
publications in the various departments of literature, science, & the
arts" series. The text has been expanded from the second edition.
Sabin 29718; Palau 112072 (first ed.). Contemporary half calf
over marbled paper sides, spine ruled in double gilt fillets with gilt-stamped
devices in compartments; worn and abraded with leather cracking over spine,
and joints cracked but holding, Lacking map. Front free endpaper with inked
ownership inscription. First and last few pages lightly spotted.
Herndon, William Lewis; & Gibbon, Lardner. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department.... Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853, & A.O.P. Nicholson, 1854. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 2 vols. I: 414, [2], iii, [1] pp.; 16 plts. II: x, [2], 339, [1] pp.; 36 plts.
$600.00
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Original government issue of these “Minute, accurate, and very interesting accounts of the aborigines of the Andes, and the Amazon and its tributaries” (Sabin). These two volumes are parts I and II of Senate Executive Document no. 36, 32d Cong., 2d sess., consisting of Lieut. Herndon’s description of following the Amazon itself and Lieut. Gibbon’s account of his travels along the Amazon’s tributaries in Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Many of the 52 lithographed plates are in duotone; some were done by Ackerman Lithography and some by P.S. Duval & Co., after views of scenery, buildings, and natives drawn by Lieut. Gibbon.
Two volumes of maps, not present here, were issued separately.
Sabin 31524; Palau 113897. Publisher’s textured cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; vol. I with spine sunned and cloth chipped at spine extremities; vol. II with corners bumped, cloth peeling away from spine and chipped at spine extremities, spine with gilt dimmed and small area of unobtrusive discoloration from now-absent label. Front pastedowns each with pencilled owner’s name and institutional rubber stamp (no other markings); front free endpaper of vol. II starting to tear along inner margin. Mild to moderate foxing and spotting; a few text gatherings unopened. One plate in vol. I with short tear from outer margin, turning into a narrow scrape extending about halfway into the upper portion of the image; one leaf in vol. II with tiny portion (less than one word) affixed to opposing plate.
Not a perfect set, but a perfectly fascinating one.

Exiled Jesuit on the
History of the New World
Iturri, Francisco Javier. Carta critica sobre la historia de America del Sr. Dn. Juan Bautista Muñoz escrita en Roma. Madrid: No publisher/printer, 1798. Small 8vo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). 120 pp.
$425.00
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Writing at Rome, Iturri, an expelled Jesuit and native of Santa Fé de la Vera Cruz, Argentina, severely criticizes Juan Bautista Muñoz's Historia general de las Indias e Nuevo Mundo (Madrid, 1793).Only the second copy that we have had in our 35 years of dealing in Latin Americana.
First edition.
Medina, BHA, 5842; Palau 122212; DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 688–89. Modern gray paper over boards with caramel-color leather author and title label on front cover. Title-page with some areas of loss, not approaching lettering; mounted. Small wormholes in margins, seldom touching text and taking at most a letter or two; pages roughened at tops by the very minor nibblings of a very small rodent. Lower margins of pp. 39–40, 77–80 irregular with loss of some of the bottom notes. Else a nice copy. (28414)

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