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NEW & OLD
WORLD 
63 comedias sueltas — Spanish Theater of the Golden Age 
(A
Calderón COLLECTION).
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro.
Three-volume sammelband of comedias sueltas. Barcelona, Salamanca,
Sevilla, & Valencia: various publishers/printers, ca. 1760–82.
Small 4to (19.6–21 cm, 7.75"–8.25"). 3 vols.
Click the images for enlargements. 
Some titles include information about when and where plays were originally performed.
Provenance & Evidence of Readership: In each volume, the ink presentation inscription “W.A. Sanford to E.C.A. Sanford” on the front fly-leaf is followed by an index in the same 19th-century hand. Vol. II also has a typed index.
A full list of the plays is available upon request.
• See Bergman & Szmuk, Comedias Sueltas; McKnight & Jones, Catalogue of Comedias Sueltas; and Sullivan & Bershas, Comedias Sueltas; Don W. Cruickshank, Don Pedro Calderón. Early 19th-century vellum over boards with binder's sticker on front pastedown and ink title to spines; spine vellum of vol. I significantly torn. Nearly all of the comedias are trimmed close at the margins, many with loss to signature marks and occasionally a bottom line of text; some age-toning, stains, occasional water damage, and foxing. Where colophons are affected, dates have been supplied using the aforementioned references. (29317)
This entry is repeated in the
The
FIRST Press
in Guatemala Memorializes
una
Gran Fiesta
(A
JOYOUS Event for Mercedarians).
Núñez, Roque.
Diario célebre, solemne novenario, pompa festiva, aclamación gloriosa,
con que la ... provincia de la Presentación de Goatemala, del órden
real de Nuestra Señora de la Merced Redempción de Captivos celebró
... el culto immemorial del ... S. Pedro Pasqual de Valencia. Guatemala: por
Joseph de Pineda Ybarra, 1673. 4to (20.5 cm; 8"). [20], 197 ff.
Click the images for enlargements. 
All are described or transcribed here. 
José Pineda Ibarra who arrived at Antigua in 1660. He had worked as an assistant to several printers in Mexico, but according to Medina did not have his own press; when Payo de Ribera's representative found him, he had moved to Puebla but was apparently not doing well there. (Medina does not list him as a printer in Puebla — presumably he was again working for others.) The bishop apparently paid for the press that was taken to Guatemala, and Pineda Ibarra later purchased it from him. Torre Revello (quoted in Furlong) remarks that despite the dearth of materials available to him in his new place of settlement, Pineda Ibarra managed to print exceedingly well: “Ningún tipógrafo de los que le sucedieron, durante el periodo colonial, logró superar la pulchritud y elegancia de sus trabajos.”
All 17th-century imprints from Guatemala are extremely rare: Searches of WorldCat, NUC Pre-1956, Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, COPAC, and MetaBase
fail to locate any copies of this one anywhere. We do know, however, of one copy in the Guatemalan national library itself.
Provenance: Marca de fuego on the upper edges of the text block of a Mercedarian convent. The marca does not matches those known to have been used in Mexico, leading one to believe this copy belonged to the Mercedarian convent in Guatemala.
• Medina, Guatemala, 38. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties; without the final blank leaf (only). A very nice copy of a very scarce early Guatemalan book. (29425)
This entry is repeated in the
A
Triumph of 19th-Century
MEXICAN Literature,TYPOGRAPHY,
ILLUSTRATION,
& BINDING
(A
MEXICAN “TESORO”)! Cumplido,
Ignacio, ed. Presente amistoso
dedicado a las senoritas Mexicanas. [Mexico]: Ignacio Cumplido, [1850]. 8vo
(26.5 cm, 10.45"). Col. t.-p., iv, 435, [1] pp.; 20 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. 
Binding:
Contemporary deep reddish-brown sheep in imitation of morocco, exuberantly
flourished in gilt both as to both covers and the spine; front cover gilt
extra with arabesque and floral designs surrounding a vignette of a girl bearing
a basket of flowers on her head, spine with gilt-stamped title and similar
motifs, back cover with blind-tooled foliate decorations and gilt-stamped
arabesque motifs. All edges gilt. This
binding is illustrated as “lamina XXVIII” in Manuel Romero de
Terreros' Encuadernaciones artisticas mexicanas, siglos XVI al XIX.
• Palau 66293; Sabin 65337 (for 1847 & 1852 eds.).
Binding as above, mild rubbing overall, especially to spine; front joint just
starting from head. Hinges (inside) cracked across paper, with text block
starting to pull away. Pages gently age-toned, with some light foxing generally
to or around plates and a few corners crumpled. One plate with ragged outer
edge, not touching image. Silk bookmarker laid in; many guard leaves still
present. More solid than description might imply, and an all-around
remarkable, beautiful volume. (29091)
This entry is repeated in the
“Los MEXICANOS Aun Conservan la Fé”A., L. Broadside, begins: “A Maria Santisima de
Guadalupe. Soneto.” [Mexico or Puebla]: No publisher/printer, [ca. 1836–46]. Small 8vo (22 x
16.3 cm; 8.75" x 6.5"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. The present sonnet is printed on wove paper and its typography points to
the ten-year period indicated. Above the drop-title isan
excellent wood engraving of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The first
line reads, “Y que solo el dolor y la tristura”.
Apparently not in WorldCat or NUC.
• Not in Grajales & Burrus. Faint age-toning; edges a little crumpled and with a few short tears. Lower outer corner torn just touching the type-ornament border. A nice surviving copy. (30216)
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Poema
americana Born
of a Jesuit &
Made Accessible
by a Franciscan
Abad,
Diego Jose. Musa americana. Poema que
en verso heroico latino escribió un erudito americano, sobre los soberanos
atributos de Dios.... Mexico: Por D. Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros,
1783. 12mo (14 cm; 5.5"). [3] ff., 151 [i.e., 149] pp.
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begun
in Querétaro and completed
in Italy. The first edition contained only 29 cantos and was issued at Cadiz
in 1769, with subsequent editions at Venice (1773) and Ferrara (1775). He continued
working on the poem and the 43-canto definitive edition appeared posthumously
(Cesana, 1780).
Diego Bringas de Manzaneda y Encinas was a Franciscan and his epitome of Abad's work is written in “octava rima”: as such it holds an important place in Mexican colonial-era poetry, especially in the subgenre of Christian poetry.
The work's chief themes are the Immaculate Conception and the attributes of God, but it also delves into the relation of science and our understanding of the cosmos: Newton and Huygens are specifically mentioned in the section on knowledge.
• Palau 258 & 35854; DeBacker-Sommervogel, I, 3; Medina, Mexico,
7400. Contemporary vellum over light boards. All edges green. A
very nice copy of a significant work of early Mexican poetry, religion, and,
at points, science. (29433)
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Christian
Chronicle
Adrichem, Christiaan van. Chronicon de Christiano Adricomio
Delfo; traducido de latin en español por Don Lorenco Martinez de Marcilla.
Madrid: En La Imprenta Imperial, 1679. Small 4to. π4 A–Z4
Aa–Pp4 Qq2; [4] ff., 284 (i.e., 286) pp., [11] ff.
translation into Spanish of Adrichem’s history of Biblical events to the year 109 a.d. An additional “Chronicon Breve” at the end of the volume gives a chronology from Adam and Eve to the year 1585.
Click either imageThe title is within a typographic border; text is printed in double-column format, in roman type.
• Palau 2864. 19th-century half sheep with marbled paper sides; binding shows wear. Lower margin of title-leaf and leaves of the preliminaries with minor worming; repaired with pasted-over paper. Some side- and shouldernotes shaved with loss. Sporadic soiling, not severe.
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additionally appears in the GENERAL
Extended MANUSCRIPT in an
UNCOMMON PHILIPPINE LANGUAGE Antonio
Lobato de Santo Tomás. Manuscript in Ibanag on paper:
“Quinque sermones in quinque precipuis festivitatibus B. Maria Virginis.
Quibus accedunt sermo in feria quarta cinerumz et sermo in dominica 2o post
octavam trinitatis. Per R. P. fray Antoniium Lobatao de Sto. Thomas. Tuguegarao,
The Philippines: 1776–80. Small 4to. 196 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. 
a large body of work set down in the Ibanag language, from the 18th century and as written/spoken by one of the seminal scholars of the language, should be obvious for anyone researching the language as understood by missionaries, as used by missionaries, as influenced by Spanish, and as held out by Spaniards of authority as the model of Ibanag speech to be emulated. Beyond this, of course, is the interest of the sermons themselves, letting us see what the Ibanaq speakers were hearing from their missionaries — or, at least, this missionary — in this place, in this period.
Provenance: A signature “Fr. Antonio Lobato de Sto. Thomas” appears at the bottom of the last page and is almost certainly that of the the friar himself, which would mean that this is his autograph manuscript of the sermons.
• Contemporary very stiff vellum. Binding gnawed by a rodent with loss. Written on a good quality European paper, with some soiling and an occasional stain. No faults are serious and overall this is a remarkably good survival for an 18th-century Philippines manuscript. Now housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. (23668)
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Litterati of Antwerp Salute One of Their Own — Portrait after Peter Paul RubensAsterius, Episcopus Amasenus. S. Asteri Episcopi amaseae homiliae Graecè & Latinè nunc primùm editae Philippo Rubenio interprete. Antverpiae: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud viduam & filios Ioannis Moreti, 1615. 4to (24.13 cm, 9.5"). [6] ff., 284, pp., [2] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. 
The volume was published at the request of Cardinal Ascanius Columnas in
an edition ofonly
750 copies, and was printed at Antwerp at the press of Moretus’
widow and sons with the famous Plantin device appearing in two versions (engraved,
to the title, and woodcut, to the final recto).
A full-page engraved funeral portrait of Rubens engraved by Cornelius Galleafter
Peter Paul Rubens signals the beginning of the third section,
in which Jan Brant records the life of his son-in-law’s brother and
transcribes his epitaph. Even Balthasar Moretus contributes an epigram in
honor of the deceased.
In
the fourth section, Rubens’ own orations and selected letters appear,
i.a. his funeral oration to Philip II of Spain. Josse
DeRycke contributed the final funerary tribute.
Done up in fully elegant Plantin–Moretus style, the volume has in addition to its careful typography and full-page plate and devices been lavished throughout with two-line block initials and four-line historiated woodcut initials; also, it offers several intricate woodcut tailpieces.
Searches of NUC Pre-1956 and WorldCat locate only eight copies in
U.S. institutions, one of which has been deaccessioned; most arenot
in obvious places.
• Graesse, I, 241; Corpus Rubenianum, XXI (1977), 152.
Period-style full brown calf, covers framed in blind double fillets,
spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, raised bands with blind tooling
extending onto covers. With a few odd spots to the text only, this is aremarkably
fine, crisp copy. All edges green. (28878)
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Jesuit
Property in MexicoImmediately
after the Expulsion
Astorga, Marqués del. Manuscript, “Admin[istraci]on de R[en]tas del Ex[celentis]mo S[en]or Marquez de Astorga, Conde de Altamira, Duque y Sr. de Atrisco. Ultima quenta.” In Spanish, on paper. Mexico City: 19 August 1767. Folio, [12] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Very good condition. Written in a clear, easy-to-read hand; attractively, as well as sensibly, laid out on the pages. (27600)
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St. Augustine & Baltazar Gracián HelpedSor Maria Isabel JosephaAugustinus, Aurelius, S. Comulgador augustino, donde se incluyen varias oraciones sacadas de las obras de la luz de la iglesia mi gran padre S. Augustin, para antes y despues de la comunion. Y las meditaciones del P. Baltazar Gracian.... Mexico: reimpresso ... en la Imprenta de D. Josph de Jauregui, 1772. 8vo. [4] ff., 159, [3] pp., plt.
Click the images for enlargements. This includes, after the title-page, a copper-engraving by Manuel Villavicencio of St. Augustine, cherubim, and St. Ignatius Loyola; following the printed text on the rear fly-leaf is a manuscript prayer in Spanish.
Provenance: “De Sor M[ari]a Ysabel Josepha” in upper margin of title-page and in the lower blank margin of the engraving.
• Medina, Mexico, 5509. Contemporary Mexican dark mottled sheep, round spine with gilt rules forming spine “compartments” and owner's gilt monogram at base; lightly rubbed. Some foremargins closely cropped. Overall, a very nice copy. (29103)
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Indulgencias
Plenarias y Perpetuas
Avila,
José de. Coleccion de noticias
de muchas de las indulgencias plenarias y perpetuas que pueden ganar todos los
fieles de Christo, que con la debida disposicion, visitaren en sus respectivos
dias. Mexico: Por Don Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1787. Small
8vo (14.5 cm; 5.5"). [10] ff., 152 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Medina, Mexico, 7695; Palau 20393. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped compartment decorations and rules; binding moderately rubbed and spine with one spot of pinhole worming. Worming to upper inner margins, not touching text; last 25 leaves with longish meander of worming actually affecting only a handful of letters on each page, not obscuring sense; first and last few pages foxed. All edges red. (25115)
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Additions to aSpaniard's Take on Roman Law Ayllón Laynez, Juan de. Illustrationes sive additiones eruditissimae ad varias resolutiones Antonii Gomezii. Lugduni [Lyon]: Sumptibus Anisson & Posuel, 1692. Folio (32.7 cm, 12.9"). [4] ff., 380, [14] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. heredity, marriage, and torture, inter alia — were first printed at Utrera, Andalusia, in 1654.
The text is in Latin, decorated with woodcut initials, factotum initials, and intricate head- and tailpieces. The title-page, printed in red and black, features a large device of a fleur-de-lis in an elaborate cartouche.
Rare, WorldCat & NUC Pre-1956 locatingjust two copies in the U.S.
• Palau 20846. Modern boards covered with 18th-century religious manuscript on vellum, with red speckled edges and ink title to spine; tight, with paper cockled and boards a bit sprung. Title-leaf with small marginal tear and three repairs; the next 88 pages repaired/reinforced in upper outer margin; minor worming variously, mostly marginal and often unnoticeable; small hole from natural paper flaw on one leaf. Foxing generally, other spotting occasionally. A used, occasionally abused, still strong copy of a scarce work. (30297)
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