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The Bear Bible — The FIRST Complete Bible in Spanish 
(A
Landmark Spanish Bible). Bible.
Spanish. Reina. 1569. La Biblia, que es, los sacros libros
del vieio y nueuo testamento. [Basel: Thomas Guarinus for or with Samuel Apiarius],
1569. 4to. [15 of 16] ff., 1438 columns, [1] p., 544, 508 columns, [1] p., [1]
f. (without the 3 leaves of “Annotationes” and the final blank); illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Rather, the production of a Bible in Spanish fell to a peripatetic exiled Spaniard named Casiodoro de Reina (ca. 1520–94), a man who began his adult life as a monk, came under suspicion of being a “Reformist,” and fled Spain for Geneva — later fleeing that city for a series of others and declaring it “a new Rome” for its intolerance of new ideas. Whether the translation is solely from his pen or is the work of a committee in which he was primus inter pares is not known.
This Bible is known as the “Bible of the Bear” or the “Bear Bible” because of the printer's device on the title-page, a bear at a honey comb, which was the device of Samuel Apiarius. The relationship between Apiarius and the actual printer, Thomas Guarinus, is unresolved. The Old Testament in this translation is based on the Hebrew and derived heavily from the Latin of St. Pagninus and from the Ferrara version. The New Testament is based on the Greek of Erasmus with comparisons to the Vetus Latina and Syriac manuscripts.
There are two states of the title-page, this being state A with the line of type ornaments described in Darlow and Moule.
• VD16 B2869; Rumball-Petre262; Darlow & Moule 8472; Graesse, I, 386; Palau 2894; Adams B12061. 17th-century English calf, rebacked with new spine gilt extra very suitable in style; leather of covers a bit crackled and variously darkened; small areas of the covers at board edges replaced with new leather sympathetically gilt-tooled. Lacks the blank preliminary leaf and the four leaves at the end of “Annotationes breves sobre los lugares . . . “, both of which are very often lacking, the latter leaves having perhaps (even probably) been printed separately and later. Small piece of front fly-leaf cut away (probably removing an ownership inscription). The occasional instance of light soil or light waterstaining to fore- or bottom margins, sometimes reaching text; a generally clean and good copy. All edges mottled red and blue-green. (25772)
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Illustrated
Indigenous
Customs
& Dress
FIRST
Edition in ENGLISH
(A
”MEXICANA” Classic). Clavigero, Francesco Saverio.
The history of Mexico. Collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts,
and ancient paintings of the Indians ... translated from the original Italian,
by Charles Cullen. London: Pr. for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787. 4to (28.5 cm,
11.2"). 2 vols. I: [2], xxxii, [4], 440, (441–44), 441–76 pp. (pagination
skips v/vi, with text complete); 1 fold. map, 25 plts., 1 table. II: [4], 463,
[1 (blank)] pp.; 1 fold. map, 1 plt.
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The
two
oversized, folding maps were engraved by T. Conder; a genealogical
chart in vol. I shows the descent of the Mexican kings from the 13th century,
while
numerous
engraved plates depict Mexican artifacts, costumes, activities, flora and
fauna, architecture, etc.
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Protecting theFamilies of the Condemned Abascal y Sousa, José Fernando. Broadside, begins: D. Jose Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, etc.. .. Por quanto se me ha comunicado por la Regencia del reyno el decreto de las Córtes generales y extraordinarias siguiente: ... Las Cortes generales y extraordinarias, atendiendo a que por el articulo 305 de la Constitucion .... Lima: no publisher/printer, 1813. Oblong folio (31.5 x 44 cm; 12.375" x 17.25"). 1 p.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Medina, Lima, 2875. Very good condition. Three small wormholes in each half of the sheet. (24508)
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Christian
ChronicleAdrichem, 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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Watch
Your Language!Anonymous.
Espíritu del amante de la constitucion. [colophon: Mejico: Imprenta
de Ontiveros, 1820]. Small 4to (21cm; 8.25"). 11, [1 (blank)] pp.
Hard to find outside of California! All copies traced in the U.S. are in that state (Bancroft, Huntington, Sutro libraries).
• Not in Medina, Mexico. Garritz 3445; Steele 66; Sutro 125. Folded as issued; old stitching holes. A clean, crisp copy.
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RARE Poetic
Encomium
Anonymous. La opinion de un mexicano el dia 4 de marzo de 1813. Mexico: Oficina de D. Mariano Ontiveros, [1813] . 8vo. [8] ff.
Click either image• Medina, Mexico, 10842; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 1826; Sutro, Supplement, 125. Folded and never bound; uncut, unopened. Small hole in blank area of inner area of title-page and its conjugate. Faint stain. (21278)
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Election AdviceAnonymous. La voz del pueblo a los electores de partido y diputados para Cortes. [colophon: Mejico: Imprenta de D. Alejandro Valdez, 1820]. Small 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). 4 pp.
Uncommon: Via OCLC, RLIN, and NUC we trace only the copies at the Sutro and Bancroft libraries.
• Medina, Mexico, 11719; Sutro 148; Steele 81, 82; Garritz 4240. Folded as issued; a little dog-earing and some short tears in fore-margin. A very decent copy of a very uncommon pamphlet.
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.
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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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Troublesome Deserters(Army Discipline). Manuscript documents. On paper, in Spanish. Nueva Guatemala, 1778–91. Folio. [16] ff. 
• Very good condition. Sewn.
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Authentic papers relating to the expedition against Carthagena. London: Pr. for L. Rymond, 1744. 8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). [1] f., 100 pp. (lacks half-title).
Click the interior images for enlargements. First edition.
• Sabin 2455; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 744/14; ESTC T22782. 20th-century half-brown leather with marbled paper sides. Faint age-toning. Lacks the half-title (only); pencilled numeral 4 at a corner of the title-page. Other pencilled “ticks” indicating someone's careful reading. (25127)
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