NEW & OLD
WORLD HISPANICA — Una miscelánea
NEW & OLD
WORLD 
Let's Play Doctor! —
Or, El Juego del Gato!
(A
Mexican Charmer). “Aficionado,
Un.” Licito recreo casero, ó coleccion de cincuenta
juegos conocidos comunmente con el nombre de juegos de prendas.... México:
Oficina de Doña Maria Fernandez Jauregui, 1806. Small 8vo. 111, [1] pp.
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the first Mexican edition of a work that was first printed in Spain in 1798. All told there are fifty games with good, easy to understand instructions on playing them. The compiler's object is to offer “entretenimiento para pasar divertidas las largas noches del Invierno.”
Very uncommon: We trace
no copies of this to any U.S. library.
• Medina, Mexico, 9842. Sewn, in original marbled paper wrappers, lacking the rear one. Last few leaves with light waterstains and final page with light dust-soiling and a very few red ink spots.
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The
AZTEC Calendar
Stone Studied
& “Dissected”
Abadiano, Dionisio. Estudio arqueológico y jeroglífico del Calendario ó gran libro astronómico histórico y cronológico de los antiguos indios. México: Impr. de la Secretaría de fomento, 1889. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). xii, 202 pp., [1(errata)] f., illus., 2 fold. plts.
Click the images for enlargements. • Palau 370. Late 19th- or early 20th-century quarter brown sheep. Very good copy. (21728)
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Christian History’s 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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A
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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Please Testify Against the Viceroy — An Appeal to the INDIANS
in their Own Language Arangoyti, Domingo. Broadside, begins: Don Domingo Arangoyti, ytechcopa inthohueeitlatocatzin ihuan ytl[colophon: achizcauh intlatocayeyantli, in Chancilleria ipan huey Altepetl Guadalaxara.... Mexico: 13 November 1766. Folio extra (58 cm; 32.875"). 1 p.
Click the image for an enlargement. In this particular copy a Nahuatl-speaking secretary (either José de Molina or Francisco Gerónimo de Luna, both of whom have signed the document) has corrected typographical errors. Arangoyti's full signature appears in the lower margin.
This is theonly known indigenous-language broadside reaching out to the indigenous population during the entire colonial period asking for its participation in a judicial review of a viceroy's conduct of office. Other official publications in Nahuatl dealt with health and insurrections.
VERY RARE. Not listed in OCLC or any bibliography of Nahuatl publications. This is the only copy we have seen in our 40 years of dealing in and researching Nahautl publications.
• Not in Viñaza; not in Medina, Mexico (but see 5036 where it is mentioned but as “not seen”); not in H. de Leon-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli; not in González de Cossío, Cien; not in González de Cossío, 510; not in Pilling, Proof-sheets. As issued, with later folds. Some worming — pinhole-type in text, a meander in blank margin — none serious, none costing entire letters. A very good copy. (23946)
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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.
SpanishCity of GodAugustinus, Aurelius, Saint.
La ciudad de Dios. Amberes: Geronymo Verdussen, 1676. Folio. [4] ff., 582 pp., [1] f. 
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Provenance: Ownership inscription on front pastedown of Juan de Porras, dated Madrid, 1687; and another on the title-page of José de Quitana y Azevedo, an Audiencia judge, dated Santafé de Bogotá, 1732. Bookplate of a 20th-century American collector who lived for a while in Bogotá — pictured.
• Palau 28935; Peeters-Fontainas, Bibliographie des impressions espagnoles des Pays-Bas Méridionaux, 72. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of button and loop closures. Title on spine in old ink; raised bands and remnants of a paper spine-label. Interior waterstaining and many pages dog-eared; half-title and title-page missing pieces, not affecting any text. Library stamp on title-page partially eradicated; charming old (20th-century) private bookplate inside front cover. (20850)
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