•  Palau 259438. Folded as issued.

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No copy traced via WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE.

•  Light waterstain criscrossing text; one pin-type wormhole in left margin and many, very small ones in lower margin, occasionally into lower four lines of text not costing any words. Good++ copy.  (30891)

The facsimile was limited to 252 copies, of which 218 were sold by subscription while the remaining 34 were destined for national libraries, collaborating scholars, and special individuals (identified in the limitation statement). This is copy 88 of the 218 subscription copies.

•  Palau 70182.   Full brown morocco, spine gilt with neat lettering, two rolls, and devices in compartments; covers with double-fillet gilt border (a small portion of this lost on front cover, corners bumped and a little rubbed). Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Original front wrapper bound in. A very pleasing copy of a handsome homage.  (29223)

Provenance:  19th-century ink inscriptions on front free endpaper of Antonio Billara at Puebla on 11 September 1874 and of Ignacio Feyes, also at Puebla, on 25 December 1667 (obviously not the actual date).

Evidence of Readership: Amanuscript oration in a third hand is pasted onto the second plate verso; a tracing of the final page in pencil is left unfinished on the endpaper following; and Billara's hand seems to have transcribed the beginning of the title on the final endpaper verso.

WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate just four copies in the U.S.

•  Palau 123524n; Medina, Mexico, 3374. On the author, see: Beristain, III, p. 69.   Later 18th-century calf, each board framed by a gilt foliate roll, title gilt directly on spine with bands also gilt, all edges yello w; boards scuffed and rubbed especially at edges and joints starting, 19th-century endpapers with front ones chipping at edges. Blank back of the woodcut of St. Joseph stuck to blank verso of title-page, covering an early manuscript note now faded; foxing throughout and one noticeable inkstain; tear in lower corner of one leaf and another lower corner torn away. Occasionalannotations, underlining, and censoring, as above. A less than ideal copy as to its physical state, but with its signs of use also of interest — and a difficult book to find in any condition.  (31196)

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The work is illustrated with a frontispiece and three copper-engraved plates done by Louis le Grand after designs by Gravelot.

•  Sabin 20201; Palau 73986; LeClerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 3180; Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes, 1003–04.   Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; corners, joints, and spine extremities rubbed, spine with two pinpoint holes and surface cracks to leather. Front free endpaper partially separated, with pencilled annotation on verso; inner margins of one plate and opposing page with small area of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, pages otherwise clean. All edges marbled in blue. An attractive copy.  (25799)

Presented here is Gómez Farías’ side of things, in a very uneditorialized manner.

At the top of the title-page: “Juicio de imprenta.”

• Sewn as issued, lacking front wrapper but rear one present. A good+ copy.

This version is based on the 1750 edition with Latin text by German priest Franz Xavier Dornn and emblematic plates by Joseph Sebastian (1710–68) and Johann Baptist Klauber (1712–87), engravers to the Archbishop of Augsburg. Translated into Spanish by a “devotee” (Joseph Gomez y Miquel), with a Latin index, it is interleaved with57 full-page woodcut Marian emblems by [Ignatio?] Lucchesini after the Klauber brothers' originals, and one unsignedfull-page engraved plate of Josepha Crespi, Marquesa de Peñafuente, in prayer facing the translator's dedication to her. Each emblem features an inscriptio (invocation); the figure of the Virgin with attributes relating to the invocation; pictura (scenes) below; and a biblical quotation at the base of the image — i.e., “the formal structure of acanonical tripartite emblem” (Amaral).

Different states of this edition are known to exist, with variants in spelling, type, punctuation, and various title-page vignettes; this copy opens with awoodcut emblem framed by verses from Psalms 34 and 70. The title-page is printed in red and black, with a small circular woodcut device.

Marks of ownership: Early ink scribblings and calligraphy practice on rear endpaper verso and pastedown reading “Libro de los min[istr]os”; “La escuela de Fierra”; “Lo hizo Ezequiel/ Plaza Vecino/ de Corrales/ Año de 1825"; and a child's ownership signature in pencil, “Benito Cuchio”.

Scarce: Searches of NUC Pre-1956 and WorldCat locatejust two copies in the U.S., at the Newberry and the Marian Library (Dayton).

•  Palau 75760. On the Litany of Loreto, see: R. Amaral, Jr., “Bibliography of the Litany of Loretto Illustrated with Emblematic Plates by the Brothers Klauber, of Augsburg, or After Them,” in the Society for Emblem Studies Newsletter, Num. 48 (Jan. 2011), pp. 10-15; and NCE, VIII, 790-91 (Litany of Loreto).   Contemporary vellum with early ink title on spine and traces of four ties; vellum cockled and dust-soiled with a few small stains on rear cover. Small tear in outer margin of one leaf, mild to moderate foxing throughout keeping mostly to margins, one leaf with evidence of an old spill, and some marginal waterstaining to a handful of leaves. A work of devotional, literary, and artistic interest, printed by a woman's shop andUNUSUAL.  (30969)

Cholera became a serious problem in Mexico City and in several other places in the country in the wake of the Mexican–American War. Dr. Duck says of his reasons for writing this opusculum of medical advice, “solo me ha impulsado el deseo que tengo de auxiliar á una Nacion que me es querida.” Very rare.

•  Sutro 858; not in Palau. Author not in: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica; or Diccionario Porrúa de historia, biografía y geografía de México (5a ed.).   Fine condition; sewn in original cream-colored printed wrappers with elaborate, ornamental borders on both covers. Wrappers very lightly soiled; a clean, untattered copy.  (26603)

Binding:  Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations; all edges saffron and speckled brown.

•  Palau 77408.   Bound as above, joints and extremities a bit rubbed and back cover with small area of insect damage. Most pages clean; some lightly age-toned or faintly spotted. A pretty thing in pleasing condition.  (29249)

No copy traced via WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE; there is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched.

•  Waterstain from inner margin into text covering perhaps 30% of each leaf, degree variable; perhaps a dozen words on p. 3 poorly inked. A good+ copy.  (30887)

The Comunero Revolt in Argentina (ca. 1723–35) was a prolonged episode of uprising against the colonial government by residents in northeastern Argentina (Corrientes) and an adjacent part of Paraguay who felt marginalized by the Jesuit domination of the Guarani Indian labor pool and the Society of Jesus’s near monopoly of the yerba mate and tobacco trade with Buenos Aires.

•  Very good condition. Margins a little irregular; paper a little rumpled. Written in a clear, easy to read hand.  (24647)

This offering contains original documents touching on many of these and other matters.

Printing seems to have arrived in El Salvador in 1825, placing this in the first decade of that art there.

Apparently rare: We trace no copy via NUC Pre-1956, WorldCat, CCILA, or METABASE.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. A few small holds from insect damage, a few of the few repaired with archival tissue. Old bibliographical notations in pencil in margins. Light waterstaining in upper outer corner.  (25791)

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•  Written in a small notarial hand and slightly difficult to read. All edges tattered with some loss of paper and of an occasional word or end of word, not impairing sense.

•  Sabin 23225; not in Shoemaker. Period-style quarter tan cloth with paper-covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page and a few others rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution; title-page with inner margin repaired. Mild to moderate foxing throughout.

•  Very good condition. Written in a clear, non-notarial hand.  (31212)

Provenance: Bookseller’s ticket of the “Livraria de Braamcamp-Freire” on front pastedown.

•  Palau 91083. Speckled sheep; spine with double gilt rules above and below each band, second compartment with a brown leather label, gilt-lettered, and the rest with a gilt diamond-shaped floral device. Leather abraded with some loss at head and foot of spine and on edges of covers. Browning from turn-ins and some little tears or chipping to endpapers. Interior generally clean with occasional fine spotting.

The volume ends with a “Corona Florida a la Santisima Trinidad,” being a small literary collection of coplas, canciones, and a romance “en Metafora del Sol, que discurre por los doce signos del Zodiaco.”

Binding: Publisher's mottled sheep, gilt spine extra. Marbled endpapers; all edges red.

•  Medina, Mexico, 8016.   Binding lightly worn. A few gatherings starting to extrude. A very good, clean copy.  (26851)

Interest in learning Spanish increased in the U.S. in the 1790s as commerce with Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and even Spain became a practical matter after Spain opened some ports to foreign commerce.

Searches of WorldCat and ESTC locate fewer than 10 U.S. institutions reporting ownership of this work. Needless to say, early school books suffered at the hands of children, one of the great enemies of books.

•  Not in Parsons. Evans 33731; ESTC W13901.   Publisher’s sheep; back cover damaged with loss of leather; text foxed and stained, with dampstaining. Far from a pristine copy but acceptable for such a scarce book.  (31031)

This poem in praise of Bolivar seems to have been penned following the final defeat of the Peruvian Royalist forces at Ayachuco (December 9, 1824). The versions appearing in later anthologies differ noticeably in length and content from this first edition.

We traceno copy of this first edition via NUC, WorldCat, Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, COPAC, or the OPAC of the Spanish National Library. The Colombian National Library holds two copies (both miscatalogued as having 6 pages and the BNC digitized version showing '”pp. 5 & 6" to be a leaf from a totally different poem).

•  Pilar Jaramillo de Zuleta, La producción intelectual de los rosaristas, 1700–1799: catálogo bibliográfico, p. 56.   Folded as issued. Small piece torn from upper margin of first leaf, not near any text. A very good copy.  (30384)

The five articles go so far as to proclaim that sharing of bad news is treason and punishable as such.

•  One fold.

•  Written in a very clear hand, with the paper and wax seal below the king’s signature (wax desicated and paper loose, but present). Two blank leaves at end. Very good condition.