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WORLD HISPANICA — Una miscelánea
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Dávalos, Juan Eusebio. [drop-title] Relacion de los servicios del general Don Juan Eusebio Davalos, cavallero del orden de Alcantara, los de su padre, y antepassados. [Madrid, 1743]. Folio. [2] ff.
• Palau 259438. Folded as issued.
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“Tell Us About MEXICO, Where
MAXIMILIAN Now Lives” De Bussierre, Marie Théodore Renouard, vicomte de. L'empire mexicain histoire des toltèques des chichimeques des aztèques et de la conquete espagnole. Paris: Henri Plon, 1863. Small 8vo. [2] ff., 427 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. The latter part of the book offers a very brief recounting of Javier Mina, the War for Texas independence, and the U.S. intervention in the 1840s and consequent loss of California, New Mexico, etc. to the U.S.
Provenance: From the collection of Alberto Pareño, with his initials at the base of the spine.
• Sabin 9561; Palau 37698; Bernal 4295. 20th-century red cloth, with original green printed wrappers bound in. Occasional light foxing. (21371)
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Constitutions
of theSpanish
Discalced CarmelitesDiscalced Carmelites (Spanish Congregation). Constitutiones fratrum discalceatorum beatissimae virginis Mariae de Monte Carmelo....congregationis hispaniae.... Matriti: Ex officina Josephi Doblado, 1787. 8vo. (18.3 cm, 7.125"). xiii, [1] pp., [3] ff., 412 pp. 
This has a lovely title-page device of the Virgin and Child.
Rare: A search of NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, and RLIN revealed only two U.S. copies.
• Palau 58873. Contemporary vellum with inked title on spine: a few holes and some staining to vellum; paper label at base of spine. Hinges (inside) open. Some tattering and a little worming to endpapers; i Interior generally clean with occasional small spots of foxing. Paper label, with rubber-stamped numeral thereon, affixed to front free endpaper. Inked ownership inscription on title-page; rubber-stamps, including one on title-page.
Gómez Farías as
SlandererDocumentos relativos al promovido por el Sr. D. Eustaquio Barron contra Benito Gómez Farías. Mexico : Impr. de José Mariano Fernandez de Lara, 1856. Small 8vo. 56 pp.
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.
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Presidents
Archbishops Foreign Relations (Ecuador). A small collection of 13 items. Guayaquil, Quito, San José, & Lima, 1834-57.
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The Battle of KalloEfetos de las armas españolas del Rey Catolico nuestro señor, en Flandes, contra los exercitos de Francia, y Olanda, en la campaña, deste año de 1638. Madrid: En la Imprenta del Reyno, 1636. Folio (28.2 cm, 11.1"). 10 ff.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Palau 78542. Removed from a nonce volume; creased. Title-page with inner margin reinforced. Pages somewhat unevenly age-toned; trimmed closely, in some cases just touching outermost letters. Last leaf with tear from lower margin extending into text, and with small holes along creases.
One That Got Away!Eguiara y Eguren, Juan José de. Selectae dissertationes mexicanae ad scholasticam spectantes theologiam tribus tomis distinctae. Tomus primus continet tractatus, I de Deo ut Uno & ejus attributis. II de Augustissimae trinitatis mysterio. III de SS. deigenitricis sponso Josepho. Tomus secundus complectitur tractatus, IV de libertate creata. V de ente supernaturali. VI de gratia auxiliante. VII de justificatione. Tomus tertius exhibet tractatus, VIII de voluntate divina. IX de divinis decretis. X de systemate dominicae incarnationis. XI de praedestinatione & reprobatione. XII theojuridicos offert titulos sex: de donationibus, de compensationibus, de actione Pauliana, de crimine laesae majestatis, de confiscatione, de vectigalibus. Mexici: Typis viduae Josephi Bernardi de Hogal, 1746. Folio (30 cm; 11.75"). [33] ff., 506 pp., [5] ff. 
Click the image to the left or rightThe Selectae dissertationes mexicanae was planned as a three-volume work but only this volume was published, the other two having been left in manuscript. It was printed by the widow Hogal, who continued to maintain the high standards of printing that she established with her husband; more than one bibliographer has compared the Hogal output favorably with that of the best European contemporaries. The title-page is in black and red with the text in double-column format in roman and italic, and the whole has decent margins. The volume was intended as a university level text for the study of certain theological concepts.
Provenance: Marca de fuego on top and bottom edges of the closed volume of the “Convento Grande de Nuestra Señora de la Merced” in Mexico City.
Very uncommon. We trace only one copy in the U.S., at the University of Texas.
• Medina, Mexico, 3763 Palau 78637; Beristain, I, 216–21. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of button and loop ties. Marca de fuego as noted previously. Some worming into text on pages 361–94, costing letters but not impairing sense.
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Chile, 1593 — A
Woman Presses Her CaseEscobedo, Francisca de. Two documents signed. In Spanish, on paper. Santiago, Chile, 7 January 1593. Folio, [2] pp.
Click the image to the left • 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.
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TellingSpanish
Americans about América
Everett, Alexander Hill. América: O examen general de la situacion política de las diferentes potencias del continente occidental, con conjeturas sobre su suerte futura. Northampton: Simeon Butler, 1828. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). [4], 296 (i.e., 294) pp. (pagination skips from 274 to 276, text complete).
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• 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.
He
Conspired toAssassinate
Vicente Guerrero
Facio, José
Antonio. Memoria que sobre los sucesos del tiempo de su ministerio,
y sobre la causa intentada contra los cuatro ministros del Excelentísimo
Señor Vice-presidente don Anastasio Bustamante, presenta a los mejicanos,
el General Ex-Ministro de Guerra y Marina. [bound with another related publication,
as below]. Paris: Imprenta de Moquet y Compa., 1835. 8vo. 245, viii, 6 pp.,
[2] ff. .
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Two major and scarce publications related to Facio's role in the assassination of Vicente Guerrero: one his defense, written while in exile in Paris; the other the facts as presented by Congressman Quitana Roo to the national assembly.
Provenance: Ownership stamp on first title-page of the great 19th-century collector Jose Fernando Ramirez.
• Late 19th-century Mexican half brown calf binding with black textured sides. Leather dry, front joint (outside) cracked. Texts are uncut, and clean. (21511)
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In Defense of
ModerationFeijoo, Benito Jerónimo. Ilustracion apologetica al primero, y segundo tomo del Theatro critico.... Quarta impression. Madrid: Por los herederos de Francisco del Hierro, 1737. 4to (20.3 cm, 8"). [16] ff., 207, [1 (blank)] pp.
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.
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Summary
of Facts, 1777Fernández
de Uribe, José Patricio. Sermon de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
de México, que predicado en su santuario el año de 1777 dia 14 de
diciembre en la solemne fiesta con que su ilustre congregacion celebra su aparicion
milagrosa. Mexico: Oficina de don Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros,
1801. 4to. [4] ff., 26, 129, [1 (blank) pp. 
Click the interior images for enlargements. A
very important source.
Provenance: Bookplate (early 19th-century) of Dr. Don Victoriano de las Fuentes.
• Burrus & Grajales 295 & 296; Medina, Mexico,
9428; Palau 89823. Contemporary acid-stained sheep, round spine gilt extra,
marbled endpapers. Two small stains in lower margins of leaves, not touching
text. Small piece cut from bottom blank areas of title-page and a text leaf.
A
very good copy.
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Napoleon,
Again Fernández,
Manuel. Broadside. Begins: "Ciudadanos. Es llegado ya el momento en que
el heroico pueblo Español...." [Cardona, 1823]. Folio. [1] f.
The five articles go so far as to proclaim that sharing of bad news is treason and
punishable as such.
• One fold.
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The
King Aids a WidowFernando
VII, King of Spain. Document
Signed (“Yo El Rey”), on paper, in Spanish. “En Palacio”
[i.e., Madrid], 1 March 1815. Folio (29.8 cm, 12.75"), 4 pp.
• 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.
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