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NEW & OLD
WORLD 
HE Certainly Didn't
“Expect The Spanish Inquisition” 
Madrid shaver's singular adventures and wonderful escape from the Spanish Inquisition. A true story. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, n.d. [ca. 1840?]. 12mo. 24 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2M9198. Uncut, unopened. Folded as issued. Two long tears into text on two different leaves, repaired with archival tissue. Good+ copy. (17506)
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Cardinal-Infante
FERDINAND
is on
THE MOVEManifiesto del serenissimo Infante Cardenal, publicado en Mons en el pais de Henao a los cinco de julio de mil y seiscientos y treinta y seis: con la entrada que hizieron las armas catolicas en Francia, y presa de la Capela. Madrid: Por Maria de Quiñones, 1636. Folio (28.2 cm, 11.1"). [4] ff.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Palau 148579; Almirante, Bibliografía militar de España, 471. Removed from a nonce volume. Shadow of pencilled numeral in upper outer corner of title-page. Pages browned, with waterstaining to inner corners.
Dad Helped with Expenses Martagon, Fernando. Manual de exercicios espirituales para practicar los santos desagravios de Christo Señor Nuestro. Mexico: Reimpreso ... Por Don Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1782. 12mo (13 cm; 5"). [10] ff., 232 pp., plt.
Click the images for enlargements. 
designed for personal use, hence the small format allowing one to carry it with one. Publication of this edition was at the expense of the author's father.
Preceding p.1 of the text is apowerfully executed unsigned copper-plate engraving of Christ Crucified.
All editions are lightly held in U.S. libraries, and of this edition searches of WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 find no copies in the U.S.
Provenance: Ownership signature at base of title-page, “Felipe Neri Garcia.”
• Medina, Mexico, 7319. Contemporary vellum over light paste boards; green silk place marker. Very old tan liquid stain at rear of volume, well-spread but light. Solid and good copy. (29106)
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The
“Light of Catholic
Truths” Comes
to Spain
— RARE
Martínez
de la Parra, Juan. Luz de verdades catholicas,
y explicacion de la doctrina christiana. Que segun la costumbre de la Casa Professa
de la Compañia de Jesus de Mexico, todos los jueves del año se
platica en su iglesia. Sevilla: Por Juan Francisco de Blas, 1699. 4to (20 cm;
7.75"). [14] ff., plt., 400 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 
this
is the first Spanish printing of any volume of Luz de verdades.
Vols. II and III were also published by Blas also in 1699 (unknown to Palau),
but apparently as stand-alone volumes that are so catalogued by the only library
reporting ownership of all three — the library of the Universidad de La
Laguna on the island of Tenerife. Columbia University reports owning vol. I
and the Lilly vol. III, with no other library reporting owning any volumes of
this edition.
The
plate is an etching of St. Francis Xavier. The title-page
is printed in black and red with a handsome border of printer's ornaments.
• Palau 155512; Beristain, IV, 107; Alden & Landis 699/145; DeBacker-Sommerogel, V, 636. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties, light wear and typical stains to binding; rextblock separating slightly at the title-page. Light scattered dust-soiling, light age-toning; foxing in some margins and occasionally into text, with scattered round stains on several leaves as from a glass, cup, or other cylinder. Minor worming with tasteful early repairs. Really, a darned good copy of a rare book. (29667)
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Continental Blind-Embossed Binding Martínez Villergas, Juan. Juicio crítico de los poetas españoles contemporáneos. Paris: Libr. Rosa y Bouret, 1854. 12mo (17 cm; 6.75"). [2] ff., 285, [1] pp., [1] f.
Binding: Full green calf, covers elaborately blind-embossed using the same plaque for both covers. Round spine with gilt ruling, gilt title, and gilt center devices in compartments; all edges marbled.
• Palau 156283. Binding as above, a little rubbed, some loss of gilt; front free endpaper with a patch of abrasion. Signature on verso of title-page. The usual scattered foxing. (28726)
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Eye-Witness to
Many Events Described Marure, Alejandro. Bosquejo histórico de las revoluciones de Centro-America. Desde 1811 hasta 1834. Guatemala: Tip. de “El Progreso”, 1877–1878. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. I: 191, [1 (blank), LII (documents) pp., [3] ff. II: 143, [1 (blandk)], LIX, [1 (blank)] pp., [3] ff.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Late 19th-century quarter red morocco, plain style, with marbled–paper covered boards. Leather lightly scuffed in places. All edges marbled to match endpapers. Occasional pencilling. (24596)
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Sugar Castles & Fruit Fantasias
Mata, Juan de la. Arte de reposteria, en que se contiene todo gènero de hacer dulces secos, y en lìquido, vizcochos, turrones, natas: Bebidas heladas de todos generos, rosolis, mistelas, &c. con una breve instruccion para conocer las frutas, y servirlas crudas. Madrid: Josef Herrera, 1786. 4to. [2] ff., 208 pp.
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Lord
Save Us — An
AttractiveSMALL
Broadside(Medical
Prayer). Broadside.
Begins: "Deprecacion contra la peste. Al divino rostro." [Mexico City, ca. 1830–50].
12mo (165 x 112 mm; 6.5" x 4.5). [1] f.
worried
devout.
• Slightly irregular margins, as issued. Handsome.
Standard
& Ground
(or Wave?)-BreakingMedina, Pedro de. Arte del navigare. Venetia: Appresso Tomaso Baglioni, 1609. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). A4 b4 2A8 B–Q8 R10; [7], [1 (blank)], 137, [1 (blank)] ff.; illus. 
Also
included is a woodcut map showing Europe, the Atlantic, and the New World.
• Palau 159680; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 609/77; Medina, BHA, 123. Old vellum; red leather, gilt-lettered spine label; some staining, and chipping to edges and label. Old, careful repairs to interior worming occasionally cost individual letters (but never sense) or a little loss to an illustration. Old rubber-stamps and red and black ownership label on title-page; inked notations on title-page and front pastedown. All edges speckled red.
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Presentation
Copy
Fit
for a QueenMelgarejo
y Salafranca, José, Conde del Valle de San Juan.
Consideraciones sobre la iglesia en sus relaciones con la sociedad... Obra dedicada
a S.M. el Rey. Madrid: Zacarias Soler, 1851. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). [6], 316, [2] pp.;
1 plt.
• First edition of this uncommon defense of the Church and its involvement
with contemporary politics. The work is preceded by a portrait of the Count,
here depicted in his study, with cigarette in hand.
Binding:
Signed binding (with Bilbao’s ticket on front pastedown) of oxblood
morocco, front and back covers framed in a wide gilt roll surrounding gilt-stamped
coat of arms of Francesco de Assisi de Bourbon, Duc de Cadiz (consort to Isabella
II of Spain); spine with four raised bands, compartments gilt extra, with
author, title, and date gilt-stamped. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls;
all page edges gilt; blue moiré endpapers.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Maria Christina, Queen of Spain.
• Palau 350495. Binding as above, showing light wear, spine slightly
faded; pastedowns with some offsetting, endpapers with spots of foxing. 
Rare
and attractive.
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Mercedarians in Lima — 1804Mercedarians.
Third Order. Breve compendio de las reglas, constituciones,
privilegios, gracias é indulgencias, de la Real Tercera Orden de Nra. Sra.
de la Merced, nuevamente restablecida en la iglesia del convento grande de S.
Miguel de Lima.... Lima, [1804]. 4to (19.8 cm, 7.75"). [33] ff. 
This document gives the rules, constitutions, privileges, and indulgences of the third order in Lima on the occasion of its reestablishment at the conventual church of St. Michael. A fine woodcut of the arms of the Mercedarian order, surrounded by a typographic border, graces the verso of the title-leaf.
This is the first edition of the Breve compendio; it was reprinted in 1870.
• Medina, Lima, 1945. Limp vellum lightly cockled and a little stained/soiled, with small hole to front cover from a defect in the skin; traces of adhesive on covers and a small paper label on front one. One small wormhole piercing margin of some leaves; traces of soiling and very light waterstaining. Library bookplate and personal rubber-stamp on front pastedown; old call number neatly penned (and crossed out) on title-page verso.
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