NEW & OLD
WORLD HISPANICA — Una miscelánea
NEW & OLD
WORLD 
Otomí by a
Native-Speaker 
Neve y Molina, Luis de. Reglas de orthographia, diccionario,
y arte del idioma othomi. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. Small 8vo. [12] ff., 160 pp., engr. leaf of errata, lacks the engr. frontis.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Medina, Mexico, 5174; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 55; Viñaza 356; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., II, 2154; Sabin 52413; Palau 190159. Original limp vellum, cockled and a little shrunken, a significant “L-shaped” piece of vellum torn and missing from front cover. Foremargins of front free endpaper, front fly-leaf, title-page, and first leaf of introduction torn with loss of paper and of small portion of title-page border and of a very few letters of the first two pages of the introduction; wormhole in early leaves costing a few letters. Lacks the engraved frontispiece. Not unblemished, but certainly a good copy of an important and scarce text. (22168)
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Imperial
Troops Enter Naples
(Newsletter —
Austrian Charles Is Crowned King). Relazione
della gloriosa entrata dell'armi cesaree in questo regno, e città di
Napoli. Sotto la condotta dell'Ecc. Signor Giorgio Adamo conte di Martinitz,
plenipotenziario cesareo in Italia, e vice-rè in questo regno per la
maesta' di Carlo III. d'Austria nostro glorioso monarca, e comandante dal signor
generale conte di Daun. Napoli: Presso Dom. Antonio
Parrino, e Michele-Luigi Muzio,1707. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). [2] ff.
This
item is rare: No copies were found in OCLC, RLIN, or NUC Pre-1956.
• Removed from a nonce volume; without wrappers. Uncut. A few very light spots of foxing. In excellent shape.
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[drop-title] Relacion diaria, desde que el rey nvestro señor Don
Phelipe
Quinto (que Dios guarde) saliò de esta Corte.... [Spain, December 1710].
Small 4to. 8 pp.
• Palau 259184. Recent cloth.
An Attractive SetNúñez de Haro y Peralta, Alonso. Sermones escogidos, pláticas espirituales privadas, y dos pastorales, anteriormente impresas en México.... Madrid: En la imprenta de la hija de Ibarra, 1806. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). 3 vols. I: Frontis., [2], xvii, [1], 408, [4] pp. II: [2], 355, [5 (index)] III: [4], 336 (i.e., 338), [2 (index)] pp.
Single-click any image where the hand appears on• Palau 197255; Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 6093. Contemporary treed sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels and gilt-stamped decorations and volume numbers; corners and extremities slightly rubbed, boards with some scuffs and scrapes. Title-pages with decorative “BR” monogram stamp. Moderate offsetting to a number of pages in vol. I and a few in vol. II; occasional light spotting throughout. All edges speckled.
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Núñez, Ignacio Benito. Noticias historicas de la Republica Argentina. Obra postuma del Sr. D. Ignacio Nuñez. Dedicada al Sr. Dr. D. Valentin Alsina...por el hijo del autor, D. Julio Nuñez. Buenos Aires: Impr. de Mayo, 1857. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 vol. I: [2] ff., iv, iv, 365 pp. II: 115 pp. [bound with] Trabajos literarios. Buenos Aires: Impr. de Mayo, 1857. 8vo. 81 pp.
Provenance: Partially erased presentation inscription on first title-page from Julio Núñez, dated 1862.
Both works are scarce in U.S. libraies.
• Palau 196836, 196837, 196838. On Núñez, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 665, frames 235-248. Mid-19th-century quarter cloth with marbled paper sides, spine discolored. Private ownership stamps.
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Another 
Spanish Newsletter — Rare(Oran). [drop-title] Relacion de el feliz triunfo y sucesso, que las armas catholicas
de España, han conseguido contra los infieles en la plaza de Oran, el dia
19. de abril de el presente año de 1733. [colophon: Zaragoza: Francisco
Revilla, 1733]. 8vo. [2] ff.
• Palau 259382. Leaves detached and reattached; some dampstaining and age-toning.
Fierce
Fighting Recounted
(Oran,
Capture of). [drop-title]
Relacion de lo sucedido en las dos funciones, que en el dia 21. y 23. de Noviembre
de 1732. tuvo la guarnicion de Oràn con el exercito de los turcos, y
moros, que la sitiavan. [colophon: Zaragoza: Juan Malo, {1732}]. Small 4to.
8 pp. 
• Not in Palau. Leaves are detached; inner margins discolored and showing silverfish damage.
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Woman & Her WoesOriguela, Elvira de, & others. Manuscript documents. On paper, in Spanish. Los Reyes [i.e., Lima], Peru, and Seville, Spain, 23 April 1620 – 26 November 1662. 4 cahiers. Folio (31.5 cm; 12.5"). 7, [1 (blank)] ff; 5, [1 (blank)] ff.; 12 ff.; 16, [4 (blank)] ff.
• Sewn. All four in very good condition.
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Distinctive Production — Happy Occasion Osorio, Diego. Estabilidad, y firmeza de la Santa Escuela de Christo Sr. Nro. con authoridad apostolica y ordinaria en el convento de N. S. P. Sr. San Francisco de Mexico. . . . [Mexico]: Impr. del Empedradillo, [1756]. Small 4to. [16] ff., 26 pp.
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several instances of poetry.
• Medina, Mexico, 4347. Removed from a nonce volume; faint marcas de fuego in upper and lower margins. In-text worming, with loss of a few words. In recent wrappers. (21009)
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