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THE PHILIPPINES
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)
The
Beginning of
Demographic
Studies
Botero,
Giovanni. Relaciones universales del
mundo ... primera y segunda parte. Valladolid: Impresso por los herederos de
Diego Fernandez de Cordoua, 1603–1599. Folio (27 cm; 10.5"). [4], 207,
110 ff. (without final blank and without the maps).
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the
Philippines, Japan, and Southeast Asia, but also England,
Scotland, Ireland, and “the realm of Prester John.” More than a
few scholars view this as one of the first demographic studies.
ABCs around the WORLD — Illustrated Diderot, Denis. Caractères et alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes (Extracted from the Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers). [Paris: ca. 1750–72]. Folio (30.5 cm, 12"). 24 double-p. plts. (of 25).
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24
double-spread engraved plates of alphabets for various languages.
They were engraved for the article on alphabets in the Diderot Encyclopédie,
a massive 20-year project aiming to encompass every branch of human knowledge
that was a landmark of Enlightenment-era philosophy, attacking superstition
while promoting science, rationality, and scholarship. Many of the volumes were
supplemented with illustrations, such as the plates present here, designed to
facilitate comparing and contrasting the alphabets and basic writing conventions
of “dead and living” languages.
Languages charted in these tables include “Tartares Mouantcheoux,” Tamoul, Telongou, Persian (ancient and modern), Armenian, Russian (ancient and modern), Coptic, Hebrew, etc., with the engraving done by master artisan Robert Bénard (fl. 1750–85).
• Half green calf with green marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; slight wear to corners and spine extremities. Lacking one plate (#25); another with a small hole outside image and a circlet of darkening around that, from a cigarette ash (#6). Light soiling and spots, a corner or two a little chipped or bent; a handsome gathering. (24823)
China New
Mexico &
Other Exotic
Lands
González
de Mendoza, Juan. Dell' Historia della China, descritta dal
P. Gio. Gonzalez di Mendozza dell'Ord. di S. Agost. nella lingua spagnuola.
Et tradotta nell'Italiana dal Magn. M. Francesco Avanzo, cittadino originario
di Venezia. Roma: Appresso Giovanni Martinelli, 1586. 4to (21.5 cm; 8.5") [8]
ff., 379, [1 (blank)] pp., [16] ff. (lacking pp. 263–66).
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In any case, this work is a standard early European work on the history of China and of the European travellers and missionaries to it. The details are gleaned from previously published works but were augmented by some unpublished or oral sources.
For Americanists, pp. 301–79 are the most important, being Father Martin
Ignacio's account of his voyage from Spain to China by way of the Spanish
Main, Mexico,
and
the Philippines.
The pages on his time in Mexico include an important account of the Espejo
Expedition to and discovery of New Mexico.
Provenance: Ex–John Carter Brown Library, with its bookplate.
• Palau 105504; Adams G868; Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica,
10; Lowendahl 30; Sabin 27778 ; Leclerc 261; Alden & Landis, European
Americana, 586/34; Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 7j. 19th-century
half calf with sprinkled edges; interior with the usual browning and stains
that characterize 1580s editions printed at Rome, these varying by section
with the paper. Short closed tear to title-page and one leaf with lower corner
lost, taking a bit of lowest shouldernote; lacking pp. 263–66 (Franciscans
in China — an interesting omission/excision!). Library bookplate on
front pastedown with its small release stamps. 
Rather
a nice copy with distinguished provenance for the busted bibliophile.
(28311)
American Annexes, Illustrated Greater America [ — ]the latest acquired insular possessions. Boston: Perry Mason Co., 1900. 12mo. [4], 189, [5 (adv.)] pp.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth, front cover with palm tree vignette stamped in dark green and title in maroon, spine likewise.
• Binding as above, all but unworn. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription. Pages clean. (28950)
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