18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Cortes's Stirring Letters
in French 
Cortés, Hernán. Correspondance de Fernand Cortès avec l'empereur Charles Quint sur la conquête du Mexique. Francfort: J.J. Kesler, 1779. 8vo. xvi, 471 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Sabin 16953. Contemporary treed calf, front joint (outside) starting at top to open. A good+ copy — in fact, a rather nice one. (20510)
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“Yesterday
Morning We Quitted
Schaffhausen
. . . ”Coxe, William. Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland; in a series of letters to William Melmoth ... second edition. London: J. Dodsley, 1780. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). viii, 474, [2] pp.
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[Cramer, Johann Andreas], ed.
Allgemeines Gesangbuch, auf königlichen allergnädigsten Befehl
zum öffentlichen und haüslichen Gebrauche in den Gemeinen des Herzogthums
Schleswig.... Altona: Eckhardt, 1781. 8vo (17.3 cm, 6.875"). [10] ff., 1008
pp., [14] ff. [bound with] [Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche
Schleswig-Holsteins]. Liturgy and ritual. Biblisches und Geistreiches
Gebet-Buch.... Altona: Burmester, [after 1766]. 8vo. 96 pp. [bound with]
[Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Schleswig-Holsteins]. Liturgy
and ritual. Die Collecten, Episteln und Evangelia auf alle Sonn- und Fest-Tage
durchs ganze Jahr. Nebst beygefügter Historie vom Leiden und Sterben
Jesu Christi.... Altona: Burmester, [1781]. 96 pp. 
Edited by Johann Andreas Cramer (1723–88), a poet, hymnographer, and theologian at the Christian Albrecht's University of Kiel, the hymnal's text is printed in fraktur, with a title-page vignette showing the royal cipher of Christian VII of Denmark and with a few woodcut tailpieces, one handsomely showing the royal arms of Denmark, including Schleswig and Holstein.
Provenance: Bookplate: "Aus der Bibliothek von Oskar Hagen;" Ink inscription opposite the title-page, noting the volume's donation in honor of Thura Niemann, d. 1870.
• Contemporary black sheep; covers modestly decorated in blind with a ruled border, tiny roundels at corners, and strokes resembling stitching at spine. Worn with a little leather lost at spine and corners; front joint opening. All edges gilt and gauffered; wallpaper style endpapers. A shaken volume: Some quires coming loose and some page corners bumped with loss of gilding. Pages shaved, just touching running heads in some places; all pages lightly age-toned but otherwise clean, save small light stain to title-page and darker one to p. 319 of first work. Pressed leaf laid in.
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Full Set of Her Works, IncludingVillancicos in Nahuatl & an African Language Cruz, Juana Inés de la, Sister. Poemas de la unica poetisa americana, musa dezima, Soror Juana Ines de la Cruz ... Tercera edicion, corregida, y añadida por su authora. [with others, as below]. Barcelona: por Joeph Llopis, 1691. 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). [8] ff., 426 pp., [5] ff. [with the same author's] Segundo tomo de las obras de Soror Juana Ines de la Cruz. Madrid: Impr. de Angel Pasqual Rubio, 1725. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [4] ff., 438 pp., [3] ff. [with the same author's] Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, dezima musa, poetisa americana. Madrid: Impr. de Angel Pasqual Rubio, 1725. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [10] ff., 352 pp., [2] ff.
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For a sense of her range of subjects, click to enlarge our images. She invented a decasyllabic meter and cultivated dramatic poetry: Among her works are sonnets, redondillas, décimas, villancicos, and plays, as well as prose works, including the famous Carta athenagorica in which she criticizes the great Luso-Brazilian preacher and defender of the Brazilian Indians, Antônio Vieira. The contents here are mostly Spanish-language, but some portions are in Latin — and a few, as is seldom recognized, are in the black language of “Guinea” (e.g., Villancico VIII of the “Villancicos que se cantaron en la Sta. Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico en honor de Maria Santissima Madre de Dios . . . y se imprimieron año de 1679") or in Nahuatl (e.g., Villancico V of the “Villancicos que se cantaron en la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico, en honor de Maria Santissima Madre de Dios . . . año de 1687, en que se imprimieron”).
In the offering here, vol. I was printed during the great poet's lifetime, and is one of the last to hold that distinction. 
With slight faults only, this is a handsome set of this major writer's works. (26753)
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“Well . . . What says my Daughter?” Cumberland, Richard. The brothers. A comedy, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. London: W. Griffin, 1770. 8vo. v, [3], 72 pp.
surely-emblematic title vignette of a ship about to be wrecked on a rocky coast engraved by J. Taylor after the drawing of A. Alcock.
• Very good; disbound from a nonce volume with signatures starting to separate. One page faintly stamped by a now-defunct library. (1478)
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Augsburg ConfessionCyprian, Ernst Salomon. Historia der Augspurgischen confession, auf gnädigsten Befehl des Durchlauchtigsten Fürsten und Herrn, herrn Friedrichs des Andern, hertzogens zu Sachsen-Gotha aus dem original-acten beschrieben. Gotha: J.A. Reyher, 1730. 4to. 24, 227, 224 p.
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the title-page image for an enlargement. The main title-page is printed in black and red, the text in black letter (i.e., gothic, fraktur) and the footnotes in roman.
• Contemporary vellum over paste boards; later paper spine label with hand lettering; small area of lower spine with black spots. Vellum loosening at the turn-ins. Board edges soiled. Few stray stains in some margins. Private bookplate.
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