Handsomely printed on a single sheet, in two columns.

Rare: We fail to trace this piece of exile writing via OCLC, RLIN, NUC Pre-1956, or Palau.

•  In good/very good condition, save for short tears to margins. Good Venezuelan item.

•   Sabin 58295; Medina, BHA, 1245; Peeters-Fontainas 1029; Palau 209622. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt extra, with gilt-stamped leather title-label; corners, spine, and spine extremities a touch rubbed, otherwise pleasingly fresh. Front free endpaper with early inked inscription, front fly-leaf with early inked “Acto de contricion” affixed. Lacking additional engraved title-page. Final third of text block starting to pull away from spine, sewing still holding. Pages age-toned, with some instances of spotting and offsetting. All edges mottled to match binding.

The detailed title-page and beautiful full-page woodcut coat of arms are present. The printer has also employed various handsome woodcut head- and tailpieces at different points in the text.

•  Sutro 756 ("19p." being a typographical error for collation given here); not in Steele, Independent Mexico: A Collection of Mexican Pamphlets in the Bodleian Library. Folded and never sewn or bound; as issued.

•  Single sheet without the integral blank. Irregular margins. Very good condition.

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•  Palau 216717. Removed from a nonce volume. Light waterstaining, mostly to inner corners. Trimmed closely, with shouldernotes and first or last few letters shaved in some instances. One leaf with tear from upper margin extending into text, repaired some time ago, obscuring a few words.

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The marginal notes here are printed in French!

•  Palau 221179; Peeters-Fontainas 1056; Gallardo 3449; Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature 457. 19th-century calf, old style. Scuffed and abraded Text clean and tight.

. Front free endpapers starting to loosen and with a few tears in margins.

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•  Palau 221275; Sabin 60899.   Modern quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards, with red and green spine labels. A clean, very nice set, with only a bit of minor dampstaining and the odd spot or paper flaw in all the many volumes. All edges red.  (25829)

A minor observation on the printing: The paper used is wove, except that of pp. 21–24 which is fine quality laid; and p. 24 is misnumbered "17." One wonders if these pages are cancels. Not found via NUC, OCLC, or RLIN.

•  Posada, Bibliografía bogotana, 392. Modern marbled covered light boards. Brittle paper; small hole in final leaf costing two letters.

The king orders the bishops of the New World to see that the practice is ended.

This copy sent to the bishop of Guadalajara, Mexico.

•  Light waterstaining; one short fold tear and a small hole piercing the top line of text without loss of sense. Written in a small and legible hand.  (25890)

•  Uncut, unopened copy in later wrappers (which are tattered). Text block split in two: requires binding. Edges dog-eared, some dust-soiling.  (21470)

This book bears an ornate, emblematic engraved title-page, with portraits of St. Brendan and Boyl and more, and no fewer than 18 leaf-filling plates by Wolfgang Kilian. These plates, which mixfancy and realism in entirely engaging ways, include a portrait of Columbus, a scene of St. Brendan celebrating mass on the back of a whale, botanical images of the marvelous Peruvian potato, and numerous views of the missionaries’interaction with the natives, some friendly, and some not—the unfriendliest being notably violent and gory. Also, on p. 35–36 is given an example of purportednative American music, with both words and notation. This copy is one (probably the first) of two states of this sole edition (with only three leaves in the preliminaries), without the additional foldout plate found in some copies.

•  Alden & Landis, European Americana, 621/100; Sabin 63367; Palau 224762. Binding as above and shown at left (distortion noted), chipped on corners and at head and foot of spine. Small wormholes visible on inside of covers, running into margins of pages and plates, and a few closed tears, neither affecting print or plates. Engraved title remounted. Small stains, light spots of waterstaining, and light soiling. A very covetable illustrated Americanum of the early 17th century, in an enjoyable copy.

François Raymond Joseph de Pons (1751–1812) was archivist for the French Navy. This work also appeared in English, German, and Spanish editions; this is its first edition, and the sole French edition.

Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplates of Thomas Munro on front pastedowns. Unattributed note in pencil in top margin of half-title of vol. I (repeated in substance in the other volumes): “This was Talleyrand’s copy.”

This contemporary file copy was retained in Rome and signed “S. Card. S. Susannae” (i.e., Cardinal Scipione Cobelluzzi, who was also at this time the Librarian of the Vatican Library).

•  Written in a very handsome italic on very good quality vellum. Light discoloration along lower edge, below the writing.  (26978)

•  Publisher's acid-stained sheep, round spine with gilt tooling and two spine labels; rubbed at corners and extremities and with evidence of old worm attack at lower part of front joint. Interior clean; in fact, a very good copy.  (25094)

Rare: No copies traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC or RLIN.

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•  Not in Palau. In recent wrappers. Light foxing, a few light waterstains, and a few shallow tears, the latter not touching text.

Uncommon: We trance only the copies at Lehigh, Berkeley, the Sutro, and the Huntington.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico. Sutro 152; Garritz 3995; Steele 14 & 64; Palau 241263. Folded as issued.

The main question at hand is the appointing of a new attorney/solicitor (i.e., procurador) for the California missions. He says, “quiero que ahora y siempre que ocurra [la necesidad de un nuevo procurador], se haga el nombramiento por la Provincia misma despues de haber oido al Presidente de las Misiones, el cual es mi voluntad que en cuanto sea posible camine con acuerdo de la mayor parte a lo menos de los demas misioneros, antes de hacer su propuesta a la Prov[inci]a.”

He also makes appointments to the positions of “Depositarios del Deposito” and the names of the four appointees are given.

•  Written in a clear large hand and with the paper and wax closure in evidence.  (25329)

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•  Written in a clear notarial hand, but with bleed-through in the inventory, making reading slightly challenging — not, impossible. Very good condition.

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A contemporaneous certified copy of the original document.

•  Written in a clear notarial hand. Very good condition.

Certified, contemporary copy of the original.

•  Sewn. In good condition. Very legible notarial hand.

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•  Garritz 5198; Sutro 270; not in Medina, Mexico; not in Steele.   Removed from a nonce volume. Numeral in ink in upper margin of first page.  (24535)

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•  Almirante, Bibliografía militar de España 695; Palau 258163. Removed from a nonce volume. Age-toned.

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•  Not in Palau; not in Almirante. Removed from a nonce volume. Upper outer corner of title-page with shadow of pencilled numeral. Waterstaining to upper and lower inner corners.

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•  Almirante, Bibliografia militar de Espana, 687; Palau 258022. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription and with stamp as described above; one page with inked numeral in upper margin. Pages creased; waterstained from lower inner corners, with inner margins reinforced some time ago.

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•  Almirante, Bibliografia militar de Espana, 688; this ed. not in Palau. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with institutional pressure-stamp and with small chip out of lower margin; leaves with lower inner portions waterstained.

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•  Palau 258065. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small early inked numeral in upper margin. Pages creased and spotted, with upper and lower inner portions waterstained; last leaf with a few small holes (one on fold), not affecting text.

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La Indicación survived only long enough to publish 26 numbers and is now a very rare newspaper. Ricaurte had begun his printing career as Galagarza's partner in the operation of the Colombian government's printing press (La Imprenta del Gobierno).

Very rare: No copies located in NUC Pre-1956 or on OCLC or RLIN.

•  Not in Posada, Bibliografía bogotana; not in Palau. Removed from a nonce volume but in excellent condition.

Rare: WorldCat locates only two copies in the U.S.

An important source on the social and artistic life of Lima in the decade following the Tupac Amaru rebellion.

•  John Carter Brown Library, Catalogue, 1493-1800, III,324; Medina, Lima, 1697; Sabin 73902; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 2546.   Contemporary limp vellum with late, neatly inked title on spine. Some foxing. Plate lacking lower half and small portion of upper one; a handsome skeleton (memento mori) archer is the focus of what remains. Bookplate sometime removed; rubber-stamps on several pages, including title, reading (yes, in English), “Bought of F. Perez Velasco October 1912.”  (25771)

Beristain describes Paredes as being “outstanding in the Mexican language.” His volume was intended for use by missionaries, by parish priests, and by Indians: Indeed, there is a prologue intended to persuade Indians in particular to read and learn this catechism.

Provenance:  Henry Ward Poole ownership signature in minute pencil on rear free endpaper, dated Mexico 1879; old paper auction label at top of spine with lot number; private ownership stamp and bookplate of John Carter Brown; later in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence; deaccessioned.

•  Garcia Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 56; Viñaza 341; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2286; Palau 269110; Medina, Mexico, 4500; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 210–211; Sabin 71488; Leclerc 2334; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2891.   19th-century Mexican acid-stained calf, gilt roll of a rope design on boards; gilt spine extra; spine label defective and missing much leather. Title-pages closely cropped at foremargin not costing any letters; small piece torn from the frontispiece. Light to moderate waterstaining and light wear. A rather decent copy of a decidedly important work.  (26388)

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The origins of printing in Venezuela are still, at this late date, shrouded in shadows. There remain questions of whether itinerant printers established themselves now and then for short periods of time, printing a form or booklet — and definitely some playing cards — and then moving on. The accepted date for “the beginning” of printing in Venezuela is October, 1808, with the arrival of the press of Gallagher and Lamb and this issuance of the first issue of Andrés Bello’s Gazeta de Caracas.

Very Rare. This broadside was unknown to Medina and is only the 16th item in Pedro Grases chronological list of things printed in Venezuela. In his entry he located only the copies in the Public Record Office (London) and the Archivo de Indias (Seville). Searches of NUC, OCLC, and RLIN fail to find any copy at all. Further, no copies were found when searching the OPACs of the national libraries of Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, France, and England.

•  Not in Medina, Caracas. Graces, Historia de la imprenta en Venezuela, Reportorio #16; Villasana, VI, 108. As issued; minor worming in foremargin; repaired. A very good copy.

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•  Medina, Mexico, 12092; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 5236.   Sewn, in plain wrappers, lacking the front one. A clean copy. (24850)

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Seventeenth-century manuscripts from Oaxaca are rare in the marketplace.

•  Written in a clear clerical hand. Leaves separated from each other, but in very good condition.

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