JESUITANA
JESUITANA
For Gentlemen & for Ladies
Darrell, William. The gentleman instructed, in the conduct of a virtuous and happy life ... the fifth edition. London: Pr. by J. Heptinstall for E. Smith, 1713. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.7"). [22], 94, cxxvi, [2], 97–456 pp.
Each portion has a separate title-page; the signature marks would seem to indicate a main half-title not present here, but ESTC’s collation does not call for one. The work is sometimes attributed to George Hickes, whose name appears after the dedication.
• ESTC T108841; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1828 (for first ed.). Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed and abraded with back joint starting to crack from top, spine with stamped call number. One front and one rear fly-leaf excised. Library bookplates, stamped numerals, pressure-stamps, and rubber-stamp to bottom edge; front pastedown with inked presentation note, front free endpaper with inked inscription dated 1805 (lined through), and private owner’s small rubber-stamp. Moderate foxing; some leaves with splashed inkstains extending inwards from outer edges; light waterstaining to lower inner margins of center portion of volume.
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Dávalos, Juan Eusebio. [drop-title] Relacion de los servicios del general Don Juan Eusebio Davalos, cavallero del orden de Alcantara, los de su padre, y antepassados. [Madrid, 1743]. Folio. [2] ff.
He
attempted to found a Jesuit colegio in
Ocaña but the archbishop of Bogotá opposed it. Later service included the defense of Cartagena against the French and numerous posts in the viceroyalty of Peru. Francisco de Andrada, of the Secretaría del Consejo y
Cámara de Indias, de la Negociación del Perú, certifies the accuracy of this document and signs it at the end.
• Palau 259438. Folded as issued.
Early Biography of Palafox Dinouart, Joseph-Antoine-Toussaint. Vie du vénérable Dom Jean de Palafox, evêque d'Angélopolis, & ensuite evêque d'Osme, dédiée a Sa Majeté Catholique. Cologne: Nyon, 1767. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). Frontis., iv, lvi, 576 pp.; 3 plts.
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The work is illustrated with a frontispiece and three copper-engraved plates done by Louis le Grand after designs by Gravelot.
• Sabin 20201; Palau 73986; LeClerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 3180; Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes, 1003–04. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; corners, joints, and spine extremities rubbed, spine with two pinpoint holes and surface cracks to leather. Front free endpaper partially separated, with pencilled annotation on verso; inner margins of one plate and opposing page with small area of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, pages otherwise clean. All edges marbled in blue. An attractive copy. (25799)
Comunero Revolt Echauri, Martín José. Document Signed. In Spanish, on paper. San Miguel (Argentina): 14 May 1735. Folio (31 cm x 12.25"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. The Comunero Revolt in Argentina (ca. 1723–35) was a prolonged episode of uprising against the colonial government by residents in northeastern Argentina (Corrientes) and an adjacent part of Paraguay who felt marginalized by the Jesuit domination of the Guarani Indian labor pool and the Society of Jesus’s near monopoly of the yerba mate and tobacco trade with Buenos Aires.
• Very good condition. Margins a little irregular; paper a little rumpled. Written in a clear, easy to read hand. (24647)
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Figueira, Luis. Arte da grammatica da lingua do Brasil.
Lisboa: Na Officina Patriarcal, 1795. Small 4to (20.5 cm; 8"). [2] ff., 103, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 24313; DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 721; Viñaza 389;
Valle Cabral 6; Rodrigues 1002; Ayrosa 202, Borba de Moraes (rev. ed.), I,
409. Publisher's “wallpaper” wrappers. Fine, crisp copy. (26520)
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