South America

  • Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.

    # 42374

    SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620)

    Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.

    Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden] : Nicolaus van Geelkercken, 1619. Small oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript title and collection number to spine; title with large engraved vignette (early ownership signature to upper margin); pp. [4] (blank), 175, [5] (blank); with folding engraved world map and a further 24 engraved …

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  • [Primera Parte de los] Commentarios Reales, que tratan del Origen de los Yncas, reyes que fueron del Peru, de su idolatria, leyes, y gouierno en paz y en guerra

    # 38359

    Garcilaso de la Vega, "El Inca", 1539-1616

    [Primera Parte de los] Commentarios Reales, que tratan del Origen de los Yncas, reyes que fueron del Peru, de su idolatria, leyes, y gouierno en paz y en guerra

     … Con licencia de la Sancta Inquisicion, Ordinario, y Paco. En Lisboa: En la officina de Pedro Crasbeeck, 1609 [but 1608]. Small folio (240 x 170 mm), later full vellum with ornate gilt-tooled decoration; [9] preliminary leaves, 264 ff (colophon to verso of leaf 264, with date of 1608), [1 errata] page with woodcut decorations; …

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  • [MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay

    # 45874

    KRIESS, Frederico

    [MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay

    Paris : Maison Andriveau-Goujon, [c.1906]. Colour map, 1000 x 860 mm, dissected and laid on canvas; the map is in superb condition and folds into its original pebbled cloth chemise, 175 x 260 mm, which in turn is housed in the original cloth slipcase (mild edge and corner wear) with contrasting title piece lettered in …

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  • Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

    # 38432

    LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)

    Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

    Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations … … Troisieme édition, augmentée. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges speckled …

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  • Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.

    # 45779

    LAS CASAS, Bartholomé de (1484-1566)

    Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.

    Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke wreede feyten der Spangiaerden : met t’samen de beschrijvinge der selver Landen, Volckeren aert ende natuere … … [BOUND WITH] Tweede Deel van de Spieghel der Spaense Tyrannye, gheschiet in Nederlant. Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke ende wreede handelinghen der Spaengiaerden … … Amsterdam : Jan Everts. …

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  • Cosmographia

    # 45823

    APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552); FRISIUS, Reiner Gemma (1508-1555)

    Cosmographia

    Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Lovanienses Medicum & Mathematicu[m] insignem, … … Antwerp: Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius Bontius, 1545. Small quarto (230 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum envelope binding with (possibly later) calf ties; front and rear endpapers with extensive relevant early notes in Dutch on the astrolabe and calculations of the sun’s …

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  • Group of carnival performers including moko jumbies and musicians. US Virgin Islands, c.1930.

    # 45715

    [Photographer unknown].

    Group of carnival performers including moko jumbies and musicians. US Virgin Islands, c.1930.

    Gelatin silver print photograph printed on postcard stock; verso with AZO box with squares in corners (in use 1926-1940), no handwritten message or photographer’s imprint; a crisp image with excellent detail, in superb condition.

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  • Studio portraits of a husband and wife. Concepción, Chile, circa 1870.

    # 45160

    E. GARREAUD Y CÍA.

    Studio portraits of a husband and wife. Concepción, Chile, circa 1870.

    Two albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mounts); versos with the pictorial back mark of ‘E. Garreaud y cía, sucursal del sur‘ [i.e. “southern branch” = Concepción, see below]; the woman’s portrait has a dedicatory inscription in pencil by the sitter on the verso: ‘A mi querida amiga Elena, …

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  • Studio portrait of a gentleman and his son. Quito, Ecuador, 1874.

    # 45162

    [E. L.?]

    Studio portrait of a gentleman and his son. Quito, Ecuador, 1874.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mount); verso with decorative back mark in gold incorporating the photographer’s monogram (E. L.?) and ‘QUITO‘ beneath, and the gentleman sitter’s dedicatory inscription in ink: ‘A mi estimada pariente Sra. Dña. Rosario R. de Vaca, y a su digno caposo, les afrezeo esta prueba de …

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  • Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias

    # 38393

    LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco

    Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias

    cõ todo el descubrimiento, y cosas notables que han acaescido donde que se ganaron hasta el año de 1551. Con la conquista de Mexico, y dela nueva España. Medina del Campo : Guillermo de Millis, 1553. Second edition.Two parts in one, folio (275 x 200 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, original ties partially intact, spine with early title …

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  • Two rare cartes de visite by an American photographer working in Guatemala, 1863-64.

    # 45131

    HAWLEY, Gideon Anson (aka Gedeon Andrés) (1829-1889)

    Two rare cartes de visite by an American photographer working in Guatemala, 1863-64.

    Two cartes de visite with uniform 101 x 61 mm mounts, each with four small head-and-shoulder portraits – one of men, the other of women; these all appear to be salt prints (not albumen prints), cut into oval format and mounted in an identical configuration on each carte; the versos have the same lithographed back …

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  • Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.

    # 13321

    Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603

    Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.

    Coloniæ Agippinæ : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Cologne : Arnold Mylius, 1593]. Second Cologne edition. Small folio, contemporary calf with embossed armorial device to boards, ruled in blind, rebacked, spine with raised bands; edges stained blue, later endpapers, title with woodcut printer’s device, manuscript inscription lower margin; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; pp 541, …

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  • Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.

    # 38367

    CALLANDER, John (1722–1789)

    Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.

    Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the Editor, in which some …

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  • [INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    # 43015

    FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)

    [INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …

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  • Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

    # 41879

    DELATTRE, Charles

    Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

    Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …

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  • A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy. 

    # 29235

    KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)

    A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy. 

    In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …

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