South America
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# 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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# 45782
SSAG
[ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION] Ymer 2001: Antarktanderna – svensk forskning i Otto Nordenskjölds fotspår.
Stockholm : Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi, 2001. Octavo (225 x 160 mm), pictorial papered boards, pp. 290, photographic illustrations in b/w and colour, maps, diagrams; a very fine copy. Yearbook of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography for 2001, honouring the centenary of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1903 led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. …
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# 38374
Gonzalez de Mendoza, Juan, 1545-1618; Loyola, Martin Ignacio de, d. 1606; Parke, Robert
The historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China, and the situation thereof : togither with the great riches, huge citties, politike gouernement, and rare inuentions in the same. Translated out of Spanish by R. Parke.
London : Printed by I. Wolfe for Edward White, 1588. First English edition. Quarto (185 x 140 mm), nineteenth-century vellum over boards ruled in gilt (small stain to lower board) with yapp edges; contrasting morocco title label with gilt lettering to spine; edges stained red; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Arthur Dalrymple; pp [viii], 410; …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 43652
HUDSON, W. H.
Idle days in Patagonia
London : Chapman & Hall, 1893. First edition (printed in an edition of 1750 copies). Octavo, full tree calf, gilt decorated borders, spine in compartments with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco title label, marbled edges and endpapers, book plate of A. W. K Straton to front pastedown, pp. viii; 256, illustrated, occasional light scattered foxing William Henry …
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# 43428
[SMITH, William Lamb, 1846-1910]
Certificate appointing William Lamb Smith as Consul General of the Republic of Paraguay in Melbourne, dated 18 February, 1902.
Asunción : Lit. L. Fresura & Co., [1902]. Lithographed certificate laid down on board, 400 x 500 mm, with manuscript entries recording the appointment of William Lamb Smith as the Republic of Paraguay’s Consul General in Melbourne; dated 18 February 1902, and with the full signatures of the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Andrés Héctor …
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# 38381
MEDINA, Balthasar de
Vida martyrio, y beatificación del invicto proto-martyr de el Japan San Felipe de Jesús, patron de Mexico, su patria,
imperial corte de Nueva España en el Nuevo Mundo … Segunda Impressión … Madrid : en la imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan García Infanzón, 1751. Quarto (205 x 145 mm), contemporary limp vellum (ties replaced); pp. [28], 176, with one engraved plate depicting the crucifixion of San Felipe; scattered light foxing, else contents very good; …
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# 38385
Anonymous.
Breve resumen de la vida y martyrio del inclyto mexicano y proto-martyr del Japón, el Beato San Felipe de Jesús.
Añadidas algunas obvias reflecciones en honor del mismo Héroe esclarecido, y de esta dichosísima Ciudad felize en ser su Patria. Por un Eclesiástico de este Arzobispado … … México : En la Oficina Madrileña de la Calle de Sto. Domingo y Esquina de Tacuba, 1802. Octavo (195 x 140 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (very good, with some minor staining and edge wear), spine with gilt decoration, …
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# 40316
VIANA, Francisco Javier de (1764-1820)
[MALASPINA] Diario del viage explorador de las corbetas españolas “Descubierta” y “Atrevida”, en los años de 1789 á 1794 / llevado por el teniente de navio D. Francisco Javier de Viana, y ofrecido para su publicacion, en su original inédito, por el Sr. D. Francisco Javier de Viana, y demas hijos del autor.
Cerrito de la Victoria [Uruguay] : Imprenta del ejército, 1849. First edition. Large octavo, contemporary vellum with later title label, housed in quarter morocco clamshell box, loosely inserted bookplate of Jorge Skinner-Klee, second title ‘Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. “Descubierta” y …