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1921 · réf. BIBLIO-65375 — Maggs Bros. London bookseller's catalogue 1921. 2 vols contemporary half-morocco and boards marbled endpapers original printed wrappers bound in with additional blank leaves at front and back top edge gilt gilt spine-title small 4to. 188 8 pp frontispiece and 18 plates. 165 5 pp frontispiece and 17 plates. 556 and 567-1153 items. The catalogues are arranged chronologically with an alphabetical index and subject index at the end. From the foreword: "Among the more interesting items in catalogue 412 are the following: No. 3 The First Edition in German of the First Letter of Columbus of 1497; No. 4 Pedro Alvarez Cabral's The Discoverer of Brazil Copy of One of the Earliest Books referring to the New World namely Pomponius Mela Salamanca 1498; No. 6 Waldseemüller's Cosmography 1509 containing the four Voyages of Vespuccius; No. 8 Padilla's The Twelve Triumphs of the Twelve Apostles; No. 9 Cortes' Second and Third Letters 1532; No. 13 Diaz de Ysla Tractate against the Serpentine Evil 1539; No. 16 Zumarraga's Christian doctrine Mexico 1543; No. 19 A complete set of the first editions of the works of Las Casas 1552-3; No. 20 Giron's Treslado 1553 the only copy known of the contemporary account from Lima of the outbreak of the last revolt of the Conquistadors; No. 22 The first collection of Jesuit Missionary Letters in Spanish 1555; No. 36 The illuminated manuscript of the rules of the Mexican Inquisition made for the Grand Inquisitor of Mexico 1597; No. 37 Joan Baptista's Manual for the Conversion of the Mexican Indians printed in a Mexican Convent in 1600; No. 40 The only copy known of Miguel de Monsalve's Reducion de Todo el Peru Lima 1604; No. 50 Figueroa's History of the First Expeditions to California Florida and New Mexico 1617; No. 52 The Secret Sailing Instructions for Spanish Boats returning from America 1619; No. 55 Arriaga's Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru Lima 1621; No. 70 The Secret Manuscript Maps of the Americas; No. 72a Pinello's Question Moral The First Book on American Drinks 1636; No. 78 Montoya's Catechism in the Guarani tongue. 1640; No. 97 First English Edition of the Cambridge platform 1653; etc. etc. " The reviewer in The London Mercury observed: "The most important item is a set of secret maps of the Americas and the Indies made in 1630 by Joao Teixeira Cosmographer of the King of Portugal and secured in 1681 by the Spanish Secret Service The first map is one of the Spanish and Portuguese Conquests and is falsified for use at conferences between the two nations so as to show the Rio de la Plata within the Portuguese boundaries. Bookplate of the journalist critic and editor Clement King Shorter on the front pastedown endpapers catalogue 412 with one scrape to the leather and catalogue 413 with wear to the spine-ends and edges some other minor wear to extremities boards a little rubbed and slightly faded contents Good. Maggs Bros., London, bookseller's catalogue, 1921 hardcover