MARIN, M.DE LA LUZERNE, César-GuillaumeLivre Rare Book
Collection of Books on Latin America from the Personal Library of Historian Irving A. Leonard
1953réf. BK0111V.p.: V.p. 1953. Twelve books. Conditions vary though generally very good to excellent. See description. Irving A. Leonard 1896-1996 was a pioneering historian of Latin America. Leonard specialized in the cultural and intellectual history of colonial Latin America particularly the literature of Spanish colonists as it influenced the intellectual life of the colonies. He is best known for Books of the Brave 1949 a study of the literature that Spanish conquistadors and settlers brought to the Americas which argues that their literature shaped how they understood their experiences and uses shipping and customs records to demonstrate the circulation of literature in Spanish America. Offered here is a collection of both fiction and nonfiction books from Leonard's personal library including some by Leonard himself. Two of the books Leonard's Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora 1929 and The Mercurio Volante of Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora 1932 are in English while the remainder are in Spanish. Full inventory follows. Francisco Rodríguez Marín El "Quijote" y Don Quijote en América Los Sucesores de Hernando 1911. Inscribed "Irving A Leonard / Sevilla España 30 Marzo 1931." with stamp reading "NUEVA LIBRERIA M. COLONIS SEVILLA". 8vo marbled boards. Boards with wear especially to edges and spine very good. Contents with a few pencil markings excellent. Pérez Galdós Los Ayacuchos Los Sucesores de Hernando 1916. 12mo green boards. Boards with normal wear especially to edges and library call number sticker on spine VG. With Middlebury College Library bookplate and WITHDRAWN stamp on pastedown. Contents toned excellent. Irving A. Leonard Ensayo Bibliografico de Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Gongora Monografias Bibliograficas Mexicanas 1929. Inscribed by the author and dated Oct. 11 1929 Berkeley CA. 8vo marbled boards. Boards with normal wear especially to spine very good plus. Contents foxed with a few pencil markings; excellent. Irving A. Leonard Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. A Mexican Savant of the Seventeenth Century University of California Press Berkeley 1929. 8vo in marbled boards. Boards with wear especially at edges and to spine very good plus. Contents excellent to Near Fine. Irving A. Leonard Alboroto y Motin de Mexico del 8 de Junio de 1692. Relacion de Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Gongora en una Carta Dirigida al Almirante Don Andres de Pez. Edicion Anotada Talleres Graficos del Museu Nacional de Arqueologia Historia y Etnografia 1932. 8vo marbled boards. Boards with normal wear especially to spine and edges very good plus. Contents with some wrinkling very good plus. Irving A. Leonard trans. The Mercurio Volante of Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. An Account of the First Expedition of Don Diego de Vargas into New Mexico in 1692 The Quivira Society Vol. III Pl. I 1932. 8vo brown boards with Quivira Society marker debossed in gold. With some apparent water stains to spine though no dampness or mold; boards very good. Contents slightly foxed especially at some gutters else Near Fine. Irving A. Leonard El Desdén Vengado de Lope de Vega University of California Press Berkeley 1935. 8vo brown boards with title debossed. Boards with small stains and some wrinkling very good. Contents Near Fine. Benito Lynch El Inglés de los Güesos Libreria y Editorial "La Facultad" Bernabe y Cía 1937. 5th Ed. With Irving Leonard's stamp on flyleaf. 8vo in white cloth. Boards worn with some stains very good. Contents with pencil markings very good. Irving A. Leonard Obras Dramáticas de Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo. Con un Apéndice de Poemas Inéditos Santiago de Chile Imprenta Universitaria 1937. 8vo brown boards with leather spine. Slight wear to boards with more significant wear to spine and corners very good plus. Contents excellent to Near Fine. Manuel Galvez La Maestra Normal Editorial Tor c. 1937. Inscribed by the author. 8vo white cloth. Boards toned excellent. Contents quite toned with a few pencil markings very good. Jose Rojas Garcidueñas Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Gongora Erudito Barroco Ediciones Xochitl 1945. With Leonard's English review affixed to pastedown. 12mo white boards with red spine. Foxing and toning to boards with wear especially to edges very good minus. Contents toned else Near Fine. Irving A. Leonard Los Libros del Conquistador trans. Mario Monteforte Toledo and Julián Calvo Fondo de Cultura Economica 1953. First Spanish edition. Inscribed by Leonard to his son "Para mi hijo amigo y colega David P. Leonard con todo el afecto de tu 'Dad'. Ann Arbor 1 Diciembre 1953". 8vo marbled boards. Boards quite attractive with some small areas of wear to edges NF. Contents with some toning else NF. . V.p. unknown
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