1759rif. 43910Lima: En la Imprenta nueva de los Niños huerphanos por P. Gonzales 1759. First edition. Contemporary brown calf embossed boards. A good copy; tissue repairs to backstrip boards edge worn and moderately scuffed bookplate of Félix Francisco Martín y Herrera on front pastedown lacking front endpaper inked notations on front blank reattached and rear endpaper joint cracked title page worn and torn at inner margin with two small stains affecting but not obscuring the text repaired tears on corners of last page of index marginal dampstains mainly to the upper corners and fingersoilings a few wormholes but text is quite good. 2 leaves 84 pp. 5 pp. indice blank. Sm. 4to. Rare first editionxx of coinage ordinances for the mint in Lima modeled on Mexico's published just four years earlier but adapted to the needs of Lima. See Manuel Moreyra: "Apuntes sobre la historia de la moneda colonial en el peru" republished in La moneda colonial en el Perú 1980. Both the later 1788 edition and this first are uncommon: Not at the BN Spain nor in any European Libraries. OCLC locates two copies of the first at NYPL and JCB; there is also one at the BN Chile. Provenance: Felix Francisco Martín y Herrera 1918-2006 Argentinean Lawyer. Palau 203104 1788 edition only. Medina: Lima 1132. López de Azcona: Bibliografía minera hispano americana 1457. Maffei & Figueroa 3596. Moreno 1236. En la Imprenta nueva de los Niños huerphanos, por P. Gonzales hardcover
1736rif. 36295Madrid. 1736. Collecting Taxes on Lands in Peru and New Spain A rare printed decree by Philip V King of Spain regarding the collection of fines and taxes related to the transfer of lands in Peru and New Spain. Dated Nov. 24 1735 the decree includes a printed form with spaces left blank for the names of officials to be appointed by a judicial commission concerned with the collection of money for fines and other punishments. The future appointees would be responsible for collecting taxes for the Crown. This document also includes historical background related to these concerns reprinting a decree originally issued on Oct. 30 1692 which also dealt with land titles attempts to clarify land ownership and the recovery of funds from the sale of lands that had belonged to the Crown. This earlier document includes references to appropriate sections in the RECOPILACION DE LAS INDIAS first published in 1681. This publication concludes with a note stating that at the first opportunity Spanish ships sailing to the New World should deliver this governmental order. Below the printed text on the final printed page is a manuscript inscription written in Madrid on Oct. 21 1737 and signed by Miguel Gutierrez noting here in English translation: "the cedula inserted in this imprint is a copy of that issued by the Secretary of the Council and the Chamber of the Indies concerned with trade in Peru." A rare printed decree regarding the collection of taxes on lands in Peru and New Spain formerly held by the Spanish Crown. EUROPEAN AMERICANA records only the copy at the Archivo General de las Indias. Not in Medina BHA. 6 leaves. Folio. Dbd. Tax stamps dated 1736 on first and last leaves. Contemporary manuscript annotation on first leaf. Manuscript inscription on final printed page see below. Light dampstaining in top margin. Very good. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 736/230. unknown
1737rif. 36294Madrid. 1737. Spanish Decree Involving New World Missions and "Exploration of the Continent of the Californias" A rare printed decree by Philip V King of Spain regarding vacancies which have occurred in archbishoprics and dioceses in the viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain. An advisory council composed of various theologians and the ministers of the Councils of Spain the Inquisition and the Indies will review this matter which affects missions throughout the New World. The King declares that the effectiveness of the missions which furthers the goals of the Spanish empire depends upon archbishops bishops ecclesiastical dignitaries canons prebends and other religious figures. He states translated here into English: "To be effective and without risk in each bishopric the capital of its missions that determine and establish missions in parts most suitable.taking in the necessary advice of the viceroys Audiencias and prelates with the idea of uniting the continents ensuring the secure communication and commerce of the people.it will be possible to expect to see successes in a few years: the pacification of the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Huasteca; the exploration of the continent of the Californias; the reduction of the barbarous nations of the Orinoco and of the Motilones Indians of Maracaybo Santa Marta and Rio de la Acha; and ensuring the subjugation population enculturation and fertility of such an extended country as remains to be conquered while expanding the Catholic religion and the dominions." Printed in Madrid for distribution in Spain and the New World this copy accomplished at San Ildefonso on Oct. 5 1737 is signed by Miguel de Villanueva as representative of the King of Spain with the inscription "Yo el Rey." A manuscript note on the verso of the last printed page written in the city of Santiago on Nov. 14 1738 describes an instance of the distribution of the text in Chile. A rare printed decree regarding the maintenance of religious offices in the New World with a contemporary manuscript inscription regarding the text's distribution in the viceroyalty of Peru. EUROPEAN AMERICANA records copies only at the John Carter Brown Library and the Archivo General de las Indias. Not in Medina BHA. OCLC lists copies at the JCB and the National Library of Spain. Folio. Dbd. Maltese cross at head of title. Accomplished in manuscript at San Ildefonso Spain on Oct. 5 1737 signed by Miguel de Villanueva. Manuscript inscription on verso of last printed page see below. Contemporary annotation on first page very light dampstaining in top margin a few minor instances of foxing. First leaf slit near binding still intact. A very good copy. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 737/213. PALAU 251318 ref. unknown
1772rif. 58485Lima: En la Oficina de la Calle de S. Jacinto 1772-1773. Dispersing Jesuit Property After Their Expulsion from Peru An important collection of documents on the Jesuit order in Peru which primarily discusses the dispersal of the Order's property after their expulsion from America. The Jesuits were expelled from Peru as well as other Spanish and Portuguese possessions in 1767. Also included here are the constitutions of several schools which were under their provision. Published in two parts both of which are present here. Two volumes. 562075pp. plus 14 leaves which appear between sections; 1583063pp. plus 5 leaves which appear between sections. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum lettered on spine. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Several ex-lib. ink stamps on titlepages one of which has been cut away from text and the page subsequently backed with paper. Some light foxing. About very good. MEDINA LIMA 1338 1358. VARGAS UGARTE 2056 2078. hardcover
1772rif. 6489Lima: Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto 1772. First Edition Primera edición. Hardcover Tapa dura. 190x135mm. 7½x5¼". Lima Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto 1772-1773. 2 volúmenes. En 4º menor 190 x 135mm. -I: 54 2 207 i.e. 133 5 pp. 14 hojas de portadillas. -II: 158 306 i.e. 318 4 pp. 5 hojas de portadillas. Encuadernación en pergamino de época. Primera edición de los cuadernos de desamortización de los bienes de la Compañía de Jesús en Perú con motivo de su expulsión según las reglas que prescribe la Real Cédula dada en Madrid a 9 de julio de 1769. Los Jesuitas fueron expulsados de Perú así como de otras posesiones de España en América por orden de Carlos III en 1767. El libro también incluye las Constituciones de diferentes colegios peruanos que estaban bajo la supervisión de los jesuitas. Obra extraordinariamente rara de encontrar completa de sus dos volúmenes especialmente un ejemplar hermoso como el nuestro. Tiene en total 19 portadillas fuera de la paginación. En España sólo he encontrado completos 2 ejemplares institucionales Ministerio de Justicia y Biblioteca Nacional. Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto hardcover
1918rif. List2982Peru and Panama 1918. Approximately 364 photos; album and unmounted photos silver prints cyanotypes and printing-out-paper prints. Photos measure 3 x 4 to 8 x 10 inches with about half measuring 3 x 5 ½ inches. Some with photographer’s hand-stamp or credit in pencil; others with manuscript notations verso or recto; some captions to album pages. Offered in partnership with Daniel / Oliver. Rich and extensive photographic archive of Walton T. Burres of Stockton California showing his time in Peru c. 1904 as an amateur explorer and doctor for the Inca Mining and Rubber Company and his later work in Panama c. 1918 with the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Health Division.The collection consists of a large number of loose photos acquired by the gallery in 2021 and a recently discovered photo album showing some of the same subjects and containing a few duplicate images some printed in different sizes or formats as well as hundreds of previously unseen prints. Together this material makes up the largest extant archive of Burres’s photographic work. Though his work was published at the time both in Peruvian and American publications much of it was lost when he dropped it in a river that he was attempting to ford. Burres was educated at California’s Cooper Medical College the first school of medicine on the West Coast and was a prominent member of the Stockton community before sojourning to Peru around 1900 to help the Inca Mining and Rubber Company address the deadly diseases endemic to the region such as malaria and yellow fever. To encourage economic infrastructure in remote areas the Peruvian government began granting land concessions to any company that would build roads bridges or river ports. As a result the Inca Mining Company an American outfit based in Tirapata purchased the rights to mine gold along the upper Inambari River in 1896 and soon became the richest gold producer in Peru. A large portion of Burres’s Peruvian images document his 1903–1904 excursion from Arequipa 150 miles into “rubber country.” The journeys were well-recounted in U.S. papers and a number of the anecdotes described in print are seen in the present images. There are many dynamic views of Burres and his party trekking through the dense jungle and summiting the high mountains as well as shots of flora fauna and native Peruvians. Burres’s travel companions for this trip included the famed adventurer Harriet Chalmers Adams later dubbed “America’s greatest woman explorer” by the New York Times. Adams and her husband Frank both fellow Stocktonians joined up with Burres during their own multi-year expedition through South America. There are a number of portraits of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Adams though it is possibly another person. Other Peruvian material includes numerous views of Cusco Arequipa and the surrounding environs including a beautiful interior of a chapel a Martin Chambi-esque detail shot of a stone wall and portraits of local townspeople some identified as Quechua people. There are a number of lush large-format cyanotypes rich printing-out-paper views and many handsome small-format panoramas. These were printed on Inca Mining Company surplus stationary which speaks to the makeshift nature of photo-development under the circumstances. One particularly striking image shows the top of Misti volcano barely visible above the clouds. This image was reproduced in Burres's account of his travels published in 1909 in Outing magazine. The photographs from Burres’s time in Panama document his more serious work as a virologist and health administrator in the area. One interesting photo shows a pair of recently-shot iguanas with a caption noting that “blood of these reptiles was found infected with Haemogregarina.” Another image is that of a new style of privy built from concrete and wire-mesh designed to better keep out rain water. There are also keenly-shot views of main streets and local culture in Los Santos Chiriquí and elsewhere including a number of humanistic group portraits taken at a girl’s school. unknown
