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1790In-4°; 2 parti in 2 volumi rilegati in mezza pelle coeva con tassello e titolo in oro al dorso (del primo vol. lievemente difettosa); tagli spruzzati. Pp. 321, (1), 3 tavole f.t. a piena pagina incise su rame (una raffigura il vulcano Pambamarca nella zona di Quito in Ecuador), 2 grandi tavole ripiegate con tabelle; Pp. 400, 4 tavole a piena pagina incise su rame di cui una raffigura il, vulcano di Pichincha vicino Quito, e l’altra il vulcano Chimborazo sempre in Ecuador; 2 grandi tavole ripiegate con tabelle. Al verso dei frontespizi piccoli timbri di possesso. Interessante e poco nota opera di fisica sperimentale e sienze naturali del gesuita spagnolo Francesco Perez (1720-1807 Bologna), matematico e missionario in Ecuador, Quito, fino alla espulsione dei gesuiti dai domini spagnoli (1767); in Italia si dedicò alla scrittura di opere scientifiche che vennero pubblicate dopo la soppressione della Compagnia nel 1773. Il suo nome è legato anche all’invenzione di strumenti scientifici, tra cui uno per misurare gli angoli. Oggetto del trattato il Barometro, “istrumento in grado eminente per condurre l’intelletto alla cognizione dell’elemento dell’aria”, e il Termometro, strumenti dei quali si ricordano gli inventori, i metodi costruttivi, le evoluzioni tecniche; si esaminano le differenze tra aria e atmosfera, “l’elasticità” della materia eterea, l’atmosfera equinoziale dell’America, specialmente delle montagne e vulcani dell’Ecuador (Caraburo, Oyambaro, Pichincha Pambamarca ecc.) dove l’atmosfera fu misurata con l’aerometro, come ampiamente si descrive nella seconda parte. Un capitolo, in fine, è dedicato all’atmosfera europea.
1737ref. 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
1737ref. 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 books
1660ref. PHO-1576Nicolas & Jean de la Coste, Veuve Nicolas de la Coste, 1660-1671 ,3 volumes in-4° de 15ff.-776pp.-12ff. ,12 ff.-784 pp.- 14 ff., 9ff-790pp., Première décade en plein vélin , dos à nerfs avec pièce de titre, Seconde décade en plein veau, dos à nerfs orné avec titre ,tranches mouchetées, Troisième décade en demi veau (reliure moderne), coiffes arasées , coins usés , début de fentes , frottements, mouillures au tome 3.
1772ref. 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
1772ref. 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 books
1557In-16 p., (mm. 150x100), p. pergamena rigida antica, titolo ms. al dorso, 18 cc.nn., 324 cc.num., marca tipograf. al frontespizio e con alcune grandi iniziali figur. a vignetta, inc. su legno. Questa “seconda parte” è dedicata alla conquista del Peru (fino alla pacificazione effettuata da Gasca), delle Antille, del Chile e dell’America Centrale e anche al viaggio di Magellano e alla scoperta delle Molucche. “La prima parte de la cronica del gran regno del Perù, con la descrittione di tutte le provincie, e costumi, e riti, con le nuove città edificate..” fu scritta in lingua spagnola da Pedro Cieza de Leon. Come precisa Brunet, l’opera doveva essere composta da 4 parti ma solo la prima fu pubblicata (a Siviglia nel 1553; nella versione italiana, a Roma, 1555). La “cronica del regno del Peru” fu completata dallo storico spagnolo Francesco Lopez de Gomara, con la sua importante “Historia general de las Indias”, tradotta in italiano, in prima ediz. a Roma nel 1556, col titolo “La historia generale delle Indie Occidentali..” e, in seconda ediz. a Venezia, 1557, col titolo “La seconda parte delle historie generali dell’India..”. “Francisco Lopez de Gomara (1512 - 1560?), ecclesiastico, studiò ad Alcalà, venne a Roma, e fu poi in America cappellano di Ferdinando Cortés. Nel 1552 fu pubblicata a Saragozza la sua famosa "Historia general de las Indias".. Nella narrazione il Lopez de Gomara ha buon senso nell’utilizzare le fonti e nell’interpretarle; è colto, e scrive con correttezza e precisione.. Nel 1553 la stampa e la vendita del libro vengono proibite da Filippo II. La "Historia" fu subito tradotta in italiano, in latino e in francese” (nel XVI secolo se ne fecero circa venti edizioni). Così Enciclopedia Treccani,XXI, p. 486. Cfr. Palau,IV, p. 264/265 che cita le numer. ediz. e traduz. - Brunet,II,67 - The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages”,1038 cita la prima ediz. illustrata in spagnolo del 1555: “The "Historia" of Lopez de Gomara is a classic work in the history of America. It contains a wealth of information about the Spaniards in the West Indies, Gran Colombia, Peru and Mexico”. Corto del margine super.; frontesp. arross. e qualche lieviss. arross. interc. nel t. altrimenti esemplare ben conservato.
1772ref. 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
1918ref. 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
1918ref. 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 books
1880ref. 46404219Berlin, Asher, 1880-87 ; 3 volumes in-folio, en feuilles sous portefeuilles toile verte d’éditeur. faux-titre, titre, 7 ff. (table des planches), 16 ff., 37 ff. en regard des planches - 2 ff., 13 ff., 59 ff. en regard des planches - 2 ff., 29 ff., 45 ff. - 141 planches lithographiées, la plupart en couleurs.ÉDITION ORIGINALE et PREMIER TIRAGE de cette publication rarissime, surtout complète des 141 planches comme c’est le cas ici.Sublimes lithographies montrant les momies, vêtements, bijoux, ustensiles, ossements découverts lors de ces fouilles.Portefeuilles abimés, quelques pâles rousseurs.
ref. 39448Ensemble complet des trois parties, relié en quatre volumes in-4 (222 x 160 mm), veau brun granité, dos à 5 nerfs, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge, armes dorées au centre des plats (La Rochefoucauld), tranches mouchetées de rouge (reliure de lépoque).
1602ref. 11790Imprimé à Amstelredam [sic], chez Cornille Claessz sur l'Eau au Livre à Ecrire, l'an 1602. In-folio de [2]-61 pages (A-H4), cartonnage noir à la Bradel, signé Honegger. Restauration mineure à quelques feuillets.