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1929réf. 6596Asuncion Paraguay 1929. Still very good. Thirty-five original photographs each approximately 7 x 9.5 inches. Oblong small folio album contemporary quarter sheep and cross-hatched cloth boards strong tied at gutter. Spine beginning to split and to fray at ends; boards loosening. Typed label affixed to front board; contemporary ink presentation inscription to front pastedown. Preponderance of photographs with typed caption labels in lower corners. Images generally clear and strong. An attractive souvenir album with large studio photographs of Asuncion Paraguay presented to noted American author Frances Parinson Keyes during her grand tour of Spain and South America in 1929 and 1930. The album is signed by George Lewis Kreeck the U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Paraguay for the second half of the 1920s. Most photos present here show various buildings and sites of Asuncion including the Palacio de los Lopez the Cabildo the Port of Asuncion with several ships docked at harbor the Ministries of War and the Navy the Stock Exchange the "El Paraiso" department store the Asuncion train station private mansions and much more. There is also a group portrait of elementary school students and two group portraits of graduates from the Asuncion School of Aviation. Another photo is a seated portrait of Jose Eligio Ayala President of Paraguay from 1923 to 1928 and Minister of Finance from 1928 to 1930. Four photos show cavalry and infantry regiments of the Paraguayan army a company of cadets from the local military school and a group of French officers hired to train the Paraguayan officer corps. The other photos show meat processing plants near Asuncion Frigorigico San Antonio and Frigorifico Leibig's piles of treated wood awaiting export and a candid shot of a very pleased looking Paraguayan bull. All but two photographs are captioned with typed labels. The images of the Paraguayan give the impression of a sleepy colonial backwater although earlier in the decade the area had been subject to intense fighting during a two-year civil war. Frances Parkinson Keyes the recipient of this album was a prolific American novelist journalist editor and biographer. She gained popularity as author of the memoir "Letters from a Senator's Wife" which described life in Washington D.C. with her husband Henry Wilder Keyes a three-term Senator from New Hampshire. In the mid-1920s Keyes went on a world tour traveling from Cuba to Hawaii and thence through Southeast Asia the Middle East and Europe and published articles about her trip in the magazines "Good Housekeeping" and "Better Homes & Gardens." The popularity of her travel writing led her undertake a second tour in 1929 to the Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville and then to South America where she traveled through Venezuela Brazil Paraguay Argentina and Chile. It was on this trip that she received the present album and ab out this journey that she published her travel notes in 1931 "Silver seas and Golden Cities: A Joyous Journey Through Latin Lands. unknown books
1752réf. PHO-2500Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, 1752, 2 volumes in-4 (26x22cm), 11 ff.-554 pp. et 1f.-316 pp.-7ff.-309 pp.-3pp., Veau marbré époque dos à nerfs orné avec pièces de titre et tomaison, tranches jaspées. Frottements, coins usés, accroc coiffe sup. Tome 2, 4 feuillets blanc brunis, 9 planches brunies, 1 avec déchirure réparée.
1880réf. 30328HARDBACK NODJ ISSUED 1880 ON COPYRITE PG 1ST Edition THICK Embossed boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Spine cover ends and corners show very little wear. Spine cover is faded SLITELY.Text block is clean and unmarked. All OUTER edges are red stained with lettered Gold Gilt Titles Interior VG/ VG AS-IS WITH RED THIN STAIN TO OUTER EDGE FEW PGS NOJACKET THICK BROWN PURPLE embossed Cover with Bright Gold Gilt DECORATIONS CVR LITE rub wear Scuffing 517 pgs Interior nice condition light Wear FOX Interior nice tight Clean light Fox OUTER PGS EDGES LITE RED . & Tragic Death of Philosopher Pythagoras. Roman Catholic Church has relentlessly persecuted Tortured & Burnt them at the Stake. Recent remarkable discovery of Masonic emblems on an ancient obelisk in Egypt." Redding & Co. Publ, NY, Masonic publishers hardcover
1860réf. PHO-2406Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1860-65. 2 volumes de texte in-8 (235 x 148 mm) de : I/ lxiv pp., 486 pp., (1) f. d’errata ; II/ (2) ff., 480 pp., iv pp. de table ; et 1 Atlas in-folio (57x40cm). Texte : relié demi veau, dos lisse avec titre et tomaison, dos frotté, coiffes arasés, charnières faibles au tome 2, cachets aux titres. Atlas : sous portefeuille demi toile, titre et tomaison au plat, 2 chemises de livraison comportant 13 planches (16) et 2 planches en double (Fragment de carte et Ruine de l’église Saint Michel), portefeuille frotté, chemises de livraison ébarbées, rousseurs, petites mouillures marginales, une planche plus petite en marge.
1660réf. 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.
1756réf. ABC_48388Saint Paul = São Paulo but the work was likely printed somewhere in Western Europe 1756. 8vo. Contemporary brown paste paper wrappers with a manuscript title label mounted at the head of the spine and a shelf mark label at the foot in a protective clear plastic sleeve. With a typographical ornament on the title-page. 88 pp. First or second edition of a rare biography of the mythical Spaniard Nicolas Rubiuni 1710- the "first king of Paraguay" and "emperor of the Mamelukes Mamelucos of São Paulo". It was the first time that the Bandeirantes settlers of Pirintinga served as the theme for a novel. This curious work is sometimes considered to be an anti-Jesuit publication but Borba de Moraes argues that it should simply be seen as a work of fiction instead. The first two editions of this novel were both published in 1756 and it is therefore unclear which is the first. However the present edition appears to be the most rare of the two as we have only been able to find it in two sales records of the past 100 years.The myth of Nicolas Rubiuni is said to have been created by Marquis Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo 1699-1782 chief minister to the Portuguese king to undermine the Jesuits. When the Jesuits first arrived in Paraguay in 1588 their objective was to convert to local people the Guaraní to Christianity and to protect them from European colonists and slave traders. The Guaraní were threatened by the Bandeirantes from Brazil who tried to capture and enslave them to work on the sugar plantations. However armed by the Jesuits the Guaraní were able to defeat them in 1642 which ended to worst of the slave trade in the region. The involvement of the Jesuits inspired mixed feelings in Europe. They were painted as either romantic saviours or as exploiters who were using the Guaraní to create their own independent kingdom in Paraguay. The figure of Rubiuni was said to have stood up against the Jesuits and restore order in the region.According to Borba de Moraes the work demonstrates how closely the activities in the Americas were followed in Europe as the unknown author displays a wealth of knowledge about the missions the subjecting of Paraguay to Jesuit rule and the treatment of the Guaraní. The work must have been fairly popular in Europe as Italian German and Dutch translations were published shortly after the first French editions. With the bookplate of Carolus Franciscus S. R. J. Comes à Nefelrod mounted on the inside of the front wrapper. The edges and corners of the wrappers are somewhat scuffed with creasing and some loss of material on the spine including of the two paper labels mounted there making them difficult to read. With a wormhole on the front wrapper and first 3 leaves barely affecting the printed text. Otherwise in good condition.l Borba de Moraes I p. 404; Sabin 32020. unknown
