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(LIMA—1764.) Bracho Bustamante, Pedro Antonio.
Tratado de artilleria y
bombarderia, para instruccion de los artilleros.
2 folding plates by Vasquez. [8], 130
pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; leaf G1 cropped to text, plates remounted
on fresh stubs.
[Lima]: Imprenta Real, 1764
[2,000/3,000]
A rarely seen artillery textbook. Medina, Lima 1211; Palau 34375. 5 copies in OCLC, and
none known at auction.
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(LIMA—1765.) Febres, Andrés.
Arte de la lengua general del reyno de
Chile.
[30], 682, [1] pages. 8vo, later vellum, minor wear; front hinge split; title page in red
and black, printed slightly out of register.
Lima: Calle de la Encarnacion, 1765
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
of a dictionary and grammar of the Mapuche or Mapudungun language, still
spoken widely in Chile. This remained the standard work in the field through the early 20th
century. Medina, Lima 1228; Palau 87065; Sabin 23968.
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(LIMA—1767.)
Nos los inquisidores apostolicos contra la heretica
pravedad, y apostasía en estos reynos, y provincia del Perú.
Letterpress broadside,
57 x 41 cm on 2 conjoined sheets; a few small holes, but generally clean and fresh.
[Lima, 20 August 1767]
[500/750]
The Inquisition’s censor forbids 18 recent books, and mandates dozens of changes to Bielfeld’s
Institutions Politiques. Signed in type by Bartolomé López Grillo and Francisco Matienzo
Bravo del Rivero, and in manuscript by Gaspar de Ozue. None in OCLC.
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