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(BRAZIL.)
Lettere annue d´Etiopia, Malabar, Brasil, e Goa dall´anno 1620,
fin´al 1624.
343, [1] pages. 8vo, later vellum; staining and erased inscription on title page,
errata corrected in early manuscript, washed, a few skillful repairs including restoration of
some text to final 4 leaves.
Rome: Corbeletti, 1627
[1,500/2,500]
The chapter on Jesuit activities in Brazil (pages 119-136) was written by Manuel de Araujo
in 1621. “Quite rare . . . contains mainly religious and biographical information”—Borba de
Moraes, page I:475; European Americana 627/66.
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(BRAZIL.)
Pair of printed documents relating to the Indians of Graõ Pará
and Maranhaõ in northern Brazil.
Folio, disbound; minimal wear.
[Lisbon, 1755-58]
[500/750]
José I, King of Portugal. An important decree granting freedoms to the Indians of northern
Brazil. Begins “Dom Joseph por graça de Deos,” is headed “Ley, porque V. Magestade ha por
bem restituir aos Indios do Graõ Pará, e Maranhaõ a liberdade das suas pessoas, e bens, e comer-
cio,” and reads in part “desde o descobrimento do Graõ Pará, e Maranhaõ até agora naõ só se
naõ tem multiplicado, e civilizado os Indios daquelle Estado; desterrando-se delle a barbaridade, e
o gentilismo, e propagando-se a doutrina christãa, e o numero dos fiéis allumiádos da luz do
evangelo.” 12 pages. [Lisbon, 6 June 1755] * [Furtado?] Directorio, que se deve observar nas
povoaçoens dos Indios do Pará, e Maranhaõ em quanto sua magestade naõ mandar o contrario.
[2], 41 pages. Borba de Moraes, page I:265 (“interesting and rare”). Lisbon: Rodrigues, 1758.
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(CALIFORNIA.) Baegert, Johan Jakob.
Nachrichten von der amerikanischen
halbinsel Californien.
Folding map, 2 plates (often lacking). [16], 358 pages. Small 8vo,
later
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calf, moderate wear, old label on spine; minor worming to a few leaves; small inked
“MM” stamps on verso of title, map, and page 52.
Mannheim: Churfurstl, 1773
[1,200/1,800]
Second edition. The account of a longtime German Jesuit missionary in Baja California.
“Perhaps no man ever wrote an impersonal book with such bitterness of heart. According to his
accounts the country was absolutely unfitted for habitation; it was inhabited by wild and
ferocious beasts; peopled by inhospitable and cruel savages; water was unfit for use; wood was
scarce; and the soil would not sustain life”—Cowan 1933, page 27. Howes B29 (“aa”);
Streeter sale IV:2442; Streeter, Spanish Southwest 157n.
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