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(SANTIAGO—1818.)
Viva la patria, extraordinario de Santiago de Chile.
Letterpress broadside newspaper extra, 29 x 19 cm; minor foxing, edges tinted yellow.
Santiago, 22 March 1818
[800/1,200]
A newspaper extra which prints José de San Martín’s announcement of the young nation’s
crushing defeat at Talca and his army’s successful retreat to San Fernando.
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(SANTIAGO—1818.) [O’Higgins,Bernardo.]
Manifiesto que hace a las naciones
el Director Supremo de Chile de los motivos que justifican su revolucion y la
declaracion de su independencia.
[2], 20 pages. 4to, modern calf gilt, minor wear, with
original plain wrappers bound in; minor foxing; inscription of Argentine patriot Tomás
Godoy Cruz on front wrapper, Oscar Carbone bookplate on front pastedown, and his
inked stamps on flyleaves.
Santiago: Xara y Molinare, 1818
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION
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A justification of the recently concluded struggle for Chilean independence,
signed in type by Supreme Director O’Higgins on the day of the formal ceremony in honor of
Chilean independence, 12 February 1818. One copy in OCLC.
WITH
—O’Higgins.
Justificacion del decreto supremo que rebaxó los reditos de censos y capellanias. Santiago:
Imprenta del Gobierno, 1819.
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(SANTIAGO—1819.) [Egaña, Juan.]
Cartas pehuenches ó correspondencia
de dos indios naturales del Pire-mapu . . . el uno residente en Santiago, y el otro
en las cordilleras pehuenches.
12 letters (complete), each from 6 to 12 pages. 4to,
contemporary
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calf gilt, moderate wear; Morse Code key in early manuscript on front
endpapers; unsightly collector’s inked stamps on first two leaves and elsewhere, some partly
erased.
Santiago, Imprenta de Gobierno, 1819
[400/600]
A philosophical dialogue in support of Chilean independence between two fictional Araucanian
Indians, written by a leading Chilean intellectual. See Earle,”The Return of the Native:
Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America,” page 30. None traced at auction.
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