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(COLOMBIA.) Acosta, Joaquín.

Compendio histórico de descubrimiento y

colonizacion de la Nueva Granada en el siglo décimo sexto.

Folding map, 4 plates.

xvi, 460 pages. 8vo, contemporary stamped calf gilt, moderate wear with backstrip

reattached; moderate foxing, disinfection stamp on rear pastedown.

Paris, Imprenta de Beau, 1848

[300/400]

FIRST EDITION

on a history of the early exploration and settlement of the Colombia region.

Palau 1976; Sabin 117. None known at auction since one was sold by Swann in 1978.

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(COLOMBIA.) Julian, Antonio.

La perla de la America, Provincia de Santa

Marta.

[2], xxx, 280 pages. 4to, later

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4

calf, moderate wear; moderate dampstaining,

marginal worming to a few leaves, lacks map.

Madrid: Sancha, 1787

[300/400]

A detailed study of the Santa Marta province in what is now Colombia, including a chapter on

the Guajira (Wayuu) language. Medina, BHA 5225; Palau 126001; Sabin 36882.

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(COMMERCE.) Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François.

Historica politica de los

establecimientos ultramarinos de las naciones Europeas.

13 maps, 6 folding tables.

5 volumes. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, minor wear; short tears to a few maps, map facing

V:193 repaired with cello tape, edges tinted red; small inked “MM” stamps on verso of

titles and page 52.

Madrid: Sancha, 1784-90

[2,000/3,000]

FIRST SPANISH EDITION

of the “Histoire philosophique et politique” (1770), translated by

the Duque de Almodóvar under the pseudonym Eduardo Malo de Luque. Palau 248679;

Sabin 68084.

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