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(FRENCH LANGUAGE.)
Group of 7 French works on Latin America.
16
volumes, all 8vo, various bindings and conditions.
Vp, 1761-1864
[500/750]
Brasseur de Bourbourg. Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique et de l’Amerique-Centrale
durant les siècles antérieurs a Christophe Colomb. 4 volumes. Paris, 1857-59 * Chevalier. Le
Mexique ancien et moderne. Paris, 1863 * Combier. Voyage au golfe de Californie. Paris, 1864 *
Coudrette. Idée générale des vices principaux de l´Institut des Jésuites. Paris, 1761 * Cretineau-
Joly. Clément XIV et les Jésuites. Liége, 1847 * Raynal. Histoire philosophique et politique. 7
volumes. 4 (of 7) maps, 5 (of 7) plates. The Hague, 1774 * Xérés. Relation véridique de la
conquête du Pérou (one volume from Ternaux-Compans’s 20-volume Voyages). Paris, 1837.
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(GUATEMALA.) Villagutierre Sosomayor, Juan de.
Historia de la conquista de
la provincia de el Itza, reduccion, y progresso de la de el Lacandon, y otras
naciones de Indios barbaros, de la mediacion de el reyno de Guatimala, a las
provincias de Yucatan.
[64], 660, [34] pages. Folio, contemporary vellum, moderate
wear; lacking engraved additional title page, lacking preliminary leaves h2-3, moderate
foxing, minimal dampstaining, worn waste sheets from the undated “Metrica aclamacion a
la venida de nuestro Catolico Monarca D. Felipe Quinto” used as endpapers; title page in
red and black.
[Madrid: Bedmar y Narvaéz, 1701]
[1,000/1,500]
First edition, volume one (all published). First issue, with incorrect “gla” catchword on leaf f2.
The story of the Itza people in what is now northern Guatemala, who finally succumbed to
Spanish forces in 1697. European Americana 701/262; Field 1605 (“has from its extreme
rarity remained almost unknown”); Medina, BHA 2051; Palau 366681; Sabin 99643.
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(INDIANS.) [Carli, Gian Rinaldo.]
Le lettere americane.
Folding map. [8], xxiv,
232, [6], 269, [11], 213, [3] pages. 3 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary
1
/
2
vellum, minor
wear; a bit of marginal worming to the first few leaves.
Cremona, Italy: Manini, 1781-83
[250/350]
Expanded second edition. Letters by an Italian count, theorizing about the origins of the
American Indians, possibly from Europe via Atlantis to Brazil. With a long dedication to
Benjamin Franklin by the publisher Isidoro Bianchi. Howes C149; Sabin 10911.
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