45 242
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(INDIANS.) Hervas y Panduro, Lorenzo.
Catalogo de las lenguas de las naciones
conocidas.
7 folding tables. 6 volumes. 4to, contemporary tree calf, minor wear; moderate
foxing, minor dampstaining on a few pages, closed tear on Volume 5 title.
Madrid: Ranz, 1800-05
[1,200/1,800]
“
The first volume of this very learned work . . . is devoted to the aboriginal languages, and the
people who spoke them”—Sabin 31600. The first volume covers the languages of the
Americas, and the others cover Europe and Polynesia. Three tables present detailed information
on the Guarani people, and on the missions of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in modern Bolivia and
Chaco in Argentina. Medina, BHA 5891; Palau 114453; Pilling 1755.
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(INDIANS.) Horn, George.
De originibus americanis.
[20], 282 pages. 8vo,
contemporary calf, worn, rebacked; signature clipped from front free endpaper; title page in
red and black; early library bookplate on front pastedown, inked library stamp on final
page.
The Hague: Vlacq, 1652
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
.
A response to the theories of Hugo Grotius on the initial settlement of the
Americas. European Americana 652/111; Field 717; Sabin 33014 (describes Horn’s theories
as “very curious and supported by an infinite wealth of learning”).
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(INDIANS.) [Moxó y de Francolí, Benito María de.]
Entretenimientos de un
prisionero en las provincias.
2 engraved additional titles, 3 plates, 2 manuscript facsim-
ile plates. [2], viii, 334; [2], 391, 16 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary speckled calf,
minor wear; dampstaining to last few leaves, crudely erased pencil inscription on second
title, a bit of worming; early inscriptions on title pages.
Barcelona: Torner, 1828
[500/750]
“
A valuable set of dissertations upon the natives and history of the New World, written by
Don Benito Maria de Moxo, Archbishop of Charcas, whose papers fell into the hands of his
nephew, and were printed by the latter under his own name without sufficient acknowledg-
ment”—Sabin 51215. The nephew, the Baron de Juras Reales, was a Spanish prisoner of
South American patriots when he published this, hence the title. Palau 183810 (“muy rara”).
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