74 242
129
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(PARAGUAY.) Fernández, Juan Patricio.
Historica relatio de apostolicis
missionibus . . . apud Chiquitos, Paraquariae populos.
[40], 276, [16] pages. 4to,
contemporary tree calf, worn, lacking spine head; moderate to heavy worming, toned and
foxed, lacking errata leaf; title page in red and black.
Augsburg: Wolff, 1733
[250/350]
FIRST LATIN EDITION
. Borba de Moraes, page I:305; European Americana 733/267;
Medina, BHA 2887; Palau 87904.
130
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(PARAGUAY.) Funes, Gregorio.
Ensayo de la historia civil del Paraguay,
Buenos-Ayres y Tucuman.
Portrait frontispiece. 3 volumes. 8vo, later
1
/
2
calf, minor
wear; moderate intermittent dampstaining. With half-titles and errata leaves.
FIRST EDITION
.
Palau 95861; Sabin 26211.
Buenos Aires: Gandarillas, 1816-17
[300/400]
131
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(PARAGUAY.)
Histoire de Nicolas I, Roy du Paraguai, et Empereur des
Mamelus.
117 pages. 12mo, later full morocco; possibly made up from two copies—the
first 4 gatherings are foxed, while the last is bright but heavily wormed with some repairs.
Saint Paul [France?], 1756
[300/400]
First or second edition. “This curious little book, a veritable novel of adventure, is considered to
be an anti-Jesuit pamphlet. . . . It is the first time that the bandeirantes of Piratininga served as
the theme for a novel”—Borba de Moraes, page I:404. Palau 114986.
132
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(PARAGUAY.)
Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions
etrangeres, par quelques missionaires de la Compagnie de Jesus. XXI Recueil.
Folding map of Paraguay. xxxi, [1], 486, [10] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, minor wear,
repaired to spine ends; short closed tear to map.
Paris: Le Clerc, 1734
[400/600]
Includes several letters from Jesuit missionaries in Paraguay, most translated from recently
printed Spanish sources. European Americana 734/110; Sabin 40697.
WITH
—XXV
Recueil, also containing several Paraguay letters, in a matched binding. European Americana
741/126. xxxii, [8], 486, [2] pages. Paris: Lemercier, 1741.
133
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(PARAGUAY.) Rodero, Gaspar.
Hechos de la verdad contra los artificios de
la calumnia . . . en defensa de la Missiones del Paraguay.
22, [1] leaves. Folio, later
cloth-backed boards; quite worn with extensive early repairs and some loss of text.
[Madrid, 1733?]
[300/400]
Presents letters in support of the Paraguay missions, in response to anonymous attacks. European
Americana 733/229; Palau 272048.
WITH
—pages 29-80 of the second expanded edition of
Rodero’s work circa 1745, in two slim folio calf-bound volumes, containing additional letters
relating to Paraguay by King Philip V and Joseph Peralta. European Americana 745/185.
134
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(PARAGUAY.) [San Diego y Villalon, Juan de.]
Memorial y defensorio al Rey
Nuestro Señor, por el credito, opinion, y derechos episcopales de . . . Bernar-
dino de Cardenas, obispo del Paraguay.
[5], 117 leaves. Folio, later cloth-backed
boards, moderate wear; lacking front free endpaper, title page somewhat soiled and
reinforced on edges, minor dampstaining
[Madrid, 1652?]
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
.
This memorial was presented to the king in 1652, but may have been printed
a few years later. It was written in response to a memorial by Father Julian de Pedraza, the
Jesuit procurator of the Indies, and relates to his ongoing dispute with Palafox, Bishop of
Puebla. European Americana 652/178; Medina, BHA 6872; Palau 43892 and 290478
(“Interesante para la historia de los jesuitas y de misiones religiosas de las Indias occiden-
tales”); Sabin 10805.