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(PARAGUAY.) Xarque, Francisco.
Insignes missioneros de la Compañía de
Jesus en la Provincia del Paraguay.
[24], 432 pages plus final blank. 4to, modern calf
gilt, minor wear; title page and front free endpaper detached, title a bit worn with tasteful
conservation on verso, first 8 preliminary leaves a bit short and possibly supplied, moderate
foxing, minor dampstaining, a few side-notes cropped; unidentified bookplate on front
pastedown.
Pamplona: Micón, 1687
[2,500/3,500]
“
A classic and very rare work. The third part includes a description of the reducción system and
the war against the Portuguese on the island of San Gabriel”—Borba de Moraes, page II:947.
European Americana 687/147; Medina, BHA 1808; Palau 123233; Sabin 105716.
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(PARAGUAY.) Sepp, Anton.
Group of 3 works by the Austrian Jesuit
missionary.
Various sizes, bindings, and conditions.
Vp, 1698-1710
[400/600]
RR. PP. Antonii Sepp und Antonii Böhm . . . Reissbeschrebung wie dieselbe aus Hispanien
in Paraquariam kommen. 12mo, modern full morocco; lacks folding plate (present in facsimile).
Nurenberg: Hoffmanns, 1698 * An Account of a Voyage from Spain to Paraquaria. Folio,
modern
1
/
4
calf; pages [633]-664 only, extracted from Churchill’s voyages. [London, A & J
Churchill, 1704] * Continuatio laborum apostolicorum quos Antonius Sepp. Ingolstadt: La
Haye, 1710. European Americana 698/201, 704/32, 710/137.
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