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(PERU.) Ulloa, Antonio de; and Jorge Juan y Santacilla.
Relacion historica del
viage a la America Meridional.
11 (of 12) maps, 22 (of 23) plates, and text illustrations.
[24], 404, [4], 405-682; [12], 379, [4], 381-603, cxcv pages. 4 volumes in 2. Large 4to,
contemporary calf, worn, backstrips chipped; intermittent moderate dampstaining, minor
worming to the first few leaves only, lacking a map and the large historical plate from the
final volume, edges tinted red; title pages in red and black; early inscriptions on title pages.
Madrid: Marín, 1748
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
.
The 1735 French Geodesic Mission measured the curvature of the earth at
the equator in what is now Ecuador. Ulloa and Juan y Santacilla were Spanish naval officers
who accompanied the expedition. On their return, they published this important study of their
travels, with a particular focus on Peruvian and Incan culture. Offered without the related
“Observacions astronomica y phisicas” volume that was issued at the same time. European
Americana 748/206; Hill 1739; Medina, BHA 3464; Palau 125471; Sabin 36811.
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(PHILIPPINES.) Carrillo, Manuel.
Breve, y verdadera relacion de los
progressos de las missiones de Igorrotes, Tinguianes, Apayaos, y Adanes . . . en
los Montes de Pangasinan, é ilocos de las Islas Philipinas.
35 pages. 4to, later
patterned wrappers, minor wear; minor dampstaining.
Madrid: Ibarra, 1760
[600/900]
Second edition. An account of Augustinian missionaries in the Philippines. Palau 45494 (“es
más rara que la primera”). Neither edition known at auction since 1967.
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(PHILIPPINES.)
Recurso humilde, y religioso, que en defensa de sus
apostólicos privilégios, vulnerados por la sentencia.
[2], 46 pages. Folio, disbound in
two sections; lacking upper corner of title page (restored) with loss to border, moderate
dampstaining, signatures on final page preserved with some kind of shellac.
[Madrid, circa 1740?]
[250/350]
This printed document relates to the Franciscans in the Philippines, and is signed on the final
page by 5 friars who served there: Sebastián de Totanes, Blas de Sta. María, Francisco de la
Fuente, Pasqual de la Cruz, and Sebastián de Saavedra (per Gómez Platero’s “Catálogo
biográfico de los religiosos franciscanos”). Provenance: Swann sale, 18 September 1986, lot 233.
Medina, México 3559 (questioning whether this is a Mexican imprint); 2 copies in OCLC.
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