Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

322 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Bostelmann, Enrique; photographer. América: un viage a través de la injusticia. [169] photographs in gravure on [160] pages. [15] preliminary pages plus illustrated endpapers. Oblong 4to, publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards, minimal wear; contents clean. In original illustrated tray case, minor soiling to top cover. Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1970 [1,200/1,800] first edition . The title translates to “America: A Journey through Injustice.” Bostelmann’s photo- graphs of poverty and oppression are presented without captions, introduced with a 7-page preface by the novelist Carlos Fuentes. “Bostelmann was one of Mexico’s leading postwar photojournalists. . . . and one looking to expose injustice everywhere. America: Un viaje a través de la injusticia is correctly considered his masterpiece. . . .The book is a photographic account of Bostelmann’s journeying through Latin America, looking at the injustices still meted out to the Indian and the mestizo in the region. . .. Bostelmann’s style is that of the gritty street photographer, but he has a cinematic sense of narrative and takes care not to be too dramatic, letting the pictures speak for themselves”—Parr & Badger,The Photobook:A History, pages II:110-1. 321 c   (PHILIPPINES.) Totanes, Sebastián de. Arte de la lengua Tacala y manual Tagalog. [16], 148, [6]; [2], 247, [3] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear; light browning throughout, coming disbound in spots, long closed tears to leaves T4-5. Sampaloc, Manila: Pedro Argüelles de la Concepcion, 1796 [1,000/1,500] Second edition of a guide to Tagalog, national language of the Philippines.Totanes was a Franciscan missionary in Mexico and the Philippines; the first edition was issued in 1745. Bound with Totanes’ Manual Tagalog as issued, with separate title page. Medina, Brevísimo epítome de la imprenta en Manila, 329-330; Palau 338006; Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca Filipina 2718. 322