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Item #3073 Vida admirable del siervo de Dios fray Antonio de San Pedro, religioso proffeso de los...
Scarce Judaica-Americana

Vida admirable del siervo de Dios fray Antonio de San Pedro, religioso proffeso de los descalzos De Nuestra Señora de la Merced; nacido en el Reyno de Portugal; convertido a la gracia de Dios prodigiosamente en el Reyno del Peru, en Lima; espantoso en virtudes, y casos peregrinos en el de España; vivió, y murió en ossuna con indezible opinion de Santidad. Escrivela el P. Fr. Juan de San Damaso, al presente Comendador del Convento de Señor San Joseph, de Sevilla, de los Descalços de nuestra Señora de la Merced. Con privilegio.

Impresso en Cadiz: por Juan Lorenzo Machado, Año de 1670. First edition. In contemporary limp vellum. Title lettered on spine. ff. [6] [1 (engraved plate)] 245 [17]. A scarce Americana and Judaica, the life of a Portuguese converso who became a merchant in Lima. The life of Antonio de..... More

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Item #3071 Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del gran Reyno de la China,...
First Edition of the Narrative of the Espejo-Expedition to New Mexico and Arizona (1582–1583)

Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros delos mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de Religiosos, y otras personas que han estado enel dicho Reyno. Hecha y ordenada por el muy Reverendo Padre Maestro Fray Juan Gonçalez de Mendoça dela Orden de S. Agustin, Predicador Apostolico, y Penitenciario de su Sanctidad. A quien la Magestad Catholica embio con su Real carta, y otras cosas para el Rey de aquel Reyno el año de 1580. Y nuevamente anãdida por el mesmo Autor. Al Illustriss. señor ernando de Vega y Fonseca del Consejo de su Magestad, y su Presidente enel Real delas Indias. Con un Itinerario el Nuevo Mundo.

Impressa en Madrid: : en casa de Querino Gerardo Flamenco, a costa de Blas de Robles librero, Año de. 158. First edition with the narrative of the Espejo-expedition, first Madrid edition. In later vellum, with ties, title lettered in ink on spine. Collation: Sign.: ¶12, A-Z8, 2A-2Z8; ff.: [12], 268..... More

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Item #3065 [Caption title:] Mémoire responsif, pour Jean Siber, ancien Conseiller au Conseil...
An Unrecorded Legal Brief Related to an Estate Near Léogâne, Saint-Domingue

[Caption title:] Mémoire responsif, pour Jean Siber, ancien Conseiller au Conseil Supérieur du petit Goave, séant au Port-au-Prince, Isle Saint-Domingue. Contre le Sieur Mathurin Prévot de Saint-Vincent, […].

A Bordeaux: Chez Michel Racle, Imprimeur de l’intendance, & de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, rue Saint-James, 1771. First edition. Unbound as published. 137 [3] p. Unrecorded publication of a legal case of inheritance of a planter family in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. This unrecorded legal brief contains the summary of an interesting and seemingly..... More

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Item #3060 Pacte Social. Projet. 9 Thermidor. A Washington. Par un François. [with: Seconde...
Washington reçois-en hommage. Liberté! Vérité!

Pacte Social. Projet. 9 Thermidor. A Washington. Par un François. [with: Seconde Partie]

A Paris: Chez Maret, Libraire, Palais Égalité, Cour des Fontaines, L’an trois de la République, [1795]. First edition. In published blue wrappers. Two parts in one volume. Title vignette on spine, lettered in ink. 80; 35 [=135] p. A scarce document of the French revolution by an admirer of Washington..... More

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Item #3053 Moi Libre aussi. Louis Simon Boizot, Louis Darcis
Iconography of the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1794

Moi Libre aussi.

Paris: : Se vend à Paris chez Depeuille, Rue Franciade, Section de Bon Conseil [François Jules Gabriel Depeuille], [1794]. First edition. Hand-colored engraving. In contemporary or near contemporary frame. Engraved by Louis Darcis, after Boizot (Boizot del.t : Darcis Sculp.t). Showing a black man with a red Phrygian liberty cap..... More

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Item #3050 Moi Egal à toi. […]. / En Liberté comme toi. […]. François Bonneville
Iconography of the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1794

Moi Egal à toi. […]. / En Liberté comme toi. […].

Paris: F. Bonneville del el Sculp, [1794]. Framed. Papar size: ca. 15 × 20 cm. Important public propaganda images commemorating the abolition of slavery in France in 1794. The abolition of slavery in Saint Domingue in 1793, a major achievement of the slave revolt, the Haitian Revolution, the..... More

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Item #3045 Histoire de la Catastrophe de Saint-Domingue, avec La Correspondance des généraux...
Rare Book on the Haitian Revolution

Histoire de la Catastrophe de Saint-Domingue, avec La Correspondance des généraux Leclerc (beau-frère de Bonaparte), Henry-Christophe (depuis roi d’Haïti), Hardy, Vilton, etc., certifiée conforme aux originaux déposés aux archives, par le lieutenant général Rouanez jeune, secrétaire d’état, publiées par A. J. B. Cressé, Auteur de Précis des Victoires et Conquêtes des Français dans les Deux-Mondes, de Histoire de la Marine de tous les peuples, depuis la plus haute antiquité jusqu’à nos jours, et de celle de France, sous Louis XV et ses successeurs. […].

Paris: Librairie de Peytieux, Galerie Delorme, 1824. . In contemporary leather. Panels with gilt floral frame, spine gilt with title vignette. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges. (4) VII (1) 156 p. An extremely scarce work on the history of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. The book opens with a...... More

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Item #3030 [Treaty of Madrid] Articles of Peace, entercourse, and Commerce, Concluded in the...
Scarce Anglo-Spanish Treaty, Related to Commerce in America

[Treaty of Madrid] Articles of Peace, entercourse, and Commerce, Concluded in the names of the most high and mighty Kings, Charles by the grace of God Kind of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. And Philip the fourth of Spain, &c. In a Treaty at Madrit, the fift day of Nouember after the old Stile, in the yeere of our Lord God M. DC. XXX. Translated out of Latine into English.

Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie; And by the Assignes of Iohn Bill, 1630. First edition. In later boards, vellum-paper spine with title. Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron to upper pastedown. [68] p. The Treaty of Madrid (1630), as the conclusion of..... More

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Item #3024 Voyage pittoresque en Californie et au Chili; Iles Malouines; – Terres...
A Scarce French Gold Rush Account; Reports of the French Filibustering Expeditions into Sonora

Voyage pittoresque en Californie et au Chili; Iles Malouines; – Terres Magellaniques; – Détroit de Magellan; – Terre-de-Feu; – Terre-des-États; – Cap-Horn; etc.; par M. Ch. de Lambertie, auteur de Maïna et d’Hermann. […]. [Bound with:] Le drame de la Sonora, l’état de Sonora, M. le Comte de Raousset-Boulbon et M. Charles de Pindray, par M. Charles Lambertie, Auteur du Voyage pittoresque en Californie, au Chili, au Mexique, etc. (Oeuvres de M. Lambertie. Histoire et voyages.)

Paris: Chez Ledoyen, Libraire-Éditeur, Galerie d’Orléans, ou chez l’Auteur, a Roumaziéres, prés Chabanais (Charente), 1853; 1855. Both works are first editions (Voyage pittoresque en Californie with the 2-page “Post-face”). In somewhat later hard paper binding, panels covered with blue paste paper. Spine with title vignette. XI [1] 295 [ie. 293]..... More

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Item #3021 De herba panacea, quam alii tabacum alii petum, aut Nicotianam vocant, brevis...
The First Book on Tobacco

De herba panacea, quam alii tabacum alii petum, aut Nicotianam vocant, brevis Commentariolus.

Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Antverpiae [Antwerp]:, 1587. First edition (a variant with 246 pages in the second part was published in the same year by the same publisher; no priority has been established). In 17th-century limp vellum. Title lettered in ink on spine. Occasional annotations and underlines by a 17th-century hand in..... More

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Item #3007 A rabszolga-kereskedő, vagyis ész szív nélkül. Jellemrajzok Észak-Amerika déli...
Catholic Stories taken place in southern states of North America.

A rabszolga-kereskedő, vagyis ész szív nélkül. Jellemrajzok Észak-Amerika déli államaitól (The slave traderwithout a mind or a heart. Character sketches of the southern states of North America.)

Budapest: Szent-István-Társulat, 1864. First Hungaraian edition. In contemporary half cloth. 166 p. Catholic Stories taken place in southern states of North America. More

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Item #3003 Az Éjszak-amerikai polgárháború története. (A History of the American Civil War...
With 2 maps of the American Civil War

Az Éjszak-amerikai polgárháború története. (A History of the American Civil War )

Budapest: Legarady, 1875. First edition. In contemporary half cloth. From the collection Gábor Eplényi, with his bookplate. 308+[4] p.+2 map Operation map for the campaigns along the Potomac and James Rivers. 42 x31 cm , Operation map. For General Sherman's campaign in Georgia in 1864. 46x31 cm. Color, fold-out lith..... More

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