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1804GEN17-C-1Windham: J. Byrne 1804. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 5.75" by 3.5". None. The first edition of The Opinion of Dow by the eccentric American preacher Lorenzo Dow. Bound in cloth. Lorenzo Dow 1777 1834 was an eccentric itinerant American preacher. He was an important figure in the Second Great Awakening. He was also a successful writer. His autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States exceeded only by the Bible. Dow's enthusiasm sustained him through the incessant labors of more than 30 years during which he preached in almost all parts of the United States. A fierce abolitionist Dow's sermons were often unpopular in the southern United States. His later efforts were directed chiefly against the Jesuits; indeed he was in general a vigorous opponent of Roman Catholicism. In a cloth binding. Externally there is almost no wear to the extremities. Internally the pages have browning that becomes significant to the first and last few pages and scattered spots. There is chipping and small closed tears to the first and last few pages with loss to pages 161-164 as shown above. Very Good J. Byrne hardcover
18203960Mexico City: Impreso en Madrid en la imprenta de Vega y compañia y reimpreso en México en la de D. Alejandro Valdés en dicho año 1820. Second edition. Very good. Small 4to. 26 pp. a little age toning. Recent drab wrappers lettered in manuscript. REPUBLICAN SPAIN COLLAPSES ERODING SPANISH DOMINION OVERSEAS: A WEIRD AND VERY LITTLE-KNOWN DIATRIBE CONCERNING THE 1820 SPANISH ELECTION SCANDAL INVOLVING LATIN-AMERICAN BORN REPRESENTATIVES IN THE NEWLY REFORMED SPANISH PARLIAMENT "CORTES OF CÃDIZ. This issue fueled the debate on the future of the former Spanish colonies in the Americas which openly advocated independence -- as here. <br /> <br /> In 1820 the provisional Cortes of Cádiz election board limited to 30 the number of Latin-American born substitute deputies which led to strong criticism across the Atlantic. Particular outrage was expressed by those born in the Americas and who had been summoned to Spain to elect the aforementioned substitutes on May 28 and 29 1820 an event which occasioned the present pamphlet. While the present text is more than 200 years old its venomous spew reminds us of more recent claims of "election fraud." The first paragraph of this "Manifesto on the Nullity of the Elections" conveys the foaming nonsensical language throughout:<br /> <br /> "The crazy or drunk populace often shout in the excess of their delirium: 'Long live our death Perish our life!' This sublime concept of Dante is the most faithful depiction of the power of seducers over the common imbecile. A strong genius a strong character an ambition without limits are the weapons with which an impostor attracts to his party a large number of weak spirits of little people. With the examples with modern and ancient history he presents the master of our political works. We do not need this to happen to know this truth to ancient or alien events. We continually see iniquitous men who disturb the internal peace of states and who sacrifice the most sacred rights of their compatriots for petty interests. Monster enemies of society you had to have a thousand heads and even then your blood would not compensate for the horrendous evil that your greed caused! What a horrible compromise in which the imprudence of a few American Spaniards constitutes me!"<br /> <br /> And finally the last paragraph which in its rhythmic desparation reminds us of Ginsburg's "Howl":<br /> <br /> "When America screams without her voices dissipating either by distance or the seas asking for help from her own children; when she presents them with her hands in manacles her feet in chains; when she discovers the aged and deep sores that her fanaticism and tyranny caused on her delicate body; when she stretches out her arms to rest on the chest of the beings she produced and to recover from the spirits that are beginning to fail her ah! She is neglected despised insulted. In what debates do we waste time when the Homeland demands our help What laurels do we think will cover us if our countries turn to ashes What peaceful sleep awaits us in abundance if we are continually agitated by the cries of our unfortunate people But the denatured American does not hear me: I turn to the European Spaniards and tell them with the most illustrious tragedy: You who have broken the chains that oppressed you generously defend the freedom of your brothers."<br /> <br /> It is a remarkable fact that the author Manuel Lorenzo de Vidaurre 1773-1841 was the enlightened liberal president of the first Peruvian Supreme Court see: Lissell Quiroz-Pérez "The Books and Private Libraries of Peruvian High Magistrates of the Nineteenth Century" in: Revue historique 658:2 2011 p. 265 et seq.<br /> <br /> Sabin 99488 Madrid and Mexico City editions. Impreso en Madrid en la imprenta de Vega y compañia, y reimpreso en México en la de D. Alejandro Valdés, en dicho año unknown
1820110613Um 1820. Auf Bütten. 17 x 13 cm (verso: 15 x 13 cm). 27,5 x 22,8 cm (Papier).
1853WRCAM18968Washington 1853. 198pp. plus large folding map detached and seventy-eight plates one folding some tinted. Original blindstamped cloth rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Light scattered foxing else very good. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851 crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert. This report is notable for its many lithographed plates of scenes along the route as well as flora and fauna. The natural history specimens are described by John Torrey. Wheat calls the map "a monumental achievement.generally correct and exceedingly well done." HOWES S521. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 763. FIELD 1414. WAGNER-CAMP 230:1. MEISEL III p.134. SABIN 81472. GRAFF 3809. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE VI p.403. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 130. hardcover books
1854WRCAM38923Washington: Beverley Tucker 1854. 198pp. plus seventy-eight plates some tinted one folding and large folding map. Original blindstamped cloth. Slight wear at head of spine and corners. Six-inch closed tear in map in a blank section with no loss. Scattered foxing on plates. A very good copy. Second printing with the same collation plates and maps as the first printing of the previous year but with plates 10 11 14 and 16 re-engraved and the misnumbering of the reptile plates corrected. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851 crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert. This report is notable for its many lithographic plates of scenes along the route as well as of flora and fauna and its large map. Of the latter Wheat remarks: "a monumental achievement.generally correct and exceedingly well done." Natural history specimens were described by John Torrey. WAGNER-CAMP 230:2. FIELD 1414. HOWES S521. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 763. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE VI p.403. MEISEL III p.134. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 130 ref. Beverley Tucker hardcover books
184434325Cambridge City Wayne CO: D. K. Winder Printer. Good with no dust jacket. 1844. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 64 pages; An Emigrant to the West. Published for the Benefit of Youth: By a Lover of the Studious. Thin 12mo 6 1/8 by 4 1/2 inches. errata leaf glossary leaf title leaf III-VII i 9-64pp. Quarter blue cloth and paper-covered boards. Wear to surface and edges of covers. Dampstained foxed fep worn with owners penciling old inkstains to rep old ink scribbling to ffep. A humorous little book that misapplies and fabricates words. For instance in a letter from Aquaticville July 30th 1842 One day the solar sphere had culminated being much defatigued from continuous insolation I gave way to a recubation under an umbrageous tree continguous to the went for the purpose of exercising my mandibles and masticators upon the contents of my viaticum Soon as my ophalmic organs had undergone entire patefaction I realized nubiferous gales in operation The streams assumed ampliations that might be called a local cataclysm. Aqueous dominations prevailed on earth; igneous puissance predominated in the nubiferous regions and a resistless ventosity maintained awful boations in the atmosphere. pp12-13. Quite a scarce little tome of interest to philologists collectors of both Juvenile and early Western USA materialas well as textbooks. Will always hold its own as one of the most curious books in the field of American textbooks. W/C locates but 17 copies in collections. 15.7cm tall. 1st issue. Walker 385 who got her entry from Wilberforce Eames. The 1850 second edition of this strange work with its endless Rabelaisian sequences of archaic words. He young tykes are encouraged to cultivate their little pates with such stupefying jawbreakers as cynogetics funambulist thrasonically and xeraphthalmy. " The second edition was published in Cincinnati 1850- that edition is substantially different from the first; having undergone thorough revision. Binding solid. . D. K. Winder, Printer. hardcover
18267538Mexico City: Mariano Galvez Rivera 1826. First edition. Quarto size pp 8 276 8. A history of Texcoco a city built by the Acolhuas a pre-Columbian people of the Náhuatl-speaking group of tribes and once the chief seat of Aztec culture. There is much information on the legendary past and particularly the great king of Texcoco Netzahualcoyotl. It appears that the text is basically that of Veytia based on notes and other material of Boturini with some editorial additions by Bustamante. Boturini 1702-51 educated in Milan and Vienna arrived in Mexico in 1736. Fired with the intention of writing a history of pre-Conquest Mexico he assembled a collection of mss in Náhuatl and Spanish now principally preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris which has never been equalled. Returning to Europe in 1744 Boturini worked on his Idea de una nueva historia general de la América Septentrional fundada sobre material copioso de figuras symbolos caracterer y jeroglÃficos cantares y manuscritos de autores indios ultimamente descubiertos Madrid 1746 which is an inventory of pictorial texts of Spanish-Indian history. In that work he was assisted by Mariano Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia. Veytia 1718 - 80 a native of Puebla was one of the great historians of pre-conquest Mexico of his day along with Clavigero and wrote on that subject as well as a history of his "querida" Puebla. He was a close friend of Boturini whose work in Mexico inspired his own studies. Carlos MarÃa de Bustamante 1774-1848 Mexican patriot politician journalist and pamphleteer was one of the intellectuals of the Insurrection movement. As well as recovering pre-Columbian and colonial mss Bustamante produced a number of historical works the most important of which is his Cuadro histórico de la revolución de la América mexicana 1823-32 which covers the period 1808-21. Ownership inscription on title-page: "Mexico 28 May 1834 J. H. Fritsch". Sabin 6835: Palau 33791. Some copies apparently have a folded map of the lake Texcoco - this copy does not and follows Palau's and Sabin's collation in that respect: further no plates or maps are called for in the index and no copies at auction indicate a map or plates. Contemporary mottled calf; covers decorated with a gilt border; gold-tooled spine; yellow-edged leaves. Very nice copy in excellent condition. <br/><br/> Mariano Galvez Rivera unknown books
1820C8881xvi17-340 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the Italian of Ercole dal Rio by J S Bingham. To which is prefixed an Essay on the origin of the game by Eyles Irwin. Whyld: 1820:14<br /><br />Translated from <i>Il guioco incomparablile degli schcchi</i> 1769 by Ponziani here erroneously attributed to Ercole del Rio. J S Bingham is a pseudonym of Captain John Smith RN "Quotes and queries" <i>British Chess Magazine</i> November 1978 page 523. Irwin's "Essay on the origin of the game is a paper on Chinese chess cited as <i>Whyld</i> 1795:3.<br /><br />Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor priest chess player composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing. Ponziani was friends with fellow Modenese chess players and writers Ercole del Rio and Giambattista Lolli and collectively the trio are known as the Modenese Masters. In 1769 Ponziani published the first edition of <i>Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi The Incomparable Game of Chess</i>. As Ponziani did not include his name in the work <i>Opera d'Autore Modenese</i> it was identified to the Anonymous Modenese. The second edition in 1782 was much improved and laid out the principles of the Italian school of chess as exemplified by 17th-century Italian masters such as Gioachino Greco. Although Ponziani identified himself in the second edition the 1820 translation by English naval officer J. B. Smith using the pen name J. S. Bingham <i>The Incomparable Game of Chess</i> attributed the work to del Rio. Ponziani's work is the best practical guide produced by the Modenese Masters. Like writings by del Rio and Lolli Ponziani deals only with the opening and endgame with no discussion of the middlegame. Murray H. J. R. 1913 <i>A History of Chess</i><br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />End papers renewed former owners solutions to problems tipped in at gutter next to problems. Point rubbed with some rubbing to boards. A very good copy of a scarce item. J J Stockdale hardcover
1820BOOKS008881xvi17-340 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the Italian of Ercole dal Rio by J S Bingham. To which is prefixed an Essay on the origin of the game by Eyles Irwin. Whyld: 1820:14 First English edition.Translated from Il guioco incomparablile degli schcchi 1769 by Ponziani here erroneously attributed to Ercole del Rio. J S Bingham is a pseudonym of Captain John Smith RN "Quotes and queries" British Chess Magazine November 1978 page 523. Irwin's "Essay on the origin of the game is a paper on Chinese chess cited as Whyld 1795:3.Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor priest chess player composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing. Ponziani was friends with fellow Modenese chess players and writers Ercole del Rio and Giambattista Lolli and collectively the trio are known as the Modenese Masters. In 1769 Ponziani published the first edition of Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi The Incomparable Game of Chess. As Ponziani did not include his name in the work Opera d'Autore Modenese it was identified to the Anonymous Modenese. The second edition in 1782 was much improved and laid out the principles of the Italian school of chess as exemplified by 17th-century Italian masters such as Gioachino Greco. Although Ponziani identified himself in the second edition the 1820 translation by English naval officer J. B. Smith using the pen name J. S. Bingham The Incomparable Game of Chess attributed the work to del Rio. Ponziani's work is the best practical guide produced by the Modenese Masters. Like writings by del Rio and Lolli Ponziani deals only with the opening and endgame with no discussion of the middlegame. Murray H. J. R. 1913 A History of ChessCondition:End papers stained previous owner's old signature on front end paper. Spine renewed with original spine label to spine. Points rubbed and bumped some soiling to else a very good copy of a scarce item. J J Stockdale hardcover
1880102098Barcelona: Libreria Sintes 1880. First edition thus. Hardbound in quarter calf. Overall and Near Fine to Fine- set with extremely light wear mild bump to one board corner some superficial chafing to spines. Very clean and tight. Apparently rarely used. Two large 4to in volumes in red quarter calf with gilted and beveled titles and ornaments; 1599 pages in total; numerous color full-page plates. 31.5 x 24 cm. Rare. In Spanish. OCLC lists but a single holding of a Libreria Sintes edicion and it is apparently a one-volume edition or only one of the volumes. Appears to never have been translated into English. Also appears complete in two volumes as spines have printed on them "A-0" and "P-Z" respectively. Shipping at cost. // Freemasons Dictionaries. Libreria Sintes unknown
188734932Guatemala: Tip. de El Progreso / La Union 1887. First editions. Vol. 1 quarter red morocco; vols. 2-7 original blank paper wrappers as issued. Volumes 2-7 unopened uncut and untrimmed as sold hence some edges worn and soiled scattered foxing blank wrappers quite worn torn and soiled some toning to half titles or titles otherwise trimmed size is internally near fine; volume 1 extremities worn small chip at head of spine and joint split at top. Booksellers stamp to title page of one volume. Illus. 8vo. This is the most famous 19th c. work on Central America and a very important regional history by an anti-clerical and liberal historian Lorenzo Montufar y Rivera Maestre 1823-1898 who as foreign minister of Costa Rica helped organize the Central American defense against William Walker and was frequently exiled for his opposition to the dictator Rafael Carrera. Bancroft and many other historians relied very heavily on Montufar's work and thus his subsequent influence on both English and Spanish language histories has been quite substantial. Stamp of bookseller: Libreria Juan Capella en Guatemala on one leaf. Uncommon in this mostly unaltered state; ABPC shows only one copy at auction in the last quarter century. Palau 179837. Spain & Spanish America II 393 V.1-5. Grieb Central America 263. Villacorta BibliografÃa guatemalteca 1078-1084. Griffin 4376. Tip. de El Progreso / La Union unknown books
1853730621853. SITGREAVES Lorenzo. Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers. Washington: Robert Armstrong Public Printer 1853. 198pp. 78 plates one folding some tinted large folding map. Contemporary gilt-rule 3/4 morocco and marbled boards gilt-decorated raised spine bands. Title page trimmed no loss to text faint scattered else very good. Howes S-521. Wheat Transmississippi 763. Field 1414. Wagner-Camp 230:1. Meisel III. p. 134. Sabin 81472. Graff 3809. Taxonomic Literature VI p. 403. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851 crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert. This report is notable for its many lithographed plates of scenes along the route as well as flora and fauna. The natural history specimens are described by John Torrey. Wheat calls the map "a monumental achievement. generally correct and exceedingly well done. unknown
1882049237Boston: H. L. Hastings 1882. First edition 1882 copyright 1881. Hastings was a noted Seventh Day Adventist preacher and evangelist who experienced the Great Disappointment of 1844 and was the son of a Millerite Adventist preacher. The stories of divine intervention in this book were recorded by Hastings and are separated into three sections: Relief and Deliverance; Dreams and Impressions; and Conversions. Fair condition in brown cloth printed in gilt and black 382 pages plus 8 pages of publisher's ads. Covers heavily rubbed at the extremities with fraying to corners and spine ends hinges internally cracked but secure text block quite shaken with some sections only remaining attached by one binder cord pages lightly age-toned with occasional foxing musty odor no names or other markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. H. L. Hastings Hardcover
18414790Naples: Filiatre Sebezio 1841. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin sewn on 3 recessed cords shell on shell marbled sides gold- and black-tooled spine with title in 2nd of 5 fields. Super Royal except ad 1 Demy 8vo mostly in 4s. 5 works in 1 vol. With:2 IDEM. Agl'illustri scienziati del settimo congresso Italiano. offre e dedica nel presente atlante ripristinate nel loro stato naturale le varie deformita che nello spazio di un quinquennio ha avuto a curore nella clinica. Naples Filiatre Sebezio 1845. With 2 double-page and 14 full-page lithographs.3 IDEM. Su i vantaggi che la ginnastica apporta al fisico al morale e a qualche malattia costituzionale. Naples Filiatre Sebezio 1844.4 IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1841. Naples Ministero di Stato degli affari interni 1841. With 4 folding lithographed plates 20 x 24 cm.5 IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1842. Naples Filiatre Sebezio 1842. With 3 lithographed plates including 1 folding 19.5 x 23.5 cm. Five rare works by the Italian orthopaedist Lorenzo Bruni all in the original Italian ad 1 in its second edition and the others in their first and only editions.Ad. 1: Second edition of Bruni's lecture on the Achilles' tendon delivered to the Academy of Medical Surgery on 28 July 1838.Ad. 2: Atlas of 16 lithographed plates 2 double-page depicting several deformities of human feet hands knees legs and heads as well as some orthopaedic tools.Ad. 3: Treatise on the benefits of gymnastics.Ad. 4: Observations on deformities of hands feet and face in the form of short case studies of people who have those deformities illustrated with 4 folding lithographed plates.Ad. 5: 1842 edition of clinical results discussing deformities of legs eyes and the spine illustrated with 3 lithographed plates including 1 folding.The texts and plates are printed on unwatermarked wove paper but that of the text differs from that of the plates. The paper used for the text of at least ad 4 is a fairly early example of machine-made paper used for quality book-printing the belt seam left a sort of watermark running across leaves 5 and 6 of quire 1 near the foot of the text.In good condition. Some foxing throughout largely confined to the text leaves.l ICCU Cat. SBN 2 4 3 8 5 copies; not in Garrison & Morton; Meier Kiefer cat.; Norman Lib.; Wellcome Library. Filiatre Sebezio, unknown
181517771AB1815. 10 volumes Pisa Capurro 1815. 15 : 10 cm. With engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half calf spine gilt back label. Rare as complete as here in 10 volumes. - This work by Pignotti medical doctor poet and historian is a useful and instructive compilation of Toscany. - Exlibris title-page with small collectors stamp. - Nicely bound complete set. unknown
1830636New York 1830. Very good. Broadside form approximately 12.5 x 8.25 inches. Formerly mounted with some adhesive remnants at top edge. Light creasing at lower edge. Faint foxing. A subscription form for the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company which sought to attract colonists to land granted to Lorenzo de Zavala Joseph Vehlein and David G. Burnet in southeast Texas in the early 1830s. The present form is completed for one of the principal land owners in the scheme Lorenzo de Zavala and is signed by him on the verso. Zavala went on to play a major role in the Texas Revolution and became the first Vice President of the Republic of Texas. "The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company was founded in New York on October 16 1830 for the purpose of colonizing the lands assigned to the empresarios Joseph Vehlein David G. Burnet and Lorenzo de Zavala. The colonization contracts covered an area in East Texas lying east of the San Jacinto River and south of a line running twenty leagues north of Nacogdoches 3743163 acres. The company a real-estate promotion firm with agents land counselors surveyors and salesmen did not own land itself but sold scrip that allowed the settlers simply to move into the area allotted to the three empresarios. There the settlers had to complete all requirements of the Mexican colonization law before they could obtain title to land" - Texas State Handbook Online. "The certificate lists by date the four grants there were two grants to Vehlein to the three empresarios and gives the boundaries of the resulting tract. At the end is a provision that the location of the land is to be under the supervision of the agent 'residing on the land' of the Trustees who on surrender of the scrip reports to the Commissioner appointed by the Government who issues titles 'Subject to the payments required by the Laws of the State'" - Streeter. An excellent association copy of this early Texas land promotion document. Streeter Sale 304. Streeter Texas 1117. unknown books
1834351919Paris: Imprenta De Decourchant 1834. First edition. vii 374pp. Scattered annotations. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco marbled endpapers. Minor foxing and toning. First edition. vii 374pp. Scattered annotations. 12mo. Exiled from Mexico in 1830 Zavala came to New York to seek colonization for his empresario grants in southeastern Texas transferring his interests to the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. "From December 1832 until October 1833 he again served as governor of the state of Mexico before returning to the Congress as a deputy for his native state of Yucatán. Named by President Antonio López de Santa Anna in October 1833 to serve as the first minister plenipotentiary of the Mexican legation in Paris he reported to that post in the spring of 1834. When he learned that Santa Anna had assumed dictatorial powers in April of that year Zavala denounced his former ally and resigned from his diplomatic assignment. Disregarding Santa Anna's orders to return to Mexico City he traveled to New York and then to Texas where he arrived in July 1835. From the day of his arrival he was drawn into the political caldron of Texas politics. Although he first advocated the cause of Mexican Federalism within a few weeks he became an active supporter of the independence movement; he served in the Permanent Council and later as the representative of Harrisburg in the Consultation and the Convention of 1836. At the convention he signed the Texas Declaration of Independence along with Jose Francisco Ruiz Jose Antonio Navarro and fifty-six other delegates" Handbook of Texas. <br /> <br /> The present work described his journey and impressions of the United States during his visit from 1830-1831 and was published while stationed in Paris in 1834. Raines praises the work as "One of the few books of travel in the U.S. worth reading. A fine picture of American manners customs and institutions by a Mexican republican with some notice of Austin's colonization in Texas . A true patriot and uncompromising lover of liberty" Raines. <br /> <br /> The work is further noted as "an incredibly important although little known.meticulously written narrative about the democratic culture and institutions of the United States. Zavala's narrative not only stands as a major document of early Mexican-American letters but also as one of the first theoretical and ethnographic examinations of democracy as a political and cultural institution. Thus Zavala's book challenges the widespread acceptance by American scholars that Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in America 1835 is the first book to take United States democracy as a focus of political and cultural study . Zavala's story of democratic peoplehood will no doubt in time be read as one of the founding political texts of U.S. and Mexican democratic culture" John-Michael Rivera in the introduction of the 2005 English translation of the present work published by Arte Público Press University of Houston 2005. Clark Old South III:118; Howes Z3; Palau 378349; Raines p. 224; Sabin 106280; Streeter Texas 1156 Imprenta De Decourchant unknown
18333694Mexico City 1833. About very good. Broadsheet approximately 12 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded. Light wear at edges and along old fold. Moderate dust soiling. In a red cloth slipcase. An animated and rare 1833 broadsheet attack on the political beliefs and actions of Lorenzo de Zavala one of the foundational figures of the Texas Republic. Zavala was a prominent liberal Mexican politician who helped to draft the Constitution of 1824 and served as president of Congress and Secretary of Finance. In 1829 he began investing in Texan lands thus beginning his close involvement in Texas. When this document was issued Zavala was serving as Governor of the State of Mexico. <br /> <br /> The present address styled as an open letter to Mexican president Santa Anna and dated June 1 1833 from Tlalpan was authored by conservative General Gabriel Durán who makes a vehement attack on Zavala's patriotism and character urging Santa Anna to cut ties with Zavala completely. In translation Duran urges the Mexican president to defend "The State of Mexico oppressed and degraded by an impious audacious and insolent faction.that took by assault the sovereign executive powers enabling Lorenzo Zavala a famous criminal despised in general by the nation." In order to "Sustain the sovereignty of the nation in spite of the violent jolt and ill-fated attacks of the anarchy" Duran offers Santa Anna the military support needed to halt "A schism and the violation of our sacred religion and the restlessness of proprietors of being despoiled of their properties will be forever dissipated." He completes his address by offering an eight-point plan to "annul the elections where de Zavala was triumphant" and to regain power in the region surrounding Mexico City.<br /> <br /> Durán's message was not at first heeded by Santa Anna who appointed Zavala as Minister to France in October 1833. However in reaction to Santa Anna's dictatorial proclivities Zavala resigned his position in 1834 and never returned to Mexico. He settled in Texas in 1835 when it was on the cusp of revolution and helped to draft the Texas Constitution before serving as the Republic's first Vice President. We locate only two copies at the Sutro and British Libraries.<br /> Sutro Collection Pamphlets p.690. unknown
1827007797Napoli: Stamperia Real 1827. First Edition. Quarter Morocco. Very Good. A glorious memorial to the fun-loving Bourbon Neapolitan court of the day. Folio 33.5 by 23.5 cm. 19 1 pp. followed by 11 hand-colored plates and 220 cm long concertina or leporello depicting a procession of sorts or perhaps a frieze of the masqueraders 84 in all and all of whom are hand-colored figures. Below the line-up of dancers on the frieze are nine separate excerpts of musical notation. Eight of these are for various quadrilles with the title of the particular dances above the bars of music. The ninth music quotation is for a Persian march its participants the ones depicted in the eleven larger plates. The actual people at the masquerade and represented by the illustrations are listed and keyed in the text portion. The names are rich in the titled and the English are also well-represented with a few familiar names such as Acton among them. Contemporary binding both leather spine and paper pastedown on boards fairly heavily rubbed. Light foxing throughout. Repaired closed tear repair on frieze. The concertina is folded in an unusual manner and thus requires care when opening it up. Hand-colored figures are all bright. Stamperia Real unknown
18401613Florence: Lorenzo Bardi 1840. Very good. Oblong quarto 7 3/4 11 inches 195 x 280 mm. 18 aquatint plates engraved by G. Carrocci and others image size 14 x 19 cm plate mark size 18 x 25 cm with superb hand coloring in heavy watercolor and gouache within black line and grey gouache borders. Preceded by a dedication page printed on blue paper; original upper wrapper with aquatint vignette also printed on blue paper bound in. Contemporary red sheep-backed boards rubbed with brown calf spine. <br /> Provenance: Library of Norman Bobins.<br /> Bobins vol. 5 1675. Exceptionally fine series of views of Florence landmarks with a few from Pisa being a new version of Zocchi's "Scelta di XXIV vedute delle principali contrade piazze chiese e palazzi della città di Firenze" first published in 1744. Lorenzo Bardi unknown
