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1914CA0023xxiv843 pages with plates and index. Quarto 10 3/4" x 7 3/4" rebound in half red leather with gilt lettering to spine with original wrappers bound in. From the library of Zelia Nuttal and George M Foster. Limited to 500 copies. First edition. <br /><br />Cervantes de Salazar was one of the principal chroniclers who gathered data on the history and ethnography of Mexico. His most important book <i>Cronica de la Nueva Espana</i> <i>Chronicle of New Spain</i> written at the command of City Council. The manuscript of this work was sent by the author to Spain in 1567 with a request for the post of royal chronicler. This manuscript was uncovered in the early 1900s uncatalogued in the National Library of Madrid as an anonymous manuscript. the first volume was published in 1914 and the second and third in 1936. The <i>Chronicle</i> is fragmentary since the first part which was to include the period up to the conquest of Yucatan either was never written or was lost; and the second part which was to be a history of the conquest breaks off with Columbus sending Villafuerte and Sandoval to the Pacific Ocean. Cervantes de Salazar's sources were the <i>Letters</i> of Cortes; the memoirs of Alonso de Ojeda and Andres de Tapia captains in Cortes' army; the <i>Memoranda</i> of Motilinia; the work of Lopez de Gomara; and the information gathered from others who had taken part in the conquest who were sill living in Mexico City twenty-five years later from whom he received useful information. The <i>Chronicle</i> is valued for its understanding and evaluation of the events it describes.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />"With compliments of the Hispanic Society" slip tipped in and slip from the Congresso de los Diputados tipped in to copyright page with Nuttall's name as receiving copy number three which is such labeled of 500 copies. Foster's date of acquiry 10/4/44 on title. Original wrappers bound in and soiled some wear to edges of title inner hinge cracked else about very good. Hispanic Society hardcover books
1743WRCAM19690Cordoba 1743. 40474pp. printed in two columns. Folio. Contemporary calf stamped in gilt expertly rebacked with original backstrip fully retained leather label. Moderate edge wear. Some slight worming in upper margins. Lower forecorner of final text leaf torn affecting two words. Rear free endpaper lacking. Overall a very good copy. Although the work is described on the titlepage as the second part this is the scarce first edition complete in itself of Salazar's continuation of Antonio de Solis' history of Mexico. Most agree the present work does scant justice to the original but it does continue where Solis left off. SABIN 75594. PALAU 286883. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 743/197. MEDINA BHA 3339. hardcover books
1850WRCAM40467Mexico: Imprenta de Juan R. Navarro 1850. 123pp. plus two folding maps. Large octavo. Contemporary half calf spine gilt. Head of spine rubbed hinges cracking corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage lightly foxed minor scattered foxing. Very good. The author was the surveyor for the Mexican boundary survey after the Mexican-American War. This work describes his surveys from San Diego to the confluence of the Gila and Colorado rivers and much of the text consists of daily entries made between July 1849 and January 1850. The folding maps illustrate the port of San Diego and the area of California and Arizona around the junction of the two rivers. "Salazar gives the earliest detailed account of the previously unsurveyed border regions of California and Central Arizona" - Hill. This book is quite scarce on the market and this is only the third copy we have encountered in more than fifteen years. The Streeter copy sold to Dawson's Book Shop for $250 in 1968. STREETER SALE 2648. WAGNER-CAMP 190. HILL 1514. HOWES S47 "b." GRAFF 3652. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 690 691. PALAU 286944. Imprenta de Juan R. Navarro unknown books
177148666Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra . se hallaràen las librerias del mismo Ulloa calle de La Concepcion 1771. First edition 3 volumes folio pp. 4 xxviii 411 1; 4 443 1; xii 278; engraved portrait of the King folding numismatic plate of the coins struck during his reign plus an engraved genealogical tree of the family of Phillip III; woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials; contemporary full Spanish mottled calf bearing the supralibros of the Society of Writers to the Signet on all covers gilt-decorated spine in 7 compartments red and green morocco labels in 2; some spotting to the pastedowns of volume III but in all a fine and impressive set. According to the editor's design this work was to consist of seven volumes compiled from the best sources bringing the history down to Charles III 1759 but volumes IV-VII were never published. The title varies in volume III: Monarquia de España. Historia de la vida y hechos del inclito monarca amado y santo D. Felipe Tercero. Obra posthuma del maestro Gil Gonzalez Davila . Publicala don Bartholome Ulloa . Palau 286874; Lasala 281. <br/><br/> Por D. Joachin Ibarra ... se hallaràen las librerias del mismo Ulloa calle de La Concepcion unknown books
