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1897464381897. Fair to very good or better. Spanning 110 years 64 different titles nearly 2000 issues and tens of thousands of pages with numerous illustrations both black and white and colored. A few are more popular titles but most are quite uncommon rarely for sale found only at a few institutions a number only at the Duque de T' Serclaes periodical collection at the Univ. Connecticut. Many of the Cadiz publications remarkably have only scattered holdings. The content is varied from the first Spanish periodical edited by a woman to a description of the massive defeat of the Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar just after it occurred to periodicals aimed at women illustrated with color fashion plates including a very rare set of periodicals from a philanthropic organization whose goal was to educate the people free of chargeto satire to politics such as the transfer of the Cortes to Madrid and so on. Detailed list upon request. unknown
18142677Hunthill House Scotland 1814. Written in English in a small and narrow but legible italic hand with occasional corrections or additions in a different hand on wove paper watermarked Budgen & Wilmott / 1812. Four unnumbered pages of French text at front and four at back the latter dated 27 May 1814 in a different hand apparently the author’s on different paper with no visible watermark. Very good; some occasional spotting. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt edges scuffed and scraped joints strained head of spine chipped.<br /> <br /> An unpublished first-hand memoir filled with searing descriptions of the horrors of war by a French army officer veteran of the terrible Peninsular War. The narrator was one of few survivors of the surrender of French forces after the Battle of Bailén in July 1808. The background to this event was Napoleon's attempt to complete the isolation of England from the continent by sending a French army into the Iberian Peninsula to occupy Portugal and Spain thereby preventing British trade with the Continent.  Napoleon later referred to the Peninsular War characterized by appalling cruelty on both sides as the ‘Spanish ulcer’; it was to be one of the primary factors in his downfall. <br /> <br /> General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang was charged with securing French control of the major cities in Spain. Dupont's 20000 men had initial success but as they penetrated deeper into Spain they faced increasing resistance. This memoir by H. de Montvaillant an 18-year-old Protestant officer from Montpellier who was serving in the second Corps d’Observation of the Gironde recounts the route and experiences of Dupont's army to its furthest point of penetration into Spain: Córdoba. There after a particularly bloody and cruel occupation the army was forced to withdraw and was soon overwhelmed. Dupont surrendered his army at Bailén. Originally promised safe passage most of the French were slaughtered immediately after their surrender. <br /> <br /> Montvaillant’s account commences with the French arrival in Bayonne in November 1807. By December 22 the French troops had arrived in the town of Vittoria 50 miles west of Pamplona and by January 9 1808 they had advanced to south of Burgos. Detailed descriptions of the monuments churches libraries art and inhabitants of various localities passed through in their zigzagging progress south through French-occupied Spain enliven this first part of Montvaillant’s narrative: he describes with evident pleasure Burgos Valladolid Guadarrama and the Escorial Madrid and Toledo where the troops spent most of May. He makes the acquaintance of many Spaniards. In Toledo a young woman explains to him the contradictions of Spanish women rendered emotionally susceptible by their extreme religious devotion but whose sometimes shocking to the French frankness contrasts with a strict sexual morality. Later he deplores the time wasted in Toledo while the Spanish insurgents were building up their strength. <br /> <br /> As the French troops proceed southward the local populations exhibit increasing hostility often hidden under excessive politeness. They encounter a Frenchwoman who has fled Bailén saying that she was not safe there because of her nationality but the soldiers assume that she exaggerates. By the end of May the French pass the Sierra Morena and enter Andalusia and the truth becomes evident. It is at this point that the narrative takes on an ominous tone. Montvaillant notes that the population had abandoned the villages taking all foodstuffs. He records that the senior officers had assumed that the army would only be harassed by small bands of “brigands†a far cry from the massive resistance that it encountered: “We learned that the insurgents each day gathered strength and that the Junta of Seville was determined to stop us in our March. The following day we got to the little town Baylen in whose plains two months afterwards our destiny was decided†p. 86. <br /> <br /> The first battle was engaged at Alcoléa just upstream from Córdoba an event Montvaillant describes in a poem in French transcribed. The next day the French arrived at Córdoba where the Spanish enemy had taken refuge. A musketry attack upon their arrival so enraged General Dupont that “he gave up the town to pillage" p. 88. Allowed to run wild the French soldiers sacked the city committing hideous crimes: “Neither tears promises or humble supplications could arrest the thirst for pillage.†p. 89. Discipline was nonexistent drunkenness and looting continued for eight days. The soldiers raped the women and ransacked homes. Montvaillant presents himself as a savior of women and the elderly on several occasions but notes that some of the Spanish whom he and fellow officers placed under protection in Córdoba were later “the first to persecute the unprotected French prisoners and even those who had been their Benefactors†p. 92. While he does not detail the contents of the soldiers’ plunder it is known that the rich churches of Córdoba were heavily looted. Notwithstanding the circumstances he manages to visit and describes in amazement the great mosque-cathedral scarcely changed in a thousand years. <br /> <br /> Nine days after the French entrance into Córdoba Montvaillant and his troops were ordered back to Alcolea to guard a bridge crossing. En route there from Cordóba he discovered and graphically describes the many mutilated corpses of the French sick and wounded who had been left along the line of march while the main body of General Dupont's troops had taken Córdoba. “It is almost incredible how people calling themselves Christians could push inhumanity to such an excess†p. 96.<br /> <br /> The army moved back to Andújar near Bailén and encamped. Montvaillant records that the general staff had by now realized that the French were outnumbered and that the opposition had organized itself. Dupont's army was isolated without hope of reinforcement or re-supply defending a garrison situated on a flat plain in the scorching sun. The narrative becomes one of revenge heat troop dispositions losses tactical mistakes errors of the general staff and increasing difficulties. Dupont's surrender came on July 20 1808 and thus begins the second part of the memoir devoted to the narrator’s experiences as a prisoner of war. <br /> <br /> The officers were segregated from the defeated army before being escorted supposedly to return to France. Most of the army was slaughtered within days. Montvaillant records details of the survivors’ months-long “death march†southwards to the coast. Having finally arrived at Jerez de la Frontera near Cádiz to await embarkation to France they waited in vain. Their captors kept them in Jerez having discovered that the ruling Junta of Seville had abrogated the surrender treaty and that the inhabitants were planning to massacre them on their approach to Cádiz. Montvaillant’s account is henceforth devoted to anecdotes of captivity and of the prisoner’s horrendous treatment at the hands of their escorts and guards. He is unclear as to exact dates but it seems that the French captives were held at Jerez until mid-December and then hastily driven aboard ships to sail for the Balearic Islands. A severe storm intervened and they were blown off course to Africa finally coming to port at Gibraltar; several days later they were blown back to Andalusia at Málaga. After more storms and much sailing having been at sea 25 days for a voyage which normally took a week they finally made the Balearics. <br /> <br /> And here the worst surprise of many bad surprises awaited them: the desert island of Cabrera. Montvaillant counts some 4000 soldiers and 400 officers who were forced to survive as best they could on this scorching hot nearly waterless uninhabited island p. 148. Details of his account square with Denis Smith’s monograph on the subject. During the next four years close to 9400 French prisoners of war were exiled to this island; possibly 40% died of disease or malnutrition. The officers as usual fared much better than their soldiers. Montvaillant was one of 216 officers who were collected from this exile after a month and taken to the capital Palma p. 150; another group was sent to Mahon in Minorca. There imprisoned in better circumstances the group waited although the news from outside was threatening as the Spanish "mobs" were calling for their "sacrifice." The officers between attempting escapes were able to conjure up some distractions. The narrator passed the time translating Spanish poems and plays and spending up to eight hours at a stretch playing chess. They also freely imbibed the good Mallorcan wine danced and partied; making do without women Bacchus presided as he delicately puts it. <br /> <br /> But nearly half these officers were massacred during a riot and assault on the prison by the inhabitants of Palma described by Montvaillant in gory detail pp. 158-162. The survivors were returned to Cabrera in March 1810 as were the officers from Mahon. They found there a diminished population of half-naked walking skeletons. During the next five months spent on Cabrera Montvaillant was nonetheless able to observe a thriving “political economy†on the island where enough food was still provided that the prisoners had the energy for theater productions and dances. Describing the gender-bending that took place as the men playing female roles in the performances instinctively took on conventionally feminine attitudes even to the point of inspiring crushes bickering and jealousy among the audience members Montvaillant comments that the theatrical chronicle of Cabrera would make quite a book â€un bel in folioâ€- p. 170.<br /> <p>In early August Montvaillant and the officers were removed from the island on an English ship — all unhesitatingly leaving their men to rot on the island where they remained for four more years. A diplomatic impasse kept the officers off the coast at Gibraltar for several weeks until they were finally put on ships for Portsmouth and Plymouth. Montvaillaint went on to Salisbury for a short time and then embarked again for Leith en route to his final destination in Scotland where he remained in comfortable exile until the accession of Louis XVIII in 1814. <br /> <br /> The text is written in an occasionally stilted English a translation from the author’s own French account by a family whom he had befriended at Hunthill House near Jedburgh Scotland where he stationed. Eight pages of notes in French by the author are inserted four pages at the beginning the bifolium is inserted using wax seals and four pages at the end. The French preface contains a romanticized account of the author’s Scottish sojourn including a temptress fairy and concludes with the author’s promise to never forget his friends in Scotland. The English text is preceded by the title-leaf and a one-page dedicatory poem introduced by a statement that these “`Recollections’ in an English Garb are presented by the sincerest of Friends to the Author†and dated Hunt Hill 1 January 1814. <br /> <br /> Following the narrative in a letter to his family dated from Jedburgh 27 May 1814 Montvaillant explains the history of the manuscript the remaining pages contain literary notes including translations into French of poems by Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. During his years of exile in Jedburgh Montvaillant had become deeply attached to the owners of Hunthill House and to their three daughters. Without them he claims he would not have survived the loneliness of his exile. In homage and gratitude he dedicated his memoir to them. His friends retained the original French version as a keepsake of their friend and an engrossing biographical narrative and presented him with this translation which he brought back to France planning to render it anew into French to share with his family and close friends. He emphasizes that he plans to keep the manuscript unpublished; perhaps the memories were too painful. <br /> <br /> Cf. Denis Smith The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon's Forgotten Soldiers 1809-1814 New York 2001.</p> unknown
1893236066London: Chiswick Press 1893. No. 11 of 13 copies printed on vellum there were also 88 copies printed on paper. Title with vignette numerous woodcut illustrations and large initial capitals. 1 vols. Folio 12-3/4 x 8-7/8 in.; 32.4 x 22.5 cm. Loose as issued in publisher's decorated board portfolio with maroon velvet straps in publisher's maroon morocco-backed clamshell box with printed label on upper cover; box worn a few rust marks on upper board. No. 11 of 13 copies printed on vellum there were also 88 copies printed on paper. Title with vignette numerous woodcut illustrations and large initial capitals. 1 vols. Folio 12-3/4 x 8-7/8 in.; 32.4 x 22.5 cm. This work consists of two important ordinances issued by the Spanish monarchy on November 20 1542 and June 4 1543. Under the active influence of Bartolomeo de las Casas "friend of the Indians" the new laws had the special design of ensuring better treatment of the Indians limiting the distribution of their lands and above all protecting them against enslavement by the conquering Spaniards. <br /> <br /> "Las Leyes Nuevas" are reprinted here in this fine facsimile from the copy on vellum in the British Museum and are followed by an English translation. Much of the book is taken up by the historical Introduction by Henry Stevens who denounces the Spanish mistreatment of the Indians. Ironically the Spanish crown was later forced to rescind the new laws by colonists who were outraged at having to give up their right to a quota of enslaved Indian laborers.<br /> <br /> A magnificent and impressive production by the Chiswick Press one of only 13 printed on vellum. Chiswick Press unknown
18212758Spain: s.n 1821. First edition. Unbound as published. Signed at the end undecipherable. With date 1821 29. de Enero and summary note on the first page by a contemporary hand in ink. Folded once. Small closed tears at the gutter. Sporadic foxing. In fine condition. First edition. Unbound as published. 4 p. A scarce royal decree on the creation and definition of the office of the General Superintendency in the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas.<br /> During the dusk of the Spanish Empire a bulk of administrative reforms were introduced trying to avoid the disintegration of the overseas territories especially in the Americas. By the present royal instruction Fernando VII introduced the office of the Superintendencies in the Viceroyalties of New Spain Peru New Granada and Buenos Aires the RÃo de la Plata and detailed the duties of the position in fifteen articles. <p><br /> <br /> “Y ellà también el de 29 de enero de 1811sic! impreso que contiene una Instrucción en 15 ArtÃculos para los nuevos Superintendentes que por la misma fuerza de los principios liberales quedaban privados de todo conocimiento en los asuntos contenciosos de Real Hacienda lo cual era también aplicable a la Junta Superior y del Vice-Patronato que tampoco tendrÃan los Intendentes porque lógicaÂmente pasaba a los Gobenadores polÃticos. Por supuesto estaba abolido el Fuero de Hacienda y se les cortaba casi totalmente cualquier inicitiva para reformar el sistema. De 3 y 4 de noviembre de 1820 datan las propuestas para la separación de la Superintendencia …. El Real Decreto de 29 de enero de 1821 pasó a las Cortes en 7 de marzo siendo aprobado en 7 de abril ….†Navarro GarcÃa 1959 p. 147 note 61; text reproduced: pp. 221–6<p><br /> <br /> Scarce we could trace only one copy in Spain at the Biblioteca Lázaro Galdiano IB 11662-50.<br /> Literature: Navarro GarcÃa L.: Intendencias en Indias. Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos. 1959. [s.n] unknown
181518769AB1815. 6 volumes. Paris Nepveu 1815. 135 : 9 cm. With 54 partly folded engraved plates. Red contemporary calf binding spine richly decorated in gold 2 red back labels ornamental burdure on the boards. Rare describtion of the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal with beautiful engraved illustrations of small gengre-scenes farmers military persons religious persons bull fight traditional costumes dancing scenes views and so on. -Very mint copy in extraordinary decorative bindings. - Brunet I 1226; Graesse I 530; Colas 439; Hiler 113; Lipperheide Jc 8. hardcover
18152757Spain 1815. First edition. Unbound as published. Dated on the top of the first page and numbered at the lower left corner in ink by a contemporary hand. Printed on Santiago Serra’s paper: watermark of an ornamented Maltese cross and the word “Capelladesâ€. In fine condition. First edition. Unbound as published. 4 p. <p><br /> Royal order concerning the establishment and finance of schools in Indian communities in South America for the teaching of the Castilian language.<br /> This 1815 Royal order is a reinforcement and partly a reprint of a previous ordinance concerning the establishment of schools for teaching the Spanish language in the pueblos de Indios January 28 1778 and a supplement November 5 1782 which — as a response to the appeal of the Corregidor de la Provincia de Paria — permits to finance these schools and provide the salary of the teachers by newly imposed taxes on the local indigenous communities. <p><br /> <br /> Apparently not all the desirable schools were established by 1815 and in a response to another appeal this time by Tadeo JoaquÃn Gárate Cañizares’ 1774–1827 a former Deputy of the Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias in Puno viceroyalty of Peru Charles III’s earlier order and the encouragement of the taxation were repeated and reinforced by Ferdinand VII.<p><br /> <p><br /> <br /> Scarce WorldCat locates only 2 copies worldwide UC Berkeley Libraries; Harvard University. unknown
180512798Madrid 1805. Madrid 1805-1807. En folio. 6 volúmenes. Texto a dos columnas. Encuadernación de la época en piel adornos y letrería dorada en la lomera. Primera edición de esta nueva recopilación de leyes de España mandada formar por Carlos IV donde se reforma la Recopilación publicada por Felipe II en 1567 y se reincorporan las pragmáticas cédulas decretos órdenes y otras providencias no recopiladas y expedidas hasta 1804. Ejemplar completo del sexto y último volumen publicado en 1807 que contiene sus tres índices generales y el suplemento correspondiente a los años de 1805 y 1806 y suele faltar en la mayoría de ejemplares que se ofrecen. Palau describe este volumen como libro independiente. Obra importante que conformó el cuerpo legislativo del siglo diecinueve es la primera recopilación moderna de las leyes de España. Ante la necesidad de un nuevo cuerpo legislativo Carlos IV comisionó a Juan de la Reguera Valdelomar la realización del trabajo el cual fue aprobado por la Junta de Recopilación creada al efecto. Fue un proyecto ambicioso que finalizó con la Real Cédula de 15 de julio de 1805 promulgando la Novísima Recopilación. Sin embargo la técnica jurídica y la orientación política era idéntica a la Nueva Recopilación publicada en el siglo dieciocho lo que convirtió a la Novísima en una obra vieja desde su nacimiento. Se convirtió en el texto fundamental para los estudios de derecho ya que los Borbones habían logrado introducir en las universidades el derecho real frente al derecho común y se mantuvo vigente hasta la aprobación del Código civil de 1889 siendo derogada de forma paulatina a medida que se fueron promulgando las constituciones y los diferentes códigos. Muy buen ejemplar impreso sobre fuerte papel limpio. unknown
1881ABC_45368London sketchbook used in the Mediterranean 1881. Small oblong 8vo 85 x 13 cm. Half checkered black morocco smooth spine divided into 6 fields by 5 gold fillets pebble-textured cloth sides each board with a gold fillet with pencil sleeve and frayed strap to hold the sketchbook easily in hand while drawing. With advertising label of Lechertier Barbe & Co. Artists colourmen and Stationers Regent Street London with prices of the various sketchbooks for sale; at the head the artists initials and date: J.M. 1881. Album sketchbook containing 28 pencil drawings 1 double-page 2 colored drawings and 4 watercolors 1 double-page with handwritten captions in English. 70 pp. Very charming album apparently made during a Mediterranean cruise ca. 1881. The cruise began in Marseille and ended in Biarritz:The Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseille drawing; View of Palma de Mallorca: deleted Minorca Menorca; or: Ibiza; drawing; Two women in Algiers: one standing one sitting drawing; Sketch of a mosque in Algiers drawing; Street in the old city of Algiers colored drawing; Charming view of a café with people sitting outside under banana palm trees colored drawing; Beautiful double-page view of the recently built 1872 Notre Dame dAfrique on a hill above Algiers watercolor; Moslem cemetery in Algiers watercolor; Beautiful watercolor of a street in Oran; Les deux-Frères in the harbor of Nemours now: Ghazaoue drawing; The old harbor of Biarritz drawing; Moorish woman with a description of her costume drawing; pasted to inside back board: Plant Salide drawing.The strap is frayed but the sketchbook is further in very good condition. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
18505353Spain 1850. Very good. 45pp. Small quarto. Contemporary calf gilt. A few minor abrasions along spine edges and corners worn. Occasional minor dust-soiling or foxing to text. An intriguing handwritten manual on cockfighting describing different types of roosters and the rules for fighting them presumably produced in Spain in the first half of the 19th century. The subtitle of the work touts it as in English translation "a very useful work for cockfighting fans." The manuscript includes passages with headings such as "Nobleza antiguedad y utilidad del juego de Gallo" "Nobility antiquity and usefulness of the Rooster game" "De las peleas en general" "Of fights in general" "Condiciones para carear la guerra" "Conditions to face war" "Condiciones en las peleas de navaja" "Conditions in knife fights" "Observaciones acerca del acto de las peleas" "Observations about the act of fighting" "De las circumstancias del Gallero de las cosas anexas a su egercicio y de su gratificacion" "Of the circumstances of the Gallero of the things annexed to his exercise and gratification" "Sobre preparacion de los gallos para las peleas de pico" "On the preparation of roosters for beak fights" "Del modo de disponer los gallos para las peleas de navaja" "How to arrange the roosters for knife fights" as well as passages on the rules for fighting and comparing roosters by weight age and other means and more. A substantial portion of the latter part of the manual is devoted to describing about thirty different "Colores de los gallos" and color patterns which include various shades and patterns of "Indio" "Giro" "Canelo" "Blanco" "Prieto" "Pintojo" and "Tabao." The last section contains a "Regimen para curar las enformedades que mas generalmente padecen los gallos" "Regimen for curing diseases that roosters most generally suffer from".<br /> <br /> Though an undated manuscript the binding appears to emanate from the first half of the 19th century. The ownership inscription and stamp on the first flyleaf indicates the work was owned by Fermin Canella Secades of the University of Oviedo in Spain. Canella Secades lived from 1849 until 1924 so could have owned the work anywhere within those years but the manuscript was most assuredly produced earlier. Though he was a prolific author the handwriting of the ownership inscription presumably belonging to Canella Secades does not match the handwriting in the manuscript and the ownership inscription and stamp were most certainly added later. In any case the present manuscript is a fascinating collection of useful information regarding one of the more esoteric bloodsports in the world which is still legal in parts of Spain and Mexico as well as many other countries and still practiced in numerous places where it's clearly illegal. unknown
181675588Madrid 1816. illus crisp copy. Royal order reestablishing the Jesuits in Spanish domains. unknown
184110216Madrid: Boix 1841. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Folios. 12 335 1 4 334 2; 2 319 1 4 147 3 113 1 105 1 31 1 pp. Fifth edition. In marbled sheep. Tabbed markers applied by an early owner dividing the books and various indices. Light rubbing to the extremities and minor wear to the spine but a handsome and solid set; some early repairs to the marginal tears to a few leaves including the inner margin of the title page; light spotting to the contents but fairly clean and bright throughout. <br /> <br /> Handsome mid-19th century edition of the first comprehensive compilation of the laws of the Spanish Indies. Antonio Rodríguez de León Pinello compiled it by 1635 but it circulated only in manuscript until Fernando Jiménez de Paniagua brought it up to date and saw the result through the press in 1681. Prior to the publication of this massive work it was common practice for lawyers and courts in the various legal districts of the New World i.e. audiencias to compile in manuscript the laws in force in order that they might be used as precedents. Upon publication of this code the number of precedents did not as might have been expected decrease via "regularization" but instead increased: The courts continued to accept the cases and laws on point in the old local manuscript compilations and also those contained in the Recopilación! In sum this is a major work for all collections of international and Hispanic-specific law. <br /> <br /> The first edition is very uncommon in today's marketplace meaning most scholars and collectors must settle for a later edition such as this fifth — which has the advantage of being handsomely printed in double-column format. This copy is attractively bound as well. From the library of Marcelo Martinez-Alcubilla noted lawyer and legal scholar. His bookplate is on the front pastedown and name in ink on the title page of each volume. A 20th century Madrid bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown of the first volume this covers a 19th century bookseller's ticket. Palau VI p 223; Sabin 68390. Boix unknown
1842SZEPEBKS007872IToledo: J. de Cea 1842. Hardcover. Near Fine. 16mo. - 4782 pp. - Contemporary full leather spine with 3 bands and title in gilt on leather label. - Marbled endpapers. - With "Fe de algunas erratas mas principales" on last page. - With engraved bookplate in red and black of Armando Colarelo Valledor. - Very fine. - The Spanish astronomer and mathematician Jose REGUERO ARGUELLES 1803-1853 of Asturias established his fame with the present work and later he also published a three-volume "Astronomia fisca" 1850-51. - Armando Colarelo Valledor 1879-1850 was a prolific Spanish playwright and literary critic. - Very rare: WorldCat gives only two locations Biblioteca Nacional de Espana Madrid and Red de LecturaPublica de Euskadi. Vitoria -gazteiz <br/> <br/> J. de Cea hardcover
188418893AB1884. Lyon 1884 - 1889. 17 : 13 cm. Con algun grabado de madera. Marroqui rojo rubio con el supralibros real Español en oro en la tapa frontal filetes de oro en el lomo y las tapas cortes dorados hoja preliminar en seda roja con dedicatoria en oro : "A sa majesté la Reine Isabelle II. Hommage de son très humble et très respectueux serviteur Le Chavallier A. Du Saussois du Jong" Preciosa encuadrenacíon especial y dedicadoria para la Reine Isabelle II. de España. - Contiene las biografias de celebres personas Franceses: Henir de France - Le Cardinal Guibert - De omte de Falloux - Frère Irlide - L'Amiral Courbet. unknown
182459399Paris Cordier 1824. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Spine a bit rubbed. Stamp on title-page. title-vignette. Lithographed portrait as frontispiece. 82 pp. 2 plates 1 engraved and handcoloured map 40 x 51 cm. "Carte d'Espagne pour servir. par Ch. Picquet". Printed on thick paper. A long dedication-letter in French inserted giving the volume to the Danish King Frederik VI 10 July 1825 probably signed Louis Antoine the editor. With the crowned gilt monogram of King Frederik VI on upper board. hardcover
181737583London: Printed by Thomas Davison Whitefriars for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1817. First thus. xv 261 1; vii i 232 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary brown polished calf spines rubbed brown binder's ticket on front pastedowns "Bound by Smith 49 Long Acre" in each volume; front joint of vol. I starting fixing to preliminaries else very good. First thus. xv 261 1; vii i 232 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED on the first blank leaf of volume I "With the author's best regards March 1834 London" and on the title page of both volumes "To my dear Aunt Mrs. Moore E.V. Holland." Lady Holland's Aunt Mrs. Moore of NYC was Clement C. Moore's mother. <br /> The first volume containing the account of Lope de Vega's life and writings was first published in 1806; this is the first two volume edition and the first containing the treatment of Guillen de Castro. Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown unknown
1837SPAIN014411Whittaker London. 1837. First edition. Octavo. pp xii 203 1 2 adverts. Six engraved plates title-page vignette and endpiece by George Cruikshank. Fine binding by Riviere of full brown morocco with raised bands intricate gilt decoration to spine gilt rules and inner dentelles gilt. Top edge gilt.Some offsetting from the plates onto the facing pages. A bit of foxing to prelims. Covers rubbed at the corners. Near fine. Attractive binding. Whittaker, London. hardcover
18081609070023Madrid: La Imprenta Real 1808-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 146 p. 68 plates. Original sheep red spine label royal seal on title page. Wear and rubbing to boards some worming later paper label to tail of spine. Hinges cracking slightly marginal dampstain affecting a few plates. <br> This book was issued by the Bourbon Royal Press. It depicts infantry practice and maneuvers of a Napoleonic era army. The Treaty of Fontainebleau 1807 between Charles IV of Spain and Napoleon I of France concerned the occupation of Portugal. Charles IV hoped it would lead to an alliance between the French Empire as in pre-revolutionary times. However six months later Napoleon turned on his new ally. The Spanish Army was ill-equipped and lacked tactical training and this book was a last-ditch effort to improve the state of the Spanish army's training. Overall it was not a success as Napoleon ridiculed the Spanish army as "the worst in Europe" and the British forces who had to work with it agreed. Madrid: La Imprenta Real hardcover
1859221597London: Routledge Warnes and Routledge Farrington Street 1859. Reprint of 1855 first edition. Engraved portrait frontispieces facsimile map. 498; 551; x 391 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Bound in full tan polished calf gilt spine t.e.g. by Riviere. Very nice set minor rubbing. Reprint of 1855 first edition. Engraved portrait frontispieces facsimile map. 498; 551; x 391 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Routledge, Warnes and Routledge Farrington Street unknown
189074328Spain: Illegible ca. 1890. Sight size of 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches with the original frame measuring 24 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches. Framed and glazed. Very good.The Gate of Justice is the largest of the entrances into the castle of Alhambra. The Arabic name for the gate was long believed to refer to Islamic justice or law - charia. But in fact this was a misinterpretation for a similar-sounding word and it has been shown that the translation should be Gate of the Esplanade. Its multiple arches are decorated with the Hand of Fatima Mohammed's daughter and the key to the Islamic paradise as well as a Virgin and Child placed there by the Catholic Monarchs to consecrate the gate for Christianity. [Illegible] unknown
189238902Madrid: La Real Academia de la Historia 1892. First edition. Imitation alligator cloth gilt title and rules on spine. A very good copy owner's bookplate and bookseller label on front paste-down. x 680 1 pp. 4to. By E. Saavedra Juan de la Rada y Delgado M. Menendez y Pelayo A.M. Fabié and C. Fernandez Duro. A bibliography of Christopher Columbus released on the 400th anniversary of his voyage to America. Palau 29308. Spain & Spanish America I: 4. La Real Academia de la Historia hardcover
183347616Paris: Paulin Editeur Place de la Bourse 1833. Two vols. 8vo. 311 1; 4 249 1 pp. plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Original printed wrappers uncut some signatures unopened chipping & wear to spines some splitting to original paper spines occasional foxing & toning old repairs to covers & spines still a G- set from the library of Florence E.mma Voigt Mendel 1874-1957 best remembered as an author in the Little Cousin series before and after World War I published by L.C. Page including Our Little Polish Cousin and Our Little Austrian Cousin w/ her bookplate on verso of front wrapper. First edition of this scarce and important history of the Arab conquest of Spain whose author was an early proponent of the wide-ranging impact of Arab learning and inventions on Western Europe. He describes the development and adoption of paper by the Arabs as early as 706 A.D. long before widespread use in Western Europe; the appropriation of the compass by the Arabs from the Chinese which was not commonly used in Western Europe until the 13th century; as well as the tremendous impact of the introduction of gunpowder mentioning the possible early use by the Arabs in 690 during a siege of Mecca but was probably a result of the development of the use of gunpowder bomb catapults used against the the Arabs in the 13th century. The first time gunpowder was used in Western Europe the Moors used primitive guns against the Spaniards under King Alfonso X of Castile when he laid seige to the city of Niebla in 1262. Quite scarce in the original wrappers. Paulin, Editeur, Place de la Bourse, unknown
185643505Madrid: Imprenta de A. Vincente 1856. First edition. Contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards spine with gilt titles and rules marbled endpapers. A very good copy boards rubbed worn at corners contents near fine but for an occasional fold. Approx. 500 pp. Folio. I.a época: Desde 24 de Setiembre de 1854 á 30 de Junio de 1855. IIa época: Desde 5 de setiembre de 1855 a 30 de junio de 1856. Successive imprints were: Imprenta de d. Felipe Saavedra & Imprenta de D. P. Argote. 112 issues most 4 pp. complete with 10 supplements often not all found. A stinging satirical Carlilst newspaper founded by Cándido Nocedal and published six times per month. The supplements running between 2 and 8 pages each contained numerous letters and articles in support of the paper. Palau 208455. Jaime del Burgo: Bibliografía del siglo XIX: 731. Imprenta de A. Vincente hardcover
185434196Madrid: En la Imprenta Nacional 1854. First edition. Full tree calf spine decorated in gilt marbled endpapers. A very good copy spine worn at joints and ends gilt dulled occasional light scattered foxing bookplate of Alberto Parreno on the front pastedown. 584 pp.; 276 pp. 16mo. En la Imprenta Nacional unknown
186034199Madrid: En la Imprenta Nacional 1860. First edition. Dark blue morocco paneled in blind spine and boards decorated in gilt all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Extremities scuffed and chipped boards rubbed else a very good copy bookplate of Alberto Parreno on the front pastedown gilt bright contents near fine. 630 pp.; 308 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w folding map 1 folding chart 2 engravings. 16mo. En la Imprenta Nacional hardcover
186434203Madrid: En la Imprenta Nacional 1864. First edition. Dark red morocco paneled in blind spine and boards decorated in gilt all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Front joint split worn at spine ends and corners penciled owner's name on tissue guard faint dampstain to engraving mainly at margins leaves clean and bright bookplate of Alberto Parreno on the front pastedown overall still about very good. frontis 842 pp. Sm. 8vo. En la Imprenta Nacional hardcover
