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185522646Buenos Aires: R. Kratzenstein 1855. Lithographs measuring on average 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches on slips of blue or white paper likely clipped from the top of pictorial letter sheets. Light edge wear. Very good. Matted. An attractive group of lithographic vignettes of scenes in and around Buenos Aires.<br/> <br/>These images were published by Rodolfo Kratzenstein who was one of the leading lithographers in Buenos Aires from the mid-1850s and are probably from pictorial letter sheets issued by his firm in that period. One illustration shows a long stretch of the cityscape of Buenos Aires from the harbour and several ships are shown in the choppy waters of the port. Other images show the "Casa de Justicia" the courts and the "Palermo"neighborhood. Two other images one of them here in two examples show scenes in the countryside outside Buenos Aires both of them depicting men on horseback dealing with wagons in difficult terrain. Pictorial letter sheets from Argentina are uncommon and these are attractive images. R. Kratzenstein unknown books
1823WRCAM46583Buenos Aires 1823. 4pp. Folio. Minor wear to top edge. Very good plus. In this message to Congress Rivadavia Interior Secretary and Garcia Treasury Secretary announce the recognition of Argentine independence by the United States and discuss relations with other South American countries. They also report to Congress on the condition of internal security and defense the treasury taxes debt medical sciences etc. Rivadavia later served as the first president of the Provinces of Rio de la Plata from 1826-27. Rare with one copy in OCLC at the British Library. unknown books
1808WRCAM41553London 1808. viii2161pp. plus four folding maps. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Minor offsetting and foxing on titlepage and other leaves facing maps. Old library stamps on first two leaves; contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Errata slip pasted to verso of titlepage. Very good. Untrimmed. In 1807 Gen. John Whitelocke was sent to the Rio de la Plata with a large force. His goal was to reinforce British troops already operating there and in Argentina and to seize Buenos Aires a move designed to open up the markets of South America to British commerce and replace those lost on the Continent by Napoleon's blockade. Despite his large force Whitelocke proceeded cautiously and ineptly further hampered by bad weather. The assault on Buenos Aires was met by civilian as well as military resistance when the British had expected local merchants to welcome them with open arms. Craufurd commanded a light brigade which led the attack on Buenos Aires and successfully achieved its objectives. However a large part of the attacking force was cut off and forced to surrender while Whitelocke napped in his tent and Craufurd's brigade was ordered to surrender with the rest of the British force. Santiago Liniers the Spanish commander proposed a truce if the British would promise to withdraw in two months but said he could not answer for the safety of the prisoners if the attack was renewed. Feeling that the object of the expedition was now untenable Whitelocke accepted those terms. The British withdrew to Montevideo and then to England losing what might have been a foothold in South America. Whitelocke was the subject of the greatest scorn on returning to England where he was court-martialed and cashiered. Though this work is sometimes attributed to Gen. Whitelocke the accusatory and wounded tone of the narrative makes that unlikely. SABIN 103672. PALAU 375051. HALKETT & LAING 1 p.164. DNB online. hardcover books
1808WRCAM35054Dublin: Printed by R. Smith and published by W. Figgis 1808. 109pp. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and cloth spine gilt. Shelf mark plate of Markree Library on front pastedown signature of E.S. Cooper on titlepage. A very good copy. An anonymous account by a field officer relating the unsuccessful British attempt under Lieut. Gen. Whitelocke to recapture Buenos Aires in 1807. The articles of the treaty ceasing hostilities between the Spanish and the British signed on July 7 1807 are included. Following this narrative the author provides a "brief description of the country and a short account of such circumstances as came under our observation in those parts we passed through." OCLC records only three copies. NAYLOR 26. ALBERICH 1210. Printed by R. Smith and published by W. Figgis hardcover books
1822WRCAM36917Buenos Aires: Imprenta de los Expósitos 1822. 5397pp. Nos. 1-23 plus supplement to No. 22 paged continuously. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards spine gilt. Outer joints and corners worn. A few pencil annotations. Occasional minor foxing. A very good copy. An extremely rare copy of the complete first volume of the most important Argentinean periodical of the early independence period. Edited by Florencio Varela Juan Cruz Varela and Ignacio Núñez the issues include news miscellaneous notices and short literary pieces in verse and in prose. CENTINELA was published weekly and then biweekly in 1822 and 1823. The two years of the periodical consist of seventy-two numbers and three supplements. This first volume is complete with twenty-three numbers and one supplement. Extremely rare. OCLC records four copies at New York Public the John Carter Brown Library the British Library and the Ibero- Amerikanisches Institute in Germany. PALAU 51467. OCLC 50151967. Imprenta de los Expósitos hardcover books
1826WRCAM37321Buenos Aires: Imprenta Argentina 1826. 12pp. Small quarto. 20th-century three-quarter morocco over marbled boards spine gilt. Edges and spine lightly worn upper outer joint moderately worn. Contemporary number inscription in top margin of first page of text. Lower right corners of first two leaves chipped. Moderate age-toning and foxing. A good copy. An extremely rare tract concerning the development of the Argentine constitution in the early republican period of that nation. In April 1819 a constitution was approved establishing a congress with two legislative branches and an elected chief executive. Due to the local political situation however that constitution was not fully enacted. A new constitution promoting a centralized system of government was eventually drafted in 1826. This manifesto of the government's constitutional commission presented to the Argentine representatives reviews various aspects of the 1819 Constitution and proposes changes to be effected in the new document. <br> <br> An extremely rare publication concerned with the early constitutional period in Argentina. OCLC locates only a single copy in the national Library of Chile. PALAU 148972. OCLC 55255075. Imprenta Argentina hardcover books
1807WRCAM35048Bath: William Meyler 1807. 238pp. plus one engraved plan. Modern half roan and boards spine gilt. Occasional minor foxing; minor titlepage repair with no loss of text. A very good copy with engraved bookplate of P. Francis K.C.B on front pastedown. An anonymous straight-forward account of the British attack on Buenos Aires in 1807 written "without any flourishing or prolix declamation on the calamities of war the effects of courage or the pursuit of wealth and fame." The unidentified author includes extensive details on the final engagements leading to the defeat of the British troops under Lieut. Gen. John Whitelocke by the Spanish citizen army of Creoles and peasants under the command of Santiago de Liniers. The plan and accompanying printed explanation of the plate assist in visualizing the narrative of the battle described in the text. Forced to withdraw from Buenos Aires after this defeat Whitelocke was court- martialed and cashiered. An intriguing record of the British engagement in Buenos Aires with an unusual Bath imprint for such a work. OCLC records only five copies. SABIN 51805. ALBERICH 1247. William Meyler hardcover books
