A very curious relation about a peculiar happening in Mexico, when little pieces of bread were engraved with the image of Saint Teresa; a series of books were produced regarding the Nuns production of bread. One of those works was the Noticia autentica de las maravillas que N. Señor obra …
The founding of the picaresque novel
The fame and influence of the Lazarillo is well known, it has been translated into most European languages and has gone through hundreds of editions, early editions are all rare, and the one we discuss here is particularly so: La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y sus fortunas y adversidades …
Festivities in manila in 1677 and the Chinese attack against manila of 1564
An early Philippine imprint on festivities by Francisco Moya y Torres, and Ortiz de Covarrubias, entitled Lealtad empeñada finezas de amor y bizarra idea de desempeños [sic] que dio la nobilissima ciudad de Manila… en las festivas acclamaciones, con que aplaudio la feliz nueva de el govierno del Rey nuestro …
The avant garde in Puerto Rico
It was represented by ‘an irreverent journal’ (Encyclopedia Britannica), edited by the feminist writer Rosario Ferré, it was entitled Zona. Carga y Descarga printed between 1972-1975 in Puerto Rico; it consisted of Numbers 1-9 in issues. The influential avant garde magazine Zona was produced by three women: two feminist writers …
Rare Bolivian Traveller Guide and Almanach
A wonderful Calendario y guia de forasteros de la Republica Boliviana para el ano de 1835 printed in La Paz at the Imprenta de Colejio de Artes. Rare, a remarkable example of Bolivian printing from the early independence era; one of the short-lived sequence of Bolivian almanacs published by the …
Extraordinary description of Patagonia and it’s inhabitants by the Patagonian Mission
This is a wonderful read on the experiences and of Reverend Pakenham Despard in Patagonia, written to the effect of attracting attention to the region, the book is entitled The Patagonian Mission vindicated: being the Substance of two letters, addressed by… Missionary to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego to an …
Fundamental philosophical and political work produced and printed in South America
A very interesting work on socialism in South America, written by Estevan Echeverria and entitled Dogma socialista de la Asociación Mayo, precedido de una ojeada retrospectiva sobre el movimiento intelectual en el Plata desde el año 37. It was printed in the year 1846 in Montevideo. First edition, one …
The Statues of the Order of Rhodes, first illustrated edition
A beautiful incunable by Guillaume Caoursin: Stabilimenta Rhodiorum militum, printed on 23 August 1496 in Ulm by Johann Reger. This is the first illustrated edition, third in total; Caoursin edited the revised statutes of the Knights Hospitallers by order of their Grand Master Pierre d’Aubusson (1423-1503). The edition includes d’Aubusson’s …
The continuation of the Amadis, in the life of Florisel de Niquea, two rare Spanish Chivalry Romances
Two works that follow the Amadis de Gaula: La tercera parte de la Coronica del muy excelente Principe do[n] Florisel de Niquea en la qual trata de las grandes hazanas de los excelentiffimos Principes do[n] Rogel de Grecia, y el Segundo Agefilao, hijos de los excelentiffimos principes do[n] Florisel de …
One of the last great representatives of the Jesuit Order in China
Exceptional manuscript by Jesuit Joseph-Marie Amiot, Abregé chronologique de l’histoire universelle de l’Empire Chinois, written between 1770-1789, on the history of China, by the hand of Jesuit active during the second half of the 18th century, and one of the period´s greatest sinologists; appealingly illustrated and in its entirely genuine …