Ana Karenina, la famosa obra del escritor ruso León Tolstoi, fue escrita y publicada en el año 1977. Producto de la genialidad de este escritor, esta emblemática novela es aun hoy considerada una pieza única de la literatura universal. Clásico de los clásicos, esta obra relata sobre la sociedad rusa …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
One of the most important Dutch collection of voyages to Africa, Asia and America, compiled by Isaac Commelin, the general title is Begin ende Voortgangh, van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie printed in 1646 in Amsterdam, it boasts a total of 230 engraved plates and maps (some folding). It …
A very curious work by Daniel Defoe ´The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call’d Col. Jack, who was born a, Gentleman, put ‘Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp’d to Virginia. Came back a Merchant, married four …
The Diario de todo lo ocurrido en la expugnacion de Bocachica y sitio de la ciudad de Cartagena de las Indias formado de los pliegos remitidos a S.M. .. por el Virrey de Santa Fe Don Sebastian Eslaba, printed in Cadiz in 1741 is an interesting historical account of the …
Remarkable journal kept by a British sailor on route through the Pacific Ocean, entitled Diario de Don Phelype Thopson Piloto Mayor de esta Fragata Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion (alias) el Buenfin, que con el divino favor, y el de su Santissima Madre de la Consolacion, a quien llevo por …
The ´Floresta de varia poesia. Contiene esta Floresta que componia el Doctor Diego Rodriguez Pagan, muchas y diversas obras, morales, spirituales, y temporales y esta primera es una elegia en la muerte del Emperador nuestro rey y señor´ was written by Diego Ramirez Pagan, and the copy web ring to …
