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 …
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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 …
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 …
Extremely rare novel by Defoe, a peculiar narrative of white slavery in the United States, the true first edition, only a handful of other copies known
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 …
One of the rarest works of Castilian poetry, including sonnets by a woman, and one of the very few to contain illustrations.
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 …