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The Conquest of Peru For the First Time In French (1545)
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[PERU] L’histoire de la terre neuve du Perù en l’Inde Occidentale, que est la principale mine d’or du monde. Paris, Pierre Gaultier for Jean Barbé and Vincent Sertenas, 1545.
Very rare first French edition of the first printed account of the conquest of Peru (editio princeps 1534), including a dramatic rendering of the capture of the Inca king Atahualpa and hyperbolic estimates of the mineral wealth of a country which was quickly becoming the focus of the European gold rush in the New World.
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[PERU] SANGRO, Raimondi di. Lettera apologetica dell’Esercitato accademico della Crusca contenente la difesa del libro intitolato Lettere d’una peruana Per rispetto alla supposizione de’Quipu scritta alla dichessa di S... Naples, Gennaro Morelli, 1750.
First edition of Neapolitan polymath prince Raimondi di Sangro’s controversial text on the Peruvian knot-based counting language Quipu, produced using his own polychromatic printing process
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“A marvelous blend of reportage, scientific findings,
and the author’s personal observations…”
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[AMERICANA] SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe. Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes, to the sources of the Missouri River. Albany, E. & E. Hosford, 1821.
First edition. This book is based on Schoolcraft’s journal of a summer’s journey in upper Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota in two Indian canoes.
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De Soto in French
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[DE SOTO] M. D. C. [CITRI de la GUETTE, S. de Bro Seigneur]. Histoire de la Conqueste de la Floride, Par les Espagnols, sous Ferdinand de Soto. Ecrite en Portugais par un Gentil-homme de la ville d'Elvas. Paris, Thierry, 1685.
Scarce first edition and fine copy of the first French edition of the Rela Verdadeira (1557), the anonymous eyewitness account of the De Soto expedition to Florida and the Southern United States
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Privately Published In Mexico
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[JESUITS / MEXICO / BALTHASAR, Juan Antonio]v. Catalogus personarum, & domiciliorum, in quibus sub A.R.P. Societatis Jesu præposito generali XVI. P. Petro Zespedes Hispaniarum assistente. P. Joanne Antonio Balthazar provinciæ Mexicanæ præposito provinciali LXVI.. Mexico City, Ex Regalis, & antiquioris divi Ildephonsi Collegii typographia, 1751.
Rare first and sole edition of this internally published register of Jesuit establishments in Mexico, compiled by the new Father Provincial of New Spain, providing a Who’s Who of the Society’s presence in the New World.
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