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THE FIRST ETHNOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF THE INDIAN WORLD
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ACOSTA, Joseph. The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies. Written in Spanish… and translated into English by E.G. London, Val Sims for Edward Blount and William Aspley, 1604.
First English edition of this eyewitness anthropological account of the Americas, chiefly Inca Peru and Aztec Mesoamerica, by the Jeusit father José de Acosta, “a more thoughtful and a more thorough account of the Indian world than anything then available” (Pagden).
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FUNERAL EXEQUIES, INCLUDING POEMS IN PERUVIAN TONGUES
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[LIMA IMPRINT] CUENCA, P. Victoriano. Parentacion solemne que al nombre augusto, y real memoria de la Catholica Reyna de las Españas, y Emperatriz de la Indias…Doña Maria Amalia de Saxonia... Lima, Pedro Nolasco, 1761.
An unusually fresh example of the rare first edition of this collection of funeral exequies composed in honor of Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724-1760), the wife of Charles III, who died of tuberculosis within a year of her arrival in Madrid.
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EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF HAVANA
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[CUBA / SIEGE OF HAVANA] HEVIA Y BUSTAMANTE, Gutierre Guido, Marqués del Real Transporte. Excmo. Señor mio. Madrid , 1762?.
Extremely rare first edition—only one other copy located—of a printed eyewitness account of the Battle of Havana by the Spanish naval commander, Gutierre Guido Hevia y Bustamante, who was subsequently court-martialed for losing the city to Britain.
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FUNERAL ORATIONS IN LIMA FOR A SPANISH QUEEN
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[LIMA IMPRINT] LUXAN, Mariano. Relacion Funebre de las Reales Exequias …de la Serenissima Magestad…La Señora Doña Maria Barbara de Portugal, Catholica Reyna de las Indias, mandò celebrar en esta capital de Los Reyes el dia 4 de Septiembre de 1759. Lima, Imprenta Real for Pedro Nolasco Alvorado, 1760.
Rare first edition of the funeral-book of Maria Barbara of Portugal, Queen-consort of Spain and wife of Ferdinand VI, with a large folding plate of her catafalque.
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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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