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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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JARRIC, Pierre du. Histoire des Choses plus memorables advenues tantes Indes Orientales, que autres Pais. Bordeaux, S. Millanges, [1608-10-14].
Scarce first edition, complete with the rare third volume of one of the major syntheses of the Jesuit mission overseas, relying heavily on Guerreiro, both his published chronicles as well as unpublished materials provided by Guerreiro to the author.
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[CHINA] PANTOJA, Diego de /ALBERTINUS, Aegidius (tr.). Histori und eigentliche beschreibung erstlich was gestalt vermittelst sonderbarer Huelff und Schickung deß Allmaechtigen dann auch der Ehrwuerdigen Vaeter der Societet IESU.. Munich, Adam Berg, 1608.
Rare first German edition of this influential Jesuit letterbook from China describing Matteo Ricci’s acceptance at the court of Peking and marking a shift in European perceptions of China from “a view of China as seen from Macao to a view of China from within.” (de Paula Nogueira, p. 426)
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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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