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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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THE MANDEVILLE OF HIS DAY
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[JAPAN] MENDES PINTO, Ferdinand / tr. FIGUIER, Bernard. Les Voyages Avantageux ... . Paris, Mathurin Henault, 1628.
Rare first French edition of the earliest written eyewitness account of Japan, by the adventurer, pirate, missionary and mercenary who was among the first Europeans to visit that country.
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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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