Catalogue 38
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[PHILIPPINES] DRAPER, Sir WILLIAM. Col.. Draper's answer to the Spanish Arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing payment of the ransom bills, for preserving Manila from pillage and destruction; in a letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax. London, J. Dodsley, 1764.
Scare first edition of this document relating to the British occupation of Manila during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1762-3, and an interesting case of international law.
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The First Separate Appearance Of Drake's Circumvigation And Las Casas En Frans
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LAS CASAS, Bartolome. Histoire des Indes Occidentales ov l'on reconnoit la bonte ces pa & de leurs peoples; & les cruautez Tyrannique des Espagnols. Lyon, Jean Caffin & F. Plaignard, 1642.
Scarce French-language editions of two important travel narratives, Las Casas's excoriating account of the Spanish in the New World and an early edition of the first separate appearance of Drake's epoch-making voyage.
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The History Of Chile, Illustrated
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OVALLE, Alonso. Historica Relatione del Regno di Cile, e delle missioni, e ministerii che esercita in quelle la Compagnia di Giesu... Rome, Francesco Cavalli, 1646.
First Italian edition appearing the same year as the Spanish of the best early history of Chile, and one of the great illustrated books on South America published in the seventeenth century.
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The Most Influential Travel Book Of All Time
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POLO, Marco. Delle merauiglie del mondo. per lui vedute. Del costume di varij paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. Della descrittione de diuersi animali. Del trouar dell'oro, & dell'argento. Venice, Ghirardo & Iseppo Imberti, 1626.
Rare Italian-language edition of Marco Polo's 'Il Milione' -"the most widely rea" version of this classic travelogue.
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A Non-Jesuit Relation
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[FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc]. Relation des Missions des Evesques Fran's aux Royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonkin, &c. Divise' en quarter parties.. Paris, Pierre le Petit, 1674.
Rare first edition of this account of the state of Christianity in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam by rivals of the Jesuits.
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