Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/149
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    explorations in the silver mining districts of the Provinces of San Juan and Mendoza, and a Journey across the Pampas to Buenos Ayres. With 2 folding maps. First Eprtion. Small 8vo. Original cloth. London, 1863. &1 5s [638] RICKARDS (C. G.). The Ruins of Mexico. With 250 illustrations. Vol. 1 (all published). 4to. Cloth. London, 1910. £1 5s [639] RICO (Father Juan Joseph, Procurator General of the Jesuit Order in Para- guay). Reparos, que se han hecho contra la buena conducta, y govierno civil de los treinta pueblos de Indios Guaranis, que estan a cargo de la Compania de Jesus del Paraguay, y los deshace, con la verdad, que sencillamente expone de dicho Govierno. 36 pp. Small 4to. (Madrid, 1740). £5 5s This tract is unknown to Pinelo and Backer. In defence of the Jesuit dominion in Paraguay and in apology for their treatment of the Guarani Indians. [640] [RIDPATH (George) ]. A Defence of the Scots Settlement at Darien. With an answer to the Spanish Memorial against it. And Arguments to prove that it is the interest of England to join with the Scots, and protect it. To which is added, A Description of the Country, and a particular Account of the Scots Colony. Small 8vo. Half calf, g.e. pp. viii, 86. Edinburgh, 1699. &4 15s The dedication is signed Philo-Caledon, who is said to be George Ridpath. “The Heads propos’d to be insisted upon in the following Sheet, are, The Legality of the Scots Establishment: The Advantage or Disadvantage that may redound from it to England: Whether the Scots without the assistance of the English may be able to maintain their footing in America; and what may probably be the consequences if the Scots should be oppos’d therein by the English, and miscarry in the Undertaking.” [641 ] Another Edition. 12mo. Half morocco, g.e. pp. 1V, 57. Edinburgh, 1699. £4 15s [642] An Enquiry into the Causes of the Miscarriage of the Scots Colony at Darien. Or an Answer to a Libel entituled a Defence of the Scots Abdicating Darien. Submitted to the Consideration of the Good People of England. Small 8vo. Half calf, g.e. Glasgow, 1700. £4 4s Generally ascribed to George Ridpath, and written in defence of the Colony. [643] RIO (Antonio del). Description of the Ruins of an Ancient City, discovered near Palenque, in the Kingdom of Guatemala. With 17 plates. ato. Cloth. London, 1822. . 15s CATECHISM IN THE Mexican LANGUAGE. [644] RIPALDA (Padre Geronymo de). Catecismo Mexicano, que contiene toda la Doctrina Christiana. 12mo. Half morocco. Mexico, 1758. £6 10s A rare Catechism in the Mexican language, translated from the Latin by Father Ignacio de Paredes. With two title-pages, the first in Spanish, second in Mexican. This being a School-book for Indians a few pages have naturally been worn with use. [91 ]
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