Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/53
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    29 BARRIENTOS (Juan de). Nueva Relacion, en que se da cuenta de una dilatada Provincia, que se ha descubierto, que confina con el Govierno del Paraquay, en el Reyno del Pert. Refierense las grandes riquezas que ay en ella, la abundancia de frutos, y el modo de govierno, y mages- tuosa grandeza de su Rey, llamado el Gran Paytite, con otras noticias muy particulares, y curiosas. 8 pp., small 4to, new boards. Madrid, circa 1690. £10 Ios Not in Sabin or Medina, or Palau’s Manual. Announcing the discovery of a new, great and peaceful country, containing many large cities, and more than two thousand populous places, bordered on one side by Paraguay, and on the other by China and Tartary. The author states that he lived in this land for six years, and relates the great dangers he went through, and gives an account of the country, of its fruitfulness, its people, etc., etc. Evidently the relation of a new and wonderful land existing in the author’s imagination, between South America and China. 30 BASALENQUE (Fr. Diego). Arte de la Lengua Tarasca, dispuesto con nuevo estilo, y clari- dad. Sacalo a luz el R. P. M. Fr. Nicolas de Quixas, Provin- cial de dicha Provincia. First Epirion. Small 8vo. Bound by David in full blue levant morocco, gilt lines on sides, full gilt back, inside dentelles, doublures of scarlet morocco, corded silk fly leaves, g.e. Mexico, Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1714. £18 18s Palau’s Manual, Vol. I, p. 184. Probably the only complete copy known, viz., the Fischer-Ramirez-Heredia copy.
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