Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1938
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/24
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    South America—continued. 581 CHILE.—Scott-E.L.iot (G. F.) CHILE: its History and Development, Natural Features Products, Commerce and Present Conditions ; with an Introduction by MARTIN HUME, SECOND EDITION, folding map, 33 illustrations and 5 diagrams, 8vo., cloth (sides a little discoloured), 1909 7/= 582 COMMENTARIUS DE REPUBLICA [PARAGUAI ac Sera in AMERICA LUSITANA ac JESUITIS instituta, belloque ab his cum HISPANIA, Lusitanizeque exercitibus gesto, Ex iis que asservantur in secretoribus conclavibus legatorum, qui cum plena Regum potestate negotia huc pertinenta in America administrabant, aliisque instrumentis certe auctori- tatis concinnatus E Lusitano in Latinum conversus. Title + 77 pp., without place, printer, or date [ca. 1758|—-BENEDICTI PP. XIV. LITTERM in FORMA BREVIS quibus . . » CarD. DE SALDANHA, motu Proprio Constituitur in VISITATOREM, et REFORMATOREM CLERICORUM REGULARIUM SOCIETATIS JESU, in Regnis PORTUGALLIA et ALGARBIORUM et in INDIIS ORIENTALIBUS et OCCIDENTALIBUS Regi Fidelissimo subjectis. ‘Title +14 pp., Ulyssipone [Lisbon], Ex Officina Michaelis Rodrigues, 1758—2 vols in one, sm. 8vo., wrappers, 1758 £2/10/- A transaction between Spain and Portugal in 1758 caused the transfer of territory of Ura- guay upon which the Jesuits’ Reductions (or Colony) stood, to the latter power. The great Portuguese minister, Carvalho, better known by his latter title as the Marquis of Pombal, in the name of the King of Portugal formally denounced the Order at Rome and Benedict XIV., the then Pope, appointed the Cardinal de Saldanha, a friend of the minister, Visitor and Reformer of the Society. ' The Cardinal having investigated, forbad the Jesuits to engage in trade in the Soul American Reductions, or elsewhere. : 583 [DAVIE (Joan CoNSTANCE)] LETTERS from BUENOS AYRES and CHILI, with an ole History of the latter Country ; by the Author of “‘ Lerrers from ParaGuay,” with 6- coloured aquatints (mainly of female costumes), 8vo., contemp. calf (binding worn and joints cracked), Ackermann, 1819 £1/10/-. } Top outer blank corner of title-page torn away. I 584 FREZIER (AMEDEE FR.) A VoYAGE to the SOUTH-SEA and along the Coasts of CHILI and > PERU, in the years 1712-14, particularly describing the Genius and Constitution of the Inhabitants, as well as Indians and Spaniards : their Customs and Manners, their Natural History, Mines, Commodities, Traffick with Europe, &c., sllustrated with 37 copper-cuts of the coasts, harbours, cities, plants, &c., with a Postscript by DR. EDMUND HALLEY, and an ACCOUNT of the SETTLEMENT, COMMERCE, and RICHES of the JESUITES in PARAGUAY, 4to., contemp. calf, Printed for fonah Bowyer, 1717 £4/10/- ANOTHER Copy (wanting 14 plates), contemp. calf (one joint partly cracked), ibid. 1717 £222 The missing plates are Nos. IV., VITI.-XI., XIV.-XVII., XXII., XXIV., XXIX., XXX. and XXXV. 586 GUIANA.—[BANCROFT (EDWARD)] An Essay on the NATURAL HIsToRY of GUIANA, in SOUTH AMERICA, containing a Description of many Curious Productions in the Animal and Vegetable Systems of that Country ; together with an Account of the Religion, Man-— ners, and Customs of Several Tribes of its Indian Inhabitants, [etc.], engraved frontispiece by M. PARK and 10 plates containing 162 coloured botanical figures, engraved by ELLIS, 8vo., old calf, joints weak ; lower margins waterstained), Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1769 £1/1/- : BENTLEY (CHARLES) TWELVE VIEWS in the INTERIOR of GUIANA ; from drawings executed after sketches taken during the Expedition, carried on in the years 1835-39 under the direction of the Royal Geographical Society of London, with Descriptive Text by ROBERT H. SCHOMBURGK, accompanied by illustrations on wood [drawn by CHARLES BLUNT, engraved by G. P. NICHOLLS], map of Guayana, coloured vignette title and 12 magnificent views, coloured in imitation of the original drawings, folio, old half roan (shabby), 585 587 Ackermann and Co., 1841 £6/15/= Two plates strengthened at fore-margins, but a good copy; internally clean. Sabin, No. 4770. : HARCOURT (ROBERT) RELATION of a VOYAGE to GUIANA, 1613, with PURCHAS’S Transcript of a REPORT made at Harcourt’s instance on the MARRAWINI DISTRICT, edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by SIR C. ALEXANDER HARRIS, K.C.M.G., portrait and 3 folding maps, 8vo., cloth, Hakluyt Society [Second Series, Vol. 60], 1928 15/- 588
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