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Mexico: Editorial Pedro Robredo, 1939 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. Volumes I, II and III. Pages uncut, hence it's never been read. This Edition LIMITED to 100 copies. 409pp, [7]; 428pp. [4]; 416pp, [4], all uniformly bound in original stiff paper, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Slight age darkening to covers, vol. I has small edge tear where backstrip meets the cover. THE HISTORY OF NEW SPAIN. Text is in Spanish.

Montevideo: Imprenta Elzeviriana, 1889. First edition. Cloth. Very good+, boards slightly rubbed, scattered foxing to preliminaries and endpapers. A handsome copy.. xviii, 314 pp. 12mo. An important work on Rioplatense Spanish, a dialect spoken in the River Plate region between Argentina and Uruguay. Provenance: Bookplate of Hereberto Gibson on half-title, ie. Sir Herbert Gibson (1863-1934), a leading member of the British Community in Argentina. Tiny blind-stamp of Antonio Santamarina on title page and small label A. Santamarina (from the Biblioteca de d. Antonio Santamarina) on front pastedown. The last at auction in 1978. Palau 107301. Spain & Spanish America I, 306 (2nd ed).

Anveres: Jacobo Mevrcio, 1665. Limp Vellum. See Description. Small 8vo. 2 volumes in 1. Volume I. pp. 400, [6]. Vol. II. pp. 383, [7]. With separate title page to each volume. Bound in period vellum. Occasional faint miniscule underlining in an old hand and a couple short marginal notations; some marginal smudging / soiling; front and rear blank leaves are ragged and torn. Volume I: tiny hole in p. 271 (mostly between lines but partly obstructing a couple of letters); bottom corner tip clipped on p.399 - not effecting text; pages 400-401 are dusty / soiled. Volume II: upper corner crease on p. 81. The bottom corner tips of the last few gatherings are chipped/worn. Antonio de Guevara [1480?-1545] - Spanish writer who grew up in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. He later joined the Franciscan order and was appointed court preacher and imperial historiographer by Charles V of Spain. In 1527 he became bishop of Guadix and in 1537 bishop of Mondonedo. Guevera's works were quite popular in their… Read More

Spain: Generalitat Valenciana. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 8448251458 . Clean binding and dust jacket still in shrink wrap, never opened. Text tight, clean & intact. 215 illustrations. Text in Spanish, Catalan and English. Art ; Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 472 pages .

Madrid: Real Academia de Espanola. Flexible white cloth boards resembling vellum show light soiling to spines, else clean and sound, Book plate on front paste-down of each volume; possible ex-library, but no clear markings. Interiors are clean and unmarked, many pages uncut. Volume VI is a slightly different color than the other volumes. Volume VII is dated 1923, rather than 1917. Vol. I - La Galatea; II & III - Don Quixote de la Mancha; IV - Novelas Exemplares; V - Comedias Entremeses; VI - Persiles Y Sigismunda; VII - El Trato de Argel, La Numancia, y Poesias Varias. In all, a handsome set, and a facsimile of the originals. Due to weight, extra postage may be required. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition Thus. 1st Printing. 1917.

Madrid: Jose Del Ojo Gomez, 1885. Hardcover. Fine. 32mo. New Edition. Text in Spanish. Quarter bound marbled green leather over green buckram boards. Title in gilt on red spine label. Top edge in red, with red marbled endpapers. Ejemplar num. 198 p.p. Bookplate of Lt. Colonel V.S.M. de Guinzbourg on front pastedown endpaper. Owner inscription on half-title. Some trimming to bottom pages. The bottom right tip of p. 69 clipped, but text unaffected. Head and tail of spine lightly worn, with light wear to bands and joints. Small chip to head of rear joint to spine. Light rubbing to edges and corners of boards, otherwise a fine copy. Palau, m-98335. Maxims, Reflections, and Moralities excerpted from the writings of Cervantes on a variety of subjects.

Madrid: Franc. Martinez, 1633 Book. Fair. Soft cover. [viii], 363, [1], 24, [24] pages + engraved title page and three plates. Here without the half title page. Damage to the engraved title page - trimmed along the foot cropping the imprint and also with the loss of the lower inner corner, section torn from the head of the page also. In old creased limp vellum, section torn from the spine. Remains of old ties. Some staining to pages at the rear. Ink notes to the front inner cover..

Santiago de Chile: Nascimento, 1956. #169 of an edition of 1,000 copies printed on Alfa Loeber paper. Neruda's brilliant tribute to typography and typographers. Near Fine, small bit of wear at base of spine, in a Very Good original glassine jacket, 1'"x 2" hole front cover, light wear at bottom edge, glassine browned. There were an additional 154 copies printed, 4 on Whatman paper and 150 on Fabriano paper. Uncommon. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

Barcelona: Instituto Catalan de Las Artes del Libro, 1951. # 626 of 700 copies printed on papel de hilo Guarro. Near Fine, slight separation of hinge between pp. 2-3,, most pages uncut, in Fine decoratively printed dust jacket and Near Fine original glassine jacket. With 50 plates with tissue guards, 25 of them in color. Prologue by R. Miguel y Planas. 349 pages, with border decorations on each page by J. Figuerola, and illustrations by Triadó, Urgellés, Cardunets Colom, Pey, D ivori, Apa, Junceda, Longoria, Ollé, Ros, Buyreu, Mora, Gelabert, Bocquet and Becquer. The book contains short stories by nine French authors (Charles Nodier, The Bibliophile and Franciscus Columna; Gustave Flaubert, The Murderous Bookstore; Alfred Bonnardot, Bibliophile's Mirror; Charles Asselineau, The Bibliophile's Hell; Alphonse Daudet, The Last Book; Octave Uzanne, The Bibliophile's Inheritance; Jérôme Doucet, The Biblical Fairy; Pierre Louÿs, The Stamp of Santa Teresa;… Read More

Santiago De Chile: Editorial Universitaria, S. A. , 1958. # 553 of 1,000 copies printed. Illustrations by Nemesio Antunez. 35 pp. The text block string-tied and laid loose in illustrated pink wrappers. Near Fine, small stain top edge rear wrapper, prior owner gift inscription and small sticker front end page. While 1,000 copies printed according to colophon, uncommon in current commerce. .. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Decorated Wrappers. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

Santiago: America, 1950. Clandestine edition published by the Chilean Communist Party, First Thus in printed wrappers, the Party also published an earlier hardcover edition. Both of these Chilean editions came out shortly after the true First Edition published in Mexico, and both are uncommon. Very Good, spine a bit darkened and with vertical crease, light wear at edges, paper uniformly browning. 447 pages, with two photographs of Neruda tipped in and illustrations by Jose Venturelli (Santiago, 1924 - Beijing, 1998). . First Edition Thus. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Santiago De Chile: Ediciones Isla Negra , 1962. #119 of 500 copies printed. Near Fine, slight toning to wrappers, in publisher's original plain cardboard slipcase, Very Good Plus with light edge wear. Prologue of Victoria Pueyrredon, with poems by Manuel A. Pueyrredón and songs that deal with the life and death of Don Jose Miguel Carrera. From the collection of noted Chilean composer Juan Orrego Salas, wis wife's name in ink and small bookstore stamp front end page. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Decorated Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

Cuba musical album resumen ilustrado de la historia y de la actual situacion del arte musical en cuba segunda edicion corregida y aumentada habana cuba 1929 signed por jose calero y leopoldo valdes quesada.libro de gran tamano y peso,super ilustrado.con dedicatoria de los dos editores.con la historia de la musica en cuba hasta 1929,biografias de musicos,compositores,e interpretes,historias de las academias,colegios y escuelas de musica en la habana y provincias con fotos,e historias de su fundacion.el libro es una rareza bibliografica [out of print].de coleccion.el libro mantiene su encuadernacion original de la epoca en piel,algo gastadas por su uso.

Obras de jose jacinto milanes coleccion de sus poesias dramas leyendas cuadros de costumbres y articulos literarios 2 vols primera edicion habana cuba 1846. rarisima edicion libro de coleccion.2 vols encuadernados en un tomo encuadernacion original de la epoca.milanes fue uno de los mas importantes escritores cubanos del siglo XIX.
José Jacinto Milanés (16 de agosto de 1814 Matanzas, Cuba - >ibídem, 14 de noviembre de 1863).Los primeros poemas de Milanés fueron publicados en La Habana por >Ramón de Palma y >José Antonio Echevarría en la revista literaria >Aguinaldo Habanero. Las obras de Milanés tuvieron una acogida favorable en entre la crítica y el público cubano de su tiempo.. Poeta, dramaturgo y ensayista. Uno de los principales cultivadores del drama romántico en lengua española. Considerado como el primer ingenio poético cubano. Casi toda su creación se desarrolló desde 1835 y hasta 1843, período enmarcado en el romanticismo de la literatura española.

Cuentos negros de cuba primera edicion imprenta la veronica habana cuba 1940 con dedicatoria de la autora.primera edicion en espanol,Estos cuentos afrocubanos, aún cuando todos ellos están cundidos de >fantasía y ofrezcan entre sus protagonistas algunos personaje del >panteón yoruba, como >Obaogó, >Oshún, Ochosi, etcétera, no son principalmente religiosos, Los más de los cuentos entran en la categoría de >fábulas de animales, como las que antaño dieron su fama a Esopo, y contemporáneamente a las afroamericanas narraciones del >Uncle Rernus, que son tan populares entre los niños de los estados del sur en la federación norteamericana. El tigre, el elefante, el toro, la lombriz, la liebre, las gallinas y, sobre todo, la jicotea, a veces la pareja jicotea-venado, o tortuga-ciervo, cuyas contrastantes personalidades constituyen un ciclo de piezas folklóricas muy típicas de los yorubas, donde la jicotea es el prototipo de la astucia y la >sabiduría venciendo siempre a la fuerza y a la… Read More