Catalogue of the celebrated collection of Latin Americana, the property of señor Alberto Dodero of Buenos Aires, the first portion: comprising voyages and general works. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 18-19 November 1963 ]

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th and 19th November 1963. Green printed wrappers, small 4to,,. 95 pp, 11 plates, facs. 533 lots. Among the highlights noted were: Voyages and General Works including Abelin's rare Newe welt, 1631; the nine Spanish tracts of Bartholomé de las Casas; Consolat de mar, 1539; Bernal Diaz's Conquista de la Nueva España, 1632, the first edition; D'Orbigny's Voyage dans l'Amerique Méridionale; Frank von Word's Weltbuch, 1567; d'Hastrel's Costumes Américains; Herrera's Historia general; Lopez de Gomara's Historia general, 1554; Schouten's Voyage dans les Indes, 1618; Spilbergen's Miroir Oost et West- Indical, 1621; and the voyages of Acuña, Colnett, Dalrymple, Dumont d'Urville, Hakluyt, Hawkins and Juan and Ulloa; books on Brazil, including Chamberlain's Views of Rio de Janeiro, 1822, and the voyages of Debret and Rugendas; books on Chile and Peru, including Gay's Historia fisica y politica, Ovalle's Historia relacion, 1646, Schmidtmeyer's Travels, Bustamente's El lazarillo de ciegos, 1773, Diego de Cordoba's Cronica de los doze apostles del Perú, 1651, Garcilaso de la Vega's Commentarios reales, 1609, and Historia general, 1616, Xeres's Conquista del Peru, 1535, Zárate's Conquista de las provincias del Peru, 1577 and books printed at Lima by the Niños Expositos; works on the Jesuit missions of Paraguay by Dobrizhoffer, Jolis, Padre Lozano, Juan Alonso Ocon, Ruiz de Montoya, Techo and Xarque; books on Bolivia, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, Patagonia and the Falkland Islands. Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers laid in.