Manuscripts from ARTEM

American manuscript for the first Spanish technical steam engine treatise, with technical drawings. Juan José Martínez de Espinosa Tacón (1792-1875). Descripcion de las máquinas de vapor, y de sus mas importantes aplicaciones. Redactada con presencia de las mejores obras y de los informes de los primeros artistas de los Estados Unidos de America. Baltimore, December 1831. Folio. [6], 224 pp. With 12 tipped in… Read more about this item

Raynal on Central American colonial history [Guillaume-Thomas François "Abbé" Raynal (1713-1796)]. Autograph manuscript. No place, [after 1777-1796]. 4°. 1 p. on laid paper with fleur-de-lis watermark. With a loose engraved portrait of Raynal. Extensive autograph notes in French by Abbé Raynal on William Robertson's history of Central America in The History of America (1777), particularly discussing Mexican early colonial history. This autograph is not signed… Read more about this item

Manuscript description of inner Algeria 1841-1844 Ménon (1820-?). Les montagnes de Dj'erf-el-Achard ou la vie d'un jeune soldat en Afrique. Détails sur différentes villes de France et distance d'un endroit à l'autre, le nom des différents bivouacs. Les différentes embarcation et distance. Algeria, 1841-1844. 12°. 181 pp. With a paper sheet attached to front pastedown. With pencil drawings depicting plans of a fort on recto… Read more about this item

Controversial manuscript on the expulsion of Jesuits from South America ["Ministro di Stato" (= Bernardo Tanucci (1698-1783)?]. Notizie Anecdote. Italy (Naples?), 1759. 4°, 8 pp. Manuscript in black ink in a notarial hand on 18th century paper. Ruthlessly anti-Jesuit manuscript, possibly by Bernardo Tanucci: prime minister of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The text summarizes the events involving the Jesuits in the years 1755-1759, from… Read more about this item

Confidential diplomatic letter, laying out the opportunities for a new Dutch-Cuban sugar trade company Guillermo Lobé (1785-1883). [Autograph letter signed]. Havana, June 18, 1827. 4to. 13, [3 blank] pp. Ink on laid paper, with a watercolour drawing on a larger 4to loose wove paper sheet dated 1827. Important confidential manuscript letter by the Dutch-Spanish diplomat Guillermo Lobé, in which he lays out the commercial and… Read more about this item