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Alain Campbell White Letters to Frederick Gamage
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Alain Campbell White Letters to Frederick Gamage

by White, Alain Campbell (1880-1951) signed

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Alain Campbell White letters to Frederick Gamage cover the years from April 4, 1935 to September 15, 1944. For this ten year period there are 364 dated letters and 28 incomplete letters (lacking front date page). The letters are an ongoing correspondence between White and Gamage which covers all aspects of problem chess. The letters show a development of mentor (White), encouraging ad occasionally prodding his protégé (Gamage) in developing skills in problem construction. As the letters progress over this ten year period, the reader can observe the relationship develop between the two men, from a formal intercourse to a more comradely banter. White offered suggestions, comments and themes for problems. White's vast and profound technical knowledge, his artistic appreciation, his ability in expressing himself, and his enthusiastic and friendly encouragement were the great inspiration of many problems Gamage constructed, and he was lucky enough to be among his host of correspondents. Some of the… Read More
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Hacienda Manuscript from Oaxaca
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Hacienda Manuscript from Oaxaca

by Various authors

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1764?-1769, Oaxaca, Manuscript. 35 gatherings with approximately fourteen folded folio leaves (12 1/4"" x 10") in each gathering which are now stored in an archival protective sleeve. All hand written generally on recto and verso, but in many different hands with seals stamped or embossed to documents. Now housed in a custom designed folio enclosure (15" x 12 1/2") along with the original velum.This work details the agricultural, household and commercial operations, as well as the daily life, at the Hacienda. The manuscript includes business records, legal documents and a variety of other historical material. Originally housed in a vellum binding which has become loose, but enclosed within the custom enclosure for the document. This gives a glimpse of Oaxaca life at the end of New Spain's colonial reign in Mexico.Condition:Worming throughout, sometimes heavily. The terminal pages have heavy chipping and wear at extremities affecting text, some pages damp-stained. Original vellum wormed at the spine… Read More
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Manual de administrar los sanctos sacramentos a los Españoles y naturalesdesta Nueva España
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Manual de administrar los sanctos sacramentos a los Españoles y naturalesdesta Nueva España

by Contreras Gallardo, Pedro de

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1638, Mexico City, Juan Ruiz. Nuatal language.[8]+147+[5] leaves with Armorial woodcut on verso of title page. Duodecimo (5 1/2" x 3") bound later quarter morocco over marbled boards. (Sabin 16186. Medina, Mexico 502; Palau 60819) First edition.Although not indicated on the title, this rare and curious Manual contains the manner of administering the Sacraments in the Mexican and Spanish language interspersed with prayers in Latin.Condition:Minor wear, number tag on front board; damp-staining, moderate worming; several early inscriptions, small modern armorial bookplate on front pastedown. None known at auction since 1914. None found on worldcat very rare. A better than good copy.
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Commentaria Intres Grammaticae Libos Primaam et Secundam Classem tum Discipulis turn Magistro,...
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Commentaria Intres Grammaticae Libos Primaam et Secundam Classem tum Discipulis turn Magistro, Complectentes Hispano Idomate cum Appendicibus ei Itindice Copioso Illustrata

by Francisco de Avila (1573–1647?)

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[vi]+450+[1 blank]+[19 index] pages. Duodecimo (6" x 4 1/4") bound in period vellum with hand written title to spine. Dedicated to Beato Luis Gonzaga. Original manuscript.The work is attributed to Francisco de Avila. He was curate or vicar in the province of Huarochiri of Peru, later curate at Huánaco, finally Canon of the Church of La Plata (now Sucre), in Bolivia. Born in Peru as a foundling (quorum parentes ignorantur he says himself); date of demise unknown. He was one of the most active investigators of Indian rites and customs of his time. In 1608 he wrote a treatise of the "Errors, False Gods, and Other Superstitions of the Indians of the Provinces of Huarochiri, Mama, and Chaclla", of which unfortunately only the first six chapters are known to exist and have been translated into English. It is, even in its incomplete form, an invaluable contribution to the knowledge of the Peruvian Indians and their primitive lore. In 1611 Avila wrote an equally important report on the Indians of Huánaco in… Read More
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Voyages, Relations et Mémoires originaux pour servir à l'histoire de la découverte de l'Amérique
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Voyages, Relations et Mémoires originaux pour servir à l'histoire de la découverte de l'Amérique

by Ternaux-Compans, Henri (1807-1864)

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Henri Ternaux-Compans was one of the first collectors of Hispanic-Americana20 volumes bound in 10. Volume I: Narration du premier voyage de Nicolas Federmann le Jeune, d'Ulm (1557) 227 pages bound with Volume II: Histoire de la province de Sancta-Cruz / par Pero de Magalhanes de Gandavo (1576)162 pages. Volume III: Histoire d'un pays situé dans le nouveau monde, nommé Amérique / par Hans Staden de Homberg, en Hesse (1557) 335 pages bound with Volume IV: Relation véridique de la conquête du Pérou et de la province du Cuzco, nommée Nouvelle-Castille / par François Xérès (1547) viii+198 pages. Volume V: Histoire véritable d'un voyage curieux / fait par Ulrich Schmidel de Straubing (1599) 264 pages bound with Volume VI: Commentaires d'Alvar Nuñez de Cabeça de Vaca, adelantade et gouverneur du Rio de La Plata (1555) 507 pages. Volume VII: Relation et naufrages d'Alvar Nuñez de Cabeça de Vaca, adelantade et gouverneur du Rio de La Plata (1555) 302 pages bound with Volume VIII:… Read More
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Opposition et cases conjuguées sont reconciliées par Duchamp et Halberstadt = Opposition und...
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Opposition et cases conjuguées sont reconciliées par Duchamp et Halberstadt = Opposition und Schwesterfelder sind durch Duchamp et Halberstadt versöhnt = Opposition and sister squares are reconciled by Duchamp et Halberstadt.

by Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and Vitaly Halberstadt with letter from Duchamp

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112+[1 ad] pages with diagrams and errata laid in. Square folio (12 1/4" x 10 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers in original onionskin jacket with a handwritten letter signed by Marcel Duchamp housed in a handcrafted archival enclosure by Octavaye. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 2273) First edition.
Letter by Marcel Duchamp to Richard Hulbeck 25 October 1947. Reads as follows: Dear Hulbeck, The pictures are not back and I am afraid won't be back for some months. Schweizer, the representative there is in France and is coming back in a few weeks or days. He will have exact information about the return of the shipment. Don't worry and I will call you up some day soon. Affectueusement Marcel.
Richard Hulsenbeck (1892-1972) was a German writer, poet and psychoanalyst. In 1920 he was editor of the Dada Almanach and wrote Dada siegt-Eine Bilanz des Dadaismus. After emigration to USA in 1923 he changed his name to Hulbeck.Curiosity has impelled the authors to elucidate a question which… Read More
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Manual de administrar los sanctos sacramentos a los Españoles y naturales desta Nueva España
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Manual de administrar los sanctos sacramentos a los Españoles y naturales desta Nueva España

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[7 of 8]+147+[5]+leaves plus 12 additional inserted manuscript leaves. Duodecimo (6" x 4 1/4") bound later mottled calf, lacking title page supplied in facsimile. (Sabin 16186. Medina, Mexico 502; Palau 60819) First edition.
This rare and curious Manual contains the manner of administering the Sacraments in the Mexican and Spanish language interspersed with prayers in Latin. The extensive manuscript section at the rear of this copy has what appears to be the author's signature, Fr. de Contreras Gallardo, and a long selection of "Bendiciones anadadas a este manual." Medina, Mexico 502; Palau 60819.Condition:
Minor wear; damp staining, moderate worming; lacking title page, moderate wear and minor damp staining, colophon leaf worn, 12 leaves of manuscript text inserted between index and colophon; unidentified marca de fuego on top edge (deeper than usual and touching text in places), binder's tag on front pastedown else a good copy.
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Cathecismo romano, traducido en castellano, y mexicano
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Cathecismo romano, traducido en castellano, y mexicano

by Manuel Pérez

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[28], 248 pages. Quarto (8 1/4" x 6") bound in contemporary vellum. (Medina, Mexico 2719 ("interesante"); Palau 219407; Pilling 2957; Sabin 60912) First edition. A lesser-known work by the author of Farol Indiana, offering a translation of the Roman catechism into both Spanish and Nahuatl. In his "Nahuatl translation", Manuel Pérez often demonstrates that some words are difficult to translate, or even that there is no equivalent at hand at all. Translating the Spanish words for 'the angels, mankind, the heavens, and the elements', he breaks off to explain that 'there is no word for elements.' In reflection on the suffering and death of Jesus Christ, he notes in the middle of his Nahuatl text that 'the Spanish equivalent of the Latin verb 'impello' should not be translated into Nahuatl where the original is used, since they may think that he died involuntarily.As this example demonstrates, Pérez attempts to avoid any possible ambiguous interpretation and he makes an important step, seen from the… Read More
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The Venus Quintet Series: Pirates of Venus/Lost on Venus/Carson of Venus/Escape on Venus and  The...
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The Venus Quintet Series: Pirates of Venus/Lost on Venus/Carson of Venus/Escape on Venus and The Wizard of Venus in a collection of Tales of Three Planets

by Edgar Rice "E R" Burroughs (1875-1950) signed

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The Venus Quintet Series
Pirates of Venus: 314+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's blue pebble cloth with red letting to spine and cover. Lost on Venus: 318+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue pebble cloth with red letting to spine and cover. Carson of Venus: 312+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. . Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth lettered in red, red top edge, Escape on Venus: 347 pages with frontispiece and illustrations.. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with red lettering to spine and cover. The Wizard of Venus: 205-282 pages illustrated by Roy G Krenkel, all with illustrated endpapers of map of Amtor; all in original pictorial dust jackets. Included a signed typed letter from Burroughs. one page, (8. 1/2" x 11"), Edgar Rice… Read More
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The History and Present State of Virginia, in four parts . By a native and inhabitant of the place
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The History and Present State of Virginia, in four parts . By a native and inhabitant of the place

by Robert Beverley Jr (1667-1722)

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[12]+19+[errata+104+40+64+83 pages with engraved frontispiece, fourteen engraved plates, all by Gribelin and folding letterpress table. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in contemporary style leather with five raised spine bands with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped decorative cover. ( Church 821; European Americana, 705/21; Field 122 (later edition); Howes B410; Pilling, Algonquian, p. 43; Sabin 5112; Streeter sale 2:1098; Vail 297) First edition.
Robert Beverley, best known, as author of The History and Present State of Virginia, In Four Parts (1705), the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. Beverley worked as a clerk in Jamestown using family connections to advance politically while acquiring substantial wealth. In 1703 he sailed to England to appeal a suit he lost before the General Court, and there he penned his history, a collection of personal history, official accounts, and material borrowed from others. Beverley self-consciously identified… Read More
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Il Givoco de Gli Scacchi di Rui Lopez, Spagnuolo; Nuouamente Tradotto in Lingua Italiana
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Il Givoco de Gli Scacchi di Rui Lopez, Spagnuolo; Nuouamente Tradotto in Lingua Italiana

by Rodrigo "Ruy" López de Segura (c1530-c1580)

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[vi]+214+[i] pages with chessboard illustration, 6 chess pieces as text vignettes and many decorated woodcut initials. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in later vellum with brown label to spine in gilt lettering. Translated from the Spanish by G. Domenicus Tarsia. (Schmid p. 236 ff. L/N 372. van der Linde I, 348) First Italian edition, first state with gomito, Gobito and Gombito on lines 1, 3 and 6 on page 133 whereas the later variant has consistent spelling gomito (elbow). First Italian edition of the original Spanish edition by G. Domenicus Tarsia, extremely rare. This Italian translation is a somewhat free adaptation, which was enhanced with woodcuts. Selenus edited the main content of his chess work from the printed Italian translation. His textbook contains the rules of the game, strategies and openings. He preferred the Bishop game, especially "the Gambit des Lopez" and the King's Gambit. Lopez is considered the "father of chess theory" since he was the first to explain his moves. An important… Read More
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An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and Through the Western Parts of...
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An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana, To the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Juan, Rivers; Performed By Order of the Government of the United States

by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813)

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5+[3]-277+[5]+65+[1]+53+[1]+87+[1] pages with frontispiece, 3 folding tables, a chart (on 5 separate leaves) and 6 maps (5 folding). Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lettering in gilt with five raised spine bands in custom enclosure. (Howes P-373, "b"; Wagner-Camp 9:1; Graff 3290; Wheat Transmississippi 297, 298, 299; Field 1217; Streeter Texas 1047C; Bradford 4415; Rittenhouse 467; Sabin 62936; Jones 743; Braislin 1474; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 163; Hill 1357; Reese, Best of the West, # 32) First edition.

Zebulon Pike, U.S. army officer and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was named. In 1805 Pike, then an army lieutenant, led a 20-man exploring party to the headwaters of the Mississippi River with instructions to discover the river s source, negotiate peace treaties with Indian tribes, and assert the legal claim of the United States to the area. Pike traveled 2,000 miles by boat and on foot from St. Louis, Missouri, to Leech and Sandy lakes, in… Read More
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A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, Extending Above Four Thousand Miles Between New...
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2 volumes in one. [xx]+engraved title-page+folding map+355 pages with frontispiece, folding maps and folding plates. [xxvi]+folding map+178 pages with folding plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in attractive later red morocco with five raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine, edges in gilt. (Graff 1862; Howes H-416; Lande 423; Pforzheimer 461; Sabin 31371; Streeter J106; Thwaite, 1903 edition, p.xlii; Wing H1450) First English edition.
The "Bon" issue (with the first line of the printers on the title-page ending in "Bon-"). This work includes A Continuation of the New Discovery bound at the end with separate title-page and pagination, but with continuous signatures.
One of the most important 17th-century accounts of the upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions. Louis Hennepin, Rene Robert Cavelier and Sieur de la Salle established Fort Crevecouer in Peoria, Illinois, and explored the upper Mississippi River before being captured by the Sioux. Hennepin reached St. Anthony's Falls (near… Read More
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Camino del cielo en lengua mexicana: con todos los requisitos necessarios para conseguir este...
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Camino del cielo en lengua mexicana: con todos los requisitos necessarios para conseguir este fin, co[n] todo lo que vn [Christ]iano deue creer, saber, y obrar, desde el punto que tiene vso de razon, hasta que muere

by Martín de León

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[12]+160+[7] leaves with 2 woodcut illustrations. Small quarto (7 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original contemporary vellum with hand written title to spine. (Woodbridge, Printing in Colonial Spanish America, page 26). Medina, Mexico 260; Palau 135423; Pilling 2252; Sabin 40080 ("extremely scarce") First edition. An early catechism, confessional, and church calendar in Nahuatl, with Spanish on facing pages in some parts.
This was the last known book printed by Dávalos, who used the type and press inherited from his father-in-law Antonio de Espinosa, the second printer in the New World. The printing press at the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Santiago Tlatelolco or Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco was established by Maria de Sansoric or Sansores, second widow of Pedro Ocharte, in the year 1597. Its importance lies in the publication of religious works translated from Spanish into Nahuatl and other native languages ​​for the Christianization of the inhabitants of New Spain in 1601, it is believed that… Read More
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Mostly Harmless

by Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001) inscribed

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The trilogy in five volumes. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 215 pages. Bound in quarter purple cloth with purple gilt lettering to spine over grey boars with blind-stamped pictorial to cover in original jacket. Signed on title; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 250 pages. Bound in original quarter aqua cloth with purple gilt lettering to spine over black boards with purple pictorial to cover in original jacket. Inscribed on the front end paper; Life, the Universe and Everything 204 pages. Bound in black cloth with green gilt lettering to spine and green gilt pictorial to cover in original jacket. signed on title; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 204 pages. Bound in black boards with green gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover in original jacket. Inscribed to Josh on title. Small octavos (7 ½" x 5") bound original quarter cloth with original pictorial jackets. Mostly Harmless 277 pages. Signed on title. Octavo (8 ½" x 5 ½") bound in original publisher s quarter purple… Read More
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