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	ABAILARD, PIERRE. Vida de Heloise, e Abeilard. Traduzida em portuguêz, com as cartas amorozas da correspondência destes infelizes amantes. Primeira edição. Lisboa: João Nunes Esteves, 1822. 8vo. 209p. Marbled boards, vellum-backed; minor stains on final three leaves. Moral philosopher, theologian and poet, Abailard was one of the most controversial teachers of the 12th century. The letters of Abailard and Héloise, written after their separation, reveal their tragic love affair. There are eight letters in all - though the authenticity of at least some parts of the text is doubtful. Originally written in Latin, they were frequently translated. This edition not in NUC. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 17/001 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	ANON. Matraca en romance, coplas en verso, el abate que voy, el coco de las Sardinas, y espantajo de los Pezes. A la derrota de la armada inglesa. [Sevilla? c.1700-10.] 4to. [4]p. Drop title. Text in two columns per page. Modern half morocco. A satirical ballad of 292 lines concerning the activity of the Anglo-Dutch fleet off the Spanish coast in the first years of the 18th century - the "bogeyman of the sardines and the scarer of the fishes." Palau 158366 "Sevilla, 1700-10". Not found in Escudero or in Almirante. Not in BL STC 18th century.. Maggs Cat. 508 (1928) Bibliotheca nautica, pt.1, 202. No copy located in NUC. GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 166.5 US$ 249.15 \| JP¥ 22011] Book number: 18/061 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	ARFE Y VILLAFAÑE, JUAN DE. Varia commensuraciòn para la escultura y arquitectura ... Sexta impresiòn. Añadido por Don Pedro Enguera ... el relox vertical, con declinaciòn, y sin ella: el relox oriental, y occidental, y en todos puestos los signos. Madrid: en la Imprenta de Miguel Escribano; se hallará en la librería de Josef Mathias Escribano, 1773. Fol. [4], 298p. With numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Marginal tear in title page carefully repaired. Modern quarter light brown morocco, marbled boards. New end-papers. First published at Seville in 1585, with a second edition appearing at Madrid in 1675, followed by four editions in the 18th century. This work is divided into four books: Book I on geometry, with an appendix on sundials added by Pedro de Enguera, Book II on the proportions of the human body and its parts, Book III on the proportions of the bodies of animals, Book IV on the five orders of architecture and on church fittings. The woodcuts, taken from the original blocks, include spirited representations of domestic and wild animals (e.g. a rhinoceros, elephant and dromedary), illustrations of human anatomy and proportion as well as architectural details. Palau 16058. Fowler 29. Bonet Correa 292. Not in BL STC Spanish, 18th century. GBP 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 665.5 US$ 996.6 \| JP¥ 88046] Book number: 8/004 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	CHARLES III, KING OF SPAIN. Real cédula de erecciòn de la Compañía de Filipinas de 10 de marzo de 1785. Madrid: por D. Joachin Ibarra, [1785]. Fol. [2], 57p. New marbled boards, morocco spine. New end-papers. This decree which established the Compañia de Filipinas ended colonial Mexico's monopoly of the trade between Spain and the Philippines. For two hundred years all Philippine goods had to be transported to Spain via Acapulco. The decree contains 100 articles devoted to the administration, development and export policy of the Compañia de Filipinas, which was modelled on the British East India Company. There was another Madrid edition of 1785 published by Pedro Marin and also Barcelona and Cádiz editions of the same year. Palau 249957; BL STC Spanish, 18th century, S662; Medina, Biblioteca española de las islas filipinas, 538; Ensayo de bibliografía marítima española, 1341; Bancroft, p.576. GBP 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 388.25 US$ 581.35 \| JP¥ 51360] Book number: 18/004 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	COLUTHUS (COLLUTHUS). Coluthi Lycopolitae Thebani De raptu Helenae libellus. Ex graecis in latina carmina conversus, versionibus, variantibus, & animadversionibus illustratus. Opera, et studio Philippi Scio a Sancto Michaele. Matriti: ex typographia Antonii Marin, 1770. 4to. [24], 174, [1]p. Contemporary calf; a fine copy. The Rape of Helen is the only extant poem of Coluthus, Greek epic poet from Lycopolis in Egypt (fl. c.500 A.D.). Written in imitation of Homer and Nonnus, the poem tells the story of Paris and Helen from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis down to the elopement and arrival in Troy. This edition contains the Greek text, Latin version by Phelipe Scio de San Miguel, Bishop of Segovia, and a Spanish version by Ignacio García de San Antonio. Palau 57424. No copy recorded in NUC (whose earliest Spanish translation is Paris, 1823). BL STC Spanish, 18th century, C761. GBP 280.00 [Appr.: EURO 310.75 US$ 465.08 \| JP¥ 41088] Book number: 18/048 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DOMENECH, EMMANUEL. L'empire au Méxique et la candidature d'un prince bonaparte au trone méxicain. Paris: Dentu, 1862. 8vo. [4], 154, [1]p. Modern marbled boards, morocco-backed. New end-papers. Domenech, born in Lyon in 1826, was a missionary to Texas who became Chaplain of the French army in Mexico and Director of the Press for the Emperor Maximilian. Domenech had access to Maximilian's correspondence and made good use of it in volume 2 of his Histoire de Méxique. Juarez et Maximilien: correspondances inédites (1868). Included amongst Domenech's numerous travel accounts and works of contemporary history are his Journal d'un missionnaire au Texas et au Méxique, 1846-1852 (1857); Voyage pittoresque dans les grands déserts du Nouveau Monde (1862); Le Méxique tel qu'il est (1867). Domenech's reputation as a scholar suffered somewhat after he published Manuscrit pictographique américain, précédé d'une notice sur l'idéographie des Peaux-Rouges (1860) since this supposed Indian manuscript turned out to be spurious - the drawing-book of a German schoolboy. Palau 75068; Sabin 20546 (Paris, n.d.); G. Hernández Tapia, Ensayo de una bibliografía de la intervenciòn europea en México en el siglo XIX (1861-1867), no.238. GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 138.75 US$ 207.63 \| JP¥ 18343] Book number: 18/023 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	ECHEGARAY, JOSÉ. El libro talonario, comedia en un acto y en verso. Madrid: Imprenta de José Rodriguez, 1874. 8vo. 47p. Dark green morocco spine, marbled paper boards; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Inscription from the author on half title. A few pages very lightly browned. Echegaray was a mathematician and engineer by training who later became Minister of Finance and founded the Bank of Spain. His other life was that of playwright and he dominated the Spanish stage for thirty years from 1875, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904. El libro talonario, written under the anagram Jorge Hayaseca, was his first play, a drawing-room comedy in which a young wife ingeniously turns the tables on her unfaithful husband. This is the first edition; the play was presented for the first time at the Teatro de Apolo, Madrid, on 18 February 1874. Bound with ECHEGARAY, José: La esposa del vengador. Drama en tres actos y en verso. Madrid: Imprenta de José Rodriguez, 1874. 8vo. 88p. La esposa del vengador is one of some sixty plays which followed El libro talonario. It was first produced at the Teatro Español, Madrid, on 14 November 1874. This is the first edition. GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 US$ 99.66 \| JP¥ 8805] Book number: 8/027 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	GALLEGOS Y CASTRO, ESTEVAN JOSÉ. Oracion funebre en las exequias con que se solemnizo el dia XXIII. de agosto de MDCCLXX. la translacion de los huesos del illmo. Señor D.D. Diego del Corro, dignísimo Arzobispo de Lima, á esta Santa Iglesia Catedral desde el Pueblo de San Gerònimo de Xauxa, donde falleciò visitando la diocesi. Dixola el D.D. Estevan Joseph Gallegos. Lima: en la Imprenta de los Niños Huérfanos [1770]. 4to. [12], 30p. Vellum covers. Provides valuable biographical information on Diego del Corro, 15th archbishop of Lima. Corro was educated at Rome and a doctor of the University of Sigüenza. In 1752 he became bishop of Papayán and later, in 1758, was made archbishop of Lima. He died at Jauja in 1761 whilst on a pastoral visit to his diocese. This oration was delivered on the occasion of the transfer of his remains from Jauja to the Cathedral at Lima. Medina, Lima, 1309. Not in Palau. Not in BLC. NUC gives 2 locations: Yale & Duke U.L. GBP 240.00 [Appr.: EURO 266.25 US$ 398.64 \| JP¥ 35218] Book number: 18/013 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LINGUET, SIMON NICOLAS HENRI. Théâtre espagnol. Tome second. Paris: chez De Hansy, le jeune 1770. 12mo. [4], 497p. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine and corners worn. The rear paste-down has a (19th-century?) Russian library book label: Tsentral'naia Bibioteka Imperatorsnikh Teatrov. The second of three volumes. This volume contains four plays each with half title as follows:- Le viol puni, en espagnol, L'alcade de Zalamea; La cloison, en espagnol, El escondido y la tapada; Se défier des apparences, en espagnol, Nunca lo peor es cierto; La journée difficile, en espagnol, Los empeños de seis horas. The first three items are by Pedro Calderòn de la Barca. The fourth item, Los empeños de seis horas - wrongly ascribed to Calderòn on the half title - is by Antonio Coello (1611-1652). Reichenberger, K. & R. Bibliographisches Handbuch der Calderòn-Forschung, I, 58(ii) GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 US$ 99.66 \| JP¥ 8805] Book number: 18/221 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MOLINA, JUAN IGNATIUS. The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili. Illustrated by a half-sheet map of the country. With notes from the Spanish and French versions, and an appendix, containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Translated from the original Italian, by an American gentleman. Middletown (Conn.): printed for I. Riley, 1808. 2 vols. Vol.1: [8], xii., 271, [2]p. 1 fold. map. Vol.2: [2], viii, [2], 305, [3], 68p. Pages a little yellowed. Stamp on title pages of Boston College High School Domestic Library. New marbled boards, morocco-backed. New end-papers. Born in Chile in 1740, Molina entered the Jesuits in Santiago in 1755. With the expulsion of the Society by Charles III in 1767 he followed his confrères to Italy, eventually being appointed to the chair of natural history at the Pontifical Institute in Bologna. He gained scientific renown with his Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili (1782) and Saggio sulla storia civile del Chili (1787) which were quickly translated into Spanish by Nicolás de la Cruz y Bahamonde as Compendio de historia geográfica natural y civil del reino de Chile (Madrid, 1788-95). This, the first edition in English, was translated by Richard Alsop, an American millionaire considered the most intellectually gifted of "The Hartford Wits". Shaw & Shoemaker, no. 15628; Sabin 49893. De Backer-Sommervogel, V, col.1165-6, no.4. This American edition not in BL. GBP 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 277.5 US$ 415.25 \| JP¥ 36686] Book number: 18/030 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	SPAIN - NAVY. Estado general de la Real Armada. Año de 1808. Madrid: en la Imprenta Real, [1809]. 8vo. 160p. Red morocco armorial binding, gilt-edged leaves. A listing by name of all the personnel in the higher ranks of the Spanish Navy. Divided up by department e.g. Tesorería del Almirantazgo, Cuerpo de Medicina y Cirugía, Capitanes de Puerto, Infantería de Marina, Correos marítimos. The list also includes details of personnel of Spanish naval bases overseas e.g. Apostaderos de Marina en las Indias. According to Palau this series of Navy Lists was begun in 1785. Palau 83336. BLC has 5 volumes covering the years 1829-32, 1858. GBP 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 222 US$ 332.2 \| JP¥ 29349] Book number: 8/088 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	TORENO, JOSÉ MARÍA QUEIPO DE LLANO Y RUIZ DE SARAVÍA, CONDE DE. Information on the principal events which took place in the government of Spain, from the commencement of the insurrection, in 1808, to the dissolution of the ordinary Cortes, in 1814; intended to explain the causes which led to the late revolution, and more particularly to repel the calumnies of the French press ... Translated from the original Spanish, by William Walton, Esq., exclusively for the Pamphleteer. London: 1820. (The Pamphleteer, vol.17, no.33) 8vo. 43p. Modern marbled paper wrappers. Toreno (1786-1843), Asturian nobleman, historian and Liberal, is chiefly remembered as the author of Historia del levantamiento, guerra y revoluciòn de España, Madrid, 1835-37. He was present at Madrid when the city rose against Murat in 1808 and took part in the struggle which was the beginning of the Peninsular War. A deputy in the Cortes (1811-14), he helped frame the Constitution of 1812. In exile from 1814 to 1820, he returned to the restored Cortes but when the French intervened in 1823 again went into exile. For a brief few months in 1834 - during the regency of Maria Christina - he was Prime Minister. The translator of this tract, William Walton, was educated in Spain and Portugal, travelled in Spanish America, and became British agent in San Domingo (1802-09). After his return to England in 1810 he chiefly devoted himself to writing against government policy in Spain and Portugal. Alberich 980. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 18/068 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	WARD, BERNARDO. Proyecto econòmico, en que se proponen varias providencias, dirigidas á promover los intereses de España, con los medios y fondos necesarios para su plantificaciòn: escrito en el año de 1762 ... Obra postuma. Segunda impresiòn. Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra, 1779. 4to. [4], xxviii, 400p. Modern vellum. Some very slight marginal water-staining. Ward, an Irishman who had settled in Spain, was commissioned by Ferdinand VI to undertake a fact-finding mission in Europe in 1750-54, and upon his return composed the Proyecto econòmico, completed in 1762 but published posthumously in 1779 (1st and 2nd editions, with a 3rd edition in 1782 and a 4th in 1787). The Proyecto econòmico suggests ways of encouraging agriculture and commerce in Spain and her colonies. The proposals are quite specific and were probably controversial. In Part 1, for example, which is concerned mostly with Spain, Ward proposes the abolition of privileges granted to guilds, cities, provinces, the Mesta and the Cabaña Real (p.147). Part 2 is concerned with the Spanish possessions in the Americas. Ward shows how Spain might imitate British and French commercial practice in their colonies. He suggests that the Indians be given and taught to cultivate land, or taught to run other businesses, and that they be allowed to trade more freely among themselves, with colonists and with Spain. Ward also advocates the extension of trade between Spain's American possessions and Asia, and the establishment of a regular system of transportation and communication between Spain and the colonies. The final section of Part 2 (pp.320-400), Obra pía, medio de remediar la miseria de la gente pobre de España, originally published separately in 1750, is "an influential work on the question of poverty and idleness" that "especially promoted the idea that the State could expect substantial economic benefits by applying the idle poor to useful tasks". - W.J. Callahan, Honor, commerce and industry in 18th-century Spain, p.60. Medina, BHA 494. Palau 373988. Kress Library Cat. B243. GBP 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 499.25 US$ 747.45 \| JP¥ 66034] Book number: 8/096 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.

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	ABAILARD, PIERRE. Vida de Heloise, e Abeilard. Traduzida em portuguêz, com as cartas amorozas da correspondência destes infelizes amantes. Primeira edição. Lisboa: João Nunes Esteves, 1822. 8vo. 209p. Marbled boards, vellum-backed; minor stains on final three leaves. Moral philosopher, theologian and poet, Abailard was one of the most controversial teachers of the 12th century. The letters of Abailard and Héloise, written after their separation, reveal their tragic love affair. There are eight letters in all - though the authenticity of at least some parts of the text is doubtful. Originally written in Latin, they were frequently translated. This edition not in NUC. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 17/001 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	ANON. Matraca en romance, coplas en verso, el abate que voy, el coco de las Sardinas, y espantajo de los Pezes. A la derrota de la armada inglesa. [Sevilla? c.1700-10.] 4to. [4]p. Drop title. Text in two columns per page. Modern half morocco. A satirical ballad of 292 lines concerning the activity of the Anglo-Dutch fleet off the Spanish coast in the first years of the 18th century - the "bogeyman of the sardines and the scarer of the fishes." Palau 158366 "Sevilla, 1700-10". Not found in Escudero or in Almirante. Not in BL STC 18th century.. Maggs Cat. 508 (1928) Bibliotheca nautica, pt.1, 202. No copy located in NUC. GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 166.5 US$ 249.15 \| JP¥ 22011] Book number: 18/061 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	ARFE Y VILLAFAÑE, JUAN DE. Varia commensuraciòn para la escultura y arquitectura ... Sexta impresiòn. Añadido por Don Pedro Enguera ... el relox vertical, con declinaciòn, y sin ella: el relox oriental, y occidental, y en todos puestos los signos. Madrid: en la Imprenta de Miguel Escribano; se hallará en la librería de Josef Mathias Escribano, 1773. Fol. [4], 298p. With numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Marginal tear in title page carefully repaired. Modern quarter light brown morocco, marbled boards. New end-papers. First published at Seville in 1585, with a second edition appearing at Madrid in 1675, followed by four editions in the 18th century. This work is divided into four books: Book I on geometry, with an appendix on sundials added by Pedro de Enguera, Book II on the proportions of the human body and its parts, Book III on the proportions of the bodies of animals, Book IV on the five orders of architecture and on church fittings. The woodcuts, taken from the original blocks, include spirited representations of domestic and wild animals (e.g. a rhinoceros, elephant and dromedary), illustrations of human anatomy and proportion as well as architectural details. Palau 16058. Fowler 29. Bonet Correa 292. Not in BL STC Spanish, 18th century. GBP 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 665.5 US$ 996.6 \| JP¥ 88046] Book number: 8/004 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	CHARLES III, KING OF SPAIN. Real cédula de erecciòn de la Compañía de Filipinas de 10 de marzo de 1785. Madrid: por D. Joachin Ibarra, [1785]. Fol. [2], 57p. New marbled boards, morocco spine. New end-papers. This decree which established the Compañia de Filipinas ended colonial Mexico's monopoly of the trade between Spain and the Philippines. For two hundred years all Philippine goods had to be transported to Spain via Acapulco. The decree contains 100 articles devoted to the administration, development and export policy of the Compañia de Filipinas, which was modelled on the British East India Company. There was another Madrid edition of 1785 published by Pedro Marin and also Barcelona and Cádiz editions of the same year. Palau 249957; BL STC Spanish, 18th century, S662; Medina, Biblioteca española de las islas filipinas, 538; Ensayo de bibliografía marítima española, 1341; Bancroft, p.576. GBP 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 388.25 US$ 581.35 \| JP¥ 51360] Book number: 18/004 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	COLUTHUS (COLLUTHUS). Coluthi Lycopolitae Thebani De raptu Helenae libellus. Ex graecis in latina carmina conversus, versionibus, variantibus, & animadversionibus illustratus. Opera, et studio Philippi Scio a Sancto Michaele. Matriti: ex typographia Antonii Marin, 1770. 4to. [24], 174, [1]p. Contemporary calf; a fine copy. The Rape of Helen is the only extant poem of Coluthus, Greek epic poet from Lycopolis in Egypt (fl. c.500 A.D.). Written in imitation of Homer and Nonnus, the poem tells the story of Paris and Helen from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis down to the elopement and arrival in Troy. This edition contains the Greek text, Latin version by Phelipe Scio de San Miguel, Bishop of Segovia, and a Spanish version by Ignacio García de San Antonio. Palau 57424. No copy recorded in NUC (whose earliest Spanish translation is Paris, 1823). BL STC Spanish, 18th century, C761. GBP 280.00 [Appr.: EURO 310.75 US$ 465.08 \| JP¥ 41088] Book number: 18/048 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DOMENECH, EMMANUEL. L'empire au Méxique et la candidature d'un prince bonaparte au trone méxicain. Paris: Dentu, 1862. 8vo. [4], 154, [1]p. Modern marbled boards, morocco-backed. New end-papers. Domenech, born in Lyon in 1826, was a missionary to Texas who became Chaplain of the French army in Mexico and Director of the Press for the Emperor Maximilian. Domenech had access to Maximilian's correspondence and made good use of it in volume 2 of his Histoire de Méxique. Juarez et Maximilien: correspondances inédites (1868). Included amongst Domenech's numerous travel accounts and works of contemporary history are his Journal d'un missionnaire au Texas et au Méxique, 1846-1852 (1857); Voyage pittoresque dans les grands déserts du Nouveau Monde (1862); Le Méxique tel qu'il est (1867). Domenech's reputation as a scholar suffered somewhat after he published Manuscrit pictographique américain, précédé d'une notice sur l'idéographie des Peaux-Rouges (1860) since this supposed Indian manuscript turned out to be spurious - the drawing-book of a German schoolboy. Palau 75068; Sabin 20546 (Paris, n.d.); G. Hernández Tapia, Ensayo de una bibliografía de la intervenciòn europea en México en el siglo XIX (1861-1867), no.238. GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 138.75 US$ 207.63 \| JP¥ 18343] Book number: 18/023 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	ECHEGARAY, JOSÉ. El libro talonario, comedia en un acto y en verso. Madrid: Imprenta de José Rodriguez, 1874. 8vo. 47p. Dark green morocco spine, marbled paper boards; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Inscription from the author on half title. A few pages very lightly browned. Echegaray was a mathematician and engineer by training who later became Minister of Finance and founded the Bank of Spain. His other life was that of playwright and he dominated the Spanish stage for thirty years from 1875, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904. El libro talonario, written under the anagram Jorge Hayaseca, was his first play, a drawing-room comedy in which a young wife ingeniously turns the tables on her unfaithful husband. This is the first edition; the play was presented for the first time at the Teatro de Apolo, Madrid, on 18 February 1874. Bound with ECHEGARAY, José: La esposa del vengador. Drama en tres actos y en verso. Madrid: Imprenta de José Rodriguez, 1874. 8vo. 88p. La esposa del vengador is one of some sixty plays which followed El libro talonario. It was first produced at the Teatro Español, Madrid, on 14 November 1874. This is the first edition. GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 US$ 99.66 \| JP¥ 8805] Book number: 8/027 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	GALLEGOS Y CASTRO, ESTEVAN JOSÉ. Oracion funebre en las exequias con que se solemnizo el dia XXIII. de agosto de MDCCLXX. la translacion de los huesos del illmo. Señor D.D. Diego del Corro, dignísimo Arzobispo de Lima, á esta Santa Iglesia Catedral desde el Pueblo de San Gerònimo de Xauxa, donde falleciò visitando la diocesi. Dixola el D.D. Estevan Joseph Gallegos. Lima: en la Imprenta de los Niños Huérfanos [1770]. 4to. [12], 30p. Vellum covers. Provides valuable biographical information on Diego del Corro, 15th archbishop of Lima. Corro was educated at Rome and a doctor of the University of Sigüenza. In 1752 he became bishop of Papayán and later, in 1758, was made archbishop of Lima. He died at Jauja in 1761 whilst on a pastoral visit to his diocese. This oration was delivered on the occasion of the transfer of his remains from Jauja to the Cathedral at Lima. Medina, Lima, 1309. Not in Palau. Not in BLC. NUC gives 2 locations: Yale & Duke U.L. GBP 240.00 [Appr.: EURO 266.25 US$ 398.64 \| JP¥ 35218] Book number: 18/013 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LINGUET, SIMON NICOLAS HENRI. Théâtre espagnol. Tome second. Paris: chez De Hansy, le jeune 1770. 12mo. [4], 497p. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine and corners worn. The rear paste-down has a (19th-century?) Russian library book label: Tsentral'naia Bibioteka Imperatorsnikh Teatrov. The second of three volumes. This volume contains four plays each with half title as follows:- Le viol puni, en espagnol, L'alcade de Zalamea; La cloison, en espagnol, El escondido y la tapada; Se défier des apparences, en espagnol, Nunca lo peor es cierto; La journée difficile, en espagnol, Los empeños de seis horas. The first three items are by Pedro Calderòn de la Barca. The fourth item, Los empeños de seis horas - wrongly ascribed to Calderòn on the half title - is by Antonio Coello (1611-1652). Reichenberger, K. & R. Bibliographisches Handbuch der Calderòn-Forschung, I, 58(ii) GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 US$ 99.66 \| JP¥ 8805] Book number: 18/221 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MOLINA, JUAN IGNATIUS. The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili. Illustrated by a half-sheet map of the country. With notes from the Spanish and French versions, and an appendix, containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Translated from the original Italian, by an American gentleman. Middletown (Conn.): printed for I. Riley, 1808. 2 vols. Vol.1: [8], xii., 271, [2]p. 1 fold. map. Vol.2: [2], viii, [2], 305, [3], 68p. Pages a little yellowed. Stamp on title pages of Boston College High School Domestic Library. New marbled boards, morocco-backed. New end-papers. Born in Chile in 1740, Molina entered the Jesuits in Santiago in 1755. With the expulsion of the Society by Charles III in 1767 he followed his confrères to Italy, eventually being appointed to the chair of natural history at the Pontifical Institute in Bologna. He gained scientific renown with his Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili (1782) and Saggio sulla storia civile del Chili (1787) which were quickly translated into Spanish by Nicolás de la Cruz y Bahamonde as Compendio de historia geográfica natural y civil del reino de Chile (Madrid, 1788-95). This, the first edition in English, was translated by Richard Alsop, an American millionaire considered the most intellectually gifted of "The Hartford Wits". Shaw & Shoemaker, no. 15628; Sabin 49893. De Backer-Sommervogel, V, col.1165-6, no.4. This American edition not in BL. GBP 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 277.5 US$ 415.25 \| JP¥ 36686] Book number: 18/030 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	SPAIN - NAVY. Estado general de la Real Armada. Año de 1808. Madrid: en la Imprenta Real, [1809]. 8vo. 160p. Red morocco armorial binding, gilt-edged leaves. A listing by name of all the personnel in the higher ranks of the Spanish Navy. Divided up by department e.g. Tesorería del Almirantazgo, Cuerpo de Medicina y Cirugía, Capitanes de Puerto, Infantería de Marina, Correos marítimos. The list also includes details of personnel of Spanish naval bases overseas e.g. Apostaderos de Marina en las Indias. According to Palau this series of Navy Lists was begun in 1785. Palau 83336. BLC has 5 volumes covering the years 1829-32, 1858. GBP 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 222 US$ 332.2 \| JP¥ 29349] Book number: 8/088 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	TORENO, JOSÉ MARÍA QUEIPO DE LLANO Y RUIZ DE SARAVÍA, CONDE DE. Information on the principal events which took place in the government of Spain, from the commencement of the insurrection, in 1808, to the dissolution of the ordinary Cortes, in 1814; intended to explain the causes which led to the late revolution, and more particularly to repel the calumnies of the French press ... Translated from the original Spanish, by William Walton, Esq., exclusively for the Pamphleteer. London: 1820. (The Pamphleteer, vol.17, no.33) 8vo. 43p. Modern marbled paper wrappers. Toreno (1786-1843), Asturian nobleman, historian and Liberal, is chiefly remembered as the author of Historia del levantamiento, guerra y revoluciòn de España, Madrid, 1835-37. He was present at Madrid when the city rose against Murat in 1808 and took part in the struggle which was the beginning of the Peninsular War. A deputy in the Cortes (1811-14), he helped frame the Constitution of 1812. In exile from 1814 to 1820, he returned to the restored Cortes but when the French intervened in 1823 again went into exile. For a brief few months in 1834 - during the regency of Maria Christina - he was Prime Minister. The translator of this tract, William Walton, was educated in Spain and Portugal, travelled in Spanish America, and became British agent in San Domingo (1802-09). After his return to England in 1810 he chiefly devoted himself to writing against government policy in Spain and Portugal. Alberich 980. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 18/068 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	WARD, BERNARDO. Proyecto econòmico, en que se proponen varias providencias, dirigidas á promover los intereses de España, con los medios y fondos necesarios para su plantificaciòn: escrito en el año de 1762 ... Obra postuma. Segunda impresiòn. Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra, 1779. 4to. [4], xxviii, 400p. Modern vellum. Some very slight marginal water-staining. Ward, an Irishman who had settled in Spain, was commissioned by Ferdinand VI to undertake a fact-finding mission in Europe in 1750-54, and upon his return composed the Proyecto econòmico, completed in 1762 but published posthumously in 1779 (1st and 2nd editions, with a 3rd edition in 1782 and a 4th in 1787). The Proyecto econòmico suggests ways of encouraging agriculture and commerce in Spain and her colonies. The proposals are quite specific and were probably controversial. In Part 1, for example, which is concerned mostly with Spain, Ward proposes the abolition of privileges granted to guilds, cities, provinces, the Mesta and the Cabaña Real (p.147). Part 2 is concerned with the Spanish possessions in the Americas. Ward shows how Spain might imitate British and French commercial practice in their colonies. He suggests that the Indians be given and taught to cultivate land, or taught to run other businesses, and that they be allowed to trade more freely among themselves, with colonists and with Spain. Ward also advocates the extension of trade between Spain's American possessions and Asia, and the establishment of a regular system of transportation and communication between Spain and the colonies. The final section of Part 2 (pp.320-400), Obra pía, medio de remediar la miseria de la gente pobre de España, originally published separately in 1750, is "an influential work on the question of poverty and idleness" that "especially promoted the idea that the State could expect substantial economic benefits by applying the idle poor to useful tasks". - W.J. Callahan, Honor, commerce and industry in 18th-century Spain, p.60. Medina, BHA 494. Palau 373988. Kress Library Cat. B243. GBP 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 499.25 US$ 747.45 \| JP¥ 66034] Book number: 8/096 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.