ITINERARIO PARA PÁRROCOS DE INDIOS En Que Se Tratan Las Materias mas Particulares Tocantes a Ellos Para su BUENA ADMINISTRACIÓN... Compuesto por... SENOR DON ALONSO DE LA PEÑA MONTENEGRO, Obispo del Obispado de San Francisco de Quito...

(PASTORS' GUIDE for the GOOD ADMINISTRATION of INDIANS... Composed by DON ALONSO DE LA PENA MONTENEGRO, Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco de Quito...)

EN MADRID: En la Oficina de Pedro Marin, 1771. Nueva Edicion, Purgada de Muchisimos Hierros (New Edition, Purged of Numerous Errors). TEXT IN SPANISH.

VELLUM BOUND, limp vellum , five cord spine bands, manuscript title on spine (mostly faded), 8x12 inches (20cm x 30cm), Pagination: [2] blank free endpaper, [32], 612 pages.

CONDITION: The vellum covers are soiled, darkened, rubbed, missing a half-dollar size piece at the upper rear corner, and well creased (as normal for limp vellum); nonetheless the vellum covers remain quite lovely in a Harry Potter Hogwarts' Library way. Internally, the front and rear inner hinges are split but holding with the cord binding; the bottom half of the last two leaves (pages 609/610 and 611/612) is roughly torn off; the rear free endpaper is lacking, and the rear pastedown is mostly lacking; there is chipping to the bottom corner of the first few pages, not affecting text; light foxing and some age spotting here and there throughout; otherwise the inner pages are nice, complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Contents:

LIBRO PRIMERO En que se Trata de la Elección y Canónica Institución del Párroco, y de todas las demás obligaciones que tiene el Doctrinero.

LIBRO SEGUNDO De la Naturaleza y costumbres de los indios.

LIBRO TERCERO En que se Trata de los Sacramentos - del Bautismo, La Confirmación - Del dolor que es parte material del Sacramento de la Penitencia, De la Confesión, Del Confesor, De la Satisfacción Sacramental que es el tercer acto Penitente, Del Inefable Sacramento de la Eucaristía, Del Sacramento de la Extremaunción, Del Sacramento del Orden, Del Sacramento del Matrimonio, De los Grados de Consanguinidad, Afinidad, y Cognación Espiritual y Dispensación en ellos.

LIBRO CUARTO De los Preceptos de la Iglesia y de la Ley Natural que deben Guardar los Indios .

LIBRO QUINTO En que se Trata de los Privilegios que tienen los Señores Arzobispos y Obispos, los Regulares, y los Indios en estas partes. Y de los Visitadores y modo como se han de portar en las visitas de los Indios y sus Doctrineros. De la conciencia errónea muy ordinaria en los Indios, y de algunas cuestiones misceláneas.

The Original Limp Vellum Binding makes this an especially attractive copy of this rare book.

VIAGGI DALLA CHINA ALLA COSTA NORD-OVEST D'AMERICA FATTI NEGLI ANNI 1788 e 1789 - DAL CAPITANO G. MEARES.

(TRAVELS FROM CHINA TO THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA MADE IN THE YEARS 1788 and 1789 - BY CAPTAIN G. MEARES.)

Prima Traduzione Italiana. (First Italian Edition.)

Published by Giovacchino Pagani, Firenze (Florence), MDCCXCVI (1796). First Italian, one of two editions published in the same year (the other was published in Naples).

Originally published in England in 1790, then France in 1794. This First Italian Edition had the ENGRAVINGS REDONE by a FLORENTINE ARTIST, and the engraved plates were made a part of the volumes. SCARCE with the GORGEOUS FLORENTINE PLATES.

This auction is for THREE of FOUR VOLUMES - Volumes II, III and IV. LACKING VOLUME I.

Original Wrappers, paper title labels on spines, 5x7.5 inches. TEXT in ITALIAN.

Pagination:

Volume II : XV + 212 pages. ILLUSTRATED WITH 7 PLATES, including 1 that folds-open. The plates are each printed on their own unnumbered leaf.

Volume III : X + 238 pages. ILLUSTRATED WITH 1 FOLD-OPEN PLATE.

Volume IV : [4] + VIII + 276 pages. ILLUSTRATED WITH 9 PLATES, including 2 that fold-open.

THE PAGES AND PLATES HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY COLLATED. THESE BOOKS ARE COMPLETE, ALL PLATES ARE PRESENT AND IN THEIR PROPER ORDER. THERE ARE 17 PLATES IN TOTAL IN THESE THREE VOLUMES.

There is a 1.5x3.5 inch label pasted onto the inside front cover of Volume II that reads: "MEARES, JOHN. Viaggi dalla China... Firenzi, 1796. Vols. 2-4 only. Lacks Vol. 1. 1st ed. In Italian. Orig. wraps."

Condition: The original wrappers on these three volumes are mostly chipped off at the spine, exposing the signatures beneath, have chips and tears at the edges, a few holes, creases, smudges, general aging and wear, etc; the front wrapper and front free endpaper of Volume IV are disbound (i.e. present but laid-on loosely); the front wrapper of Volume IV also has its top margin and bottom front corners torn away (i.e. it is missing large pieces). Internally, there are corner creases, some corner tears, some spotting here and there, a few pages with light edge stains, a bit of foxing here and there, some page toning, splits between some signatures (always still holding well with the sewn binding); but overall the inner pages are incredibly well-kept, still complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. THE PLATES ARE GORGEOUS.

A WONDERFUL SET OF 3 (of 4) VOLUMES of this SCARCE WORK, COMPLETE and in ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.

DICCIONARIO GEOGRAPHICO DAS PROVINCIAS E POSSESSÕES PORTUGUEZAS NO ULTRAMAR.

Em que se descrevem as ilhas, e pontos continentaes que actualmente possue a corôa portugueza, e se dão muitas outras noticias dos habitantes, sua historia, costumes, religiões e commercio. Precedido de uma introducção geographico, politico, estatistico, historica de Portugal. Por Joze Maria de Souza Monteiro, Cavalleiro da Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, e Secretario Geral Honorario da Provincia de Cabo-Verde, etc. etc.

TEXT ENTIRELY IN PORTUGUESE.

(GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF PORTUGUESE OVERSEAS PROVINCES AND POSSESSIONS.

In which the islands and continental places that the Portuguese Crown currently possesses are described, including information about the inhabitants, their history, customs, religions and commerce. Preceded by a geographical, political, statistical and historical introduction of Portugal. By Jose Maria de Souza Monteiro, Knight of the Order of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, and Honorary General Secretary of the Province of Cabo-Verde, etc. etc.)

Published by Typographia Lisbonense, Lisboa (Lisbon,Portugal), 1850.

Hardcovers, leather covered spine and marbled paper covered boards, spine titled and decorated in gilt, 5.5x8 inches 14x20 cm), 539 + [4] pages. Small Errata at the end of the final page of text.

GOOD condition: The covers are worn through at the corners and edges, worn at the spine ends, and have some scrapes, but remain sturdy and attractive. Internally, the pages are lightly used, still tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, nice copy.

VOM GOLDNEN HORN ZU DEN QUELLEN DES EUPHRAT - Reisebriefe, Tagebuchblätter und Studien über die Asiatische Türkei und die Anatolische Bahn, von DR. EDMUND NAUMANN. (FROM THE GOLDEN HORN TO THE SOURCE OF EUPHRATES - Travel Correspondence, Diaries and Studies of ASIAN TURKEY and the ANATOLIAN TRAIN, by DR. EDMUND NAUMANN). Verlag von R. OLDENBOURG, 1893, MÜNCHEN und LEIPZIG, Germany. Hardcover book, cloth covered boards, illustration on front cover, 8.5" x 11.5", XV + 494 pages. TEXT IN GERMAN. Includes 140 mostly b&w in-text ILLUSTRATIONS, plus a FOLD-OPEN, COLOR MAP at the rear. An account of a six month journey through Anatolia / Asian Turkey, from Constantinople to Angora, Kharput, Diarbekir, Erzerum and Trapezunt. As a geologist who had already accomplished important work in Japan, Naumann was asked to undertake a reconnaissance of the land through which the Anatolia Railway was to run. GOOD MINUS condition, the spine covering is splitting along both the front and rear folds, the front edge of the rear cover is worn / frayed / scraped through for several inches, the front cover illustration is rubbed, the front and rear boards have some scrapes, and the cover corners are bumped, nonetheless the covers are original and still rather sturdy; internally, there is the signature of "Paul & Marthe Henge (or Henze?)" and the date "9 April 1958" on the front free endpaper, the rear hinge is cracked but holding, the pages are lightly toned, especially at the margins, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked, and the fold-open map is solid, bright and clear. A complete, original, worn but still presentable copy of this early exploration of ANATOLIA TURKEY.

THE LOG OF THE SNARK, by CHARMIAN LONDON (wife of JACK LONDON).

NEW YORK: the Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. In professionally rebound covers.

FULL PAGE INSCRIPTION by CHARMIAN LONDON to MARIAN (CUNHA, nee STERLING), sister of the poet GEORGE STERLING, JACK LONDON'S CLOSE FRIEND.

"Here it is at last / my happy, only, book / and who should have a / copy more than you / who knew me so long before the Snark, and have / known me so long after- / word - Jack and me! / With all best remembrances / Affectionately yours, / Charmian / Honolulu, T. H. / March 22, 1916".

Note that the inscription, dated March 22, 1916, was written while Jack London was still alive, dying just eight months later on Nov. 22, 1916. Also note that Charmian wrote: "Jack and me!". Both Jack and Charmian were close friends of George Sterling and, by association, Sterling's sister Marian (Sterling) Cunha.

Provenance: COPY OF CECILY CUNHA, daughter of MARIAN STERLING CUNHA, with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Likely rebound by Cecily Cunha in the 1960s or 1970s after the book was passed down from her mother.

Hardcover Book, professionally and attractively rebound in brown pebbled cloth covered boards, 4 raised spine bands, gilt titling to the spine, 5.5x7.5 inches, 487 pages plus 5 pages of Publisher's ads at the rear. Illustrated with 20 photographic plates, including the frontispiece photo.

VERY GOOD condition, the rebound covers are FINE, the inner pages are lightly age toned, the title page has two small pieces of the frontispiece photo attached to it that apparently were pulled by the title page from the frontispiece at some point, there is some light foxing on the pages facing the plates, the plates have some wear to their edges as normal, a result of overhanging the text block just a bit; the plate facing page 250 has more substantial edgewear than the others, including some closed tears, but not affecting the images; otherwise tight, bright, clean and clear. A solid, attractive, very presentable copy.

With the inscription and the association to George Sterling, the Sterling Family, the Cunha family, Hawaii, Swimming, Surfing, and the Pacific Ocean that Jack London so loved, this book is a UNIQUE TREASURE.

About CHARMIAN LONDON (from Wikipedia):

******Charmian Kittredge London, b.1871 d.1955, was Jack London's second wife. He divorced Bess Maddern London in 1904 and married Charmian Kittredge the next year. Biographer Russ Kingman called Charmian "Jack's soulmate, always at his side, and a perfect match."******

About GEORGE STERLING, brother of MARIAN STERLING CUNHA (from Wikipedia and The Poetry Foundation website):

******George Sterling, b.1869 d.1926, was a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. In 1905 Sterling moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he established a colony for like minded Bohemian writers. Despite his marriages and numerous affairs, Sterling was closest to Jack London and many consider Sterling London's best friend.******

About MARIAN STERLING and CLARENCE CUNHA (from The San Francisco Call, Sunday, August 26, 1906, page 38):

******MISS MARIAN STERLING and CLARENCE C. CUNHA were married this morning at 8 o'clock in St. Francis de Sales Church...Cunha is the son of a wealthy sugar planter of the Sandwich Islands...His bride is a SISTER of GEORGE STERLING, the poet...******

About CECILY CUNHA (from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 05 Jan 1979, page 37):

******CECILY A. CUNHA, 69, a famed swimmer. She moved to Hawaii at age 2 with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. (Marian) Clarence Cunha. As a teen age swimming champion she held the national junior title for the mile, and won the 440 and 880 yard Pacific Coast championships for women...She was also a distance swimmer in the Hawaiian Outrigger club, and among the early women surfers at Waikiki.******

MIXED BLISS IN MELANESIA, by R. REYNELL BELLAMY. Copy of THE EARL OF BELMORE, with his Signature "The Earl of Belmore" and his handwritten date "July 7th / 34" at the top of the front free endpaper. Published by John Long, Limited, LONDON, 1934. First Edition, as indicated by the date 1934 on the title page, with no indication of additional printings on the copyright page. Hardcover book, maroon cloth covered boards, gilt design on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine, 6.5" x 9", 286 pages. Contains 29 b&w illustrations, consisting of a frontispiece photo, 15 photographic plates (most with 2 photos per page), and a map at the rear. VERY GOOD condition. spine is lightly sunned, cover corner tips and spine ends show a bit of wear, there is a bb-size indent to the top edge of the front cover, there is some offsetting to the half title page (the Earl of Belmore's signature and date on the front free endpaper have nicely offset in white on to the half title page too), there is a bit of foxing to the page edges and to the first and last few pages. Overall just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked. MIXED BLISS IN MELANESIA is considered by some to be one of the best travel books ever written. It has become SCARCE, much more so than so than the other book by Bellamy titled The Real South Seas. I could not find a single copy for sale online, and it has been forever since I have seen another copy. Wonderful SCARCE first edition, with the nice association to THE EARL OF BELMORE.

CAPRAROLA (VITERBO) : Lazio 1. Volume One of the Historic Atlases of Italy created under the Direction of Enrico GUIDONI and Giulia PETRUCCI. Published by Multigrafica Editrice, Roma (Rome), Italia (Italy), 1986. LARGE FORMAT ATLAS, softcovers, 12x16 inches, 56 pages plus an Index at the end. TEXT mainly in ITALIAN, with some French and English as well. Beautifully ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with vintage photographs, maps, and drawings. Condition: The covers are

sunned especially at the spine and margins as is fairly normal for this atlas (please see photo), the upper corner of the covers and inner pages is creased / bent, otherwise a solid copy with inner pages that are nice, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Caprarola is a town and comune in the province of Viterbo, in the Lazio region of central Italy. The village is situated in a range of volcanic hills known as the Cimini Mounts.

CHINESE VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE - LIUKENG VILLAGE / LIUKENGCUN Richly Illustrated Hardcover Book in Dustjacket. TITLE: Zhongguo Xiangtu Jianzhu: Liukengcun. AUTHOR: Zhihua Chen, et al. Published by Chongqing Publishing House, 2001. Text in Simplified Chinese.

ISBN 10: 7536644698. ISBN 13: 9787536644694. DESCRIPTION: This volume surveys the architecture of the LIUKENG VILLAGE / LIUKENG CUN. Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 8.5x11.5", 159 pages. Illustrations on almost every page. An invaluable architectural reference to this early Chinese village. Condition: GOOD book, the covers have some rubs to the black paper, leaving it a bit white in some areas; there is some wear / bumps to the spine ends and to the covers' edges; internally very nice, still tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a VERY GOOD dustjacket with some light edge and spine-end wear. Note: This Book was published as part of a 4 Volume Set, with each volume focused on a different area. Each volume is almost always sold individually, as each stands on its own. Sometimes a title makes it seem like a 4 Volume Set is being offered, but read the description closely and you will find that it is almost invariably a Single Volume of the 4 Volume Set.

CHINESE VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE - ZHUGE VILLAGE / ZHUGECUN Richly Illustrated Hardcover Book in Dustjacket. TITLE: Zhongguo Xiangtu Jianzhu: Zhugecun. AUTHOR: Zhihua Chen, et al. Published by Chongqing Publishing House, 1999. Text in Simplified Chinese.

ISBN-10: 7-5366-4469-8 / 7536644698. ISBN-13: 978-7-5366-4469-4 / 9787536644694 DESCRIPTION: This volume surveys the architecture of the Zhuge Village / Zhugecun. Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 8.5x11.5", 174 pages. Illustrations on almost every page. An invaluable architectural reference to this early Chinese village. Condition: GOOD PLUS book, the covers have some wear / bumps to the spine ends, corner tips, and edges; there is some light yellow spotting to the title page, otherwise just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a VERY GOOD dustjacket with some light edge and spine-end wear. Note: This Book was published as part of a 4 Volume Set, with each volume focused on a different area. Each volume is almost always sold individually, as each stands on its own. Sometimes a title makes it seem like a 4 Volume Set is being offered, but read the description closely and you will find that it is almost invariably a Single Volume of the 4 Volume Set.

COASTAL STUDY OF SOUTHWEST MEXICO, Two Volumes, Part I and II, by Donald D. Brand, assisted by Pablo Guzman-Rivas and Alfonso Gonzalez-Perez. "Report on an investigation carried out...between the University of Texas and the Office of Naval Research, U.S. Department of the Navy."

TWO VOLUMES + FOLD OPEN MAPS. Published by the Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1958 and 1959. (Part I was first published in 1957, but this substantially corrected edition was published in 1959, though the title page still states 1957.)

Two Hardcover Books, black cloth covered boards with silver titling to the spines, 8.5x11 inches.

Part I: xii + 140 pages + 14 photographic plates following page 126, plus 3 fold open maps and 8 fold open charts in a folder attached to the inside rear cover. Pages printed on one side only.

Part II: vii + 279 pages of text + 170 pages of photographic plates.+ 28 fold open maps and 3 fold open plates in a folder attached to the inside rear cover. Pages printed on one side only.

The main text is in English, but includes some original Spanish texts in their original Spanish, as well as selected English translations from various travel logs of explorers along the Mexican coast during the years 1527-1791.

GOOD Condition: The bindings of both volumes have some shelf and edge wear but remain solid and are doing their job well, internally, Volume I has ink stamps stating: "Department of Geography / The University of Texas / Austin 12, Texas" on the blank endpapers, title page, and the folder at the rear (these are stamps of the department that produced and published the book and are not ex-lib stamps) otherwise the pages of both volumes are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The folder at the rear of Volume II that holds many folding maps is creased along the edge where it overhangs the book's text block. All the fold open maps and charts are present and are in VERY GOOD condition.

A comprehensive study of the Southwest Coast of Mexico with an abundance of maps and photographic plates.

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DICIONÁRIO TOPOGRÁFICO, HISTÓRICO, DESCRITIVO da COMARCA do ALTO-AMAZONAS, por Lourenço da Silva Araújo e Amazonas, Capitão Tenente da Armada.

(DICTIONARY TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL and DESCRIPTIVE of the UPPER AMAZON REGION of PORTUGAL'S COLONY (da Comarca), by Lourenço da Silva Araújo e Amazonas, Captain of the Brazilian Navy.

Brazilian book with Portuguese text. Published in Manaus, Brazil, 1984. First volume in the Coleção Hiléia Amazônica (Hiléia Amazonica Collection). Facsimile reprint of the edition originally published in 1852.

Softcovers, 5.5x8.5 inches (14x21.5 cm), 208 pages plus an Errata page plus a fold open table at the rear.

GOOD condition: the covers have some creased corners and the spine is creased and has wear at its ends, internally lightly used and still bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

About the author Lourenço da Silva Araújo Amazonas (from Wikipedia):

******Lourenço da Silva Araújo Amazonas, b.1803 d.1864, was an officer in the Brazilian Navy, ethnographer, and writer of the first novel on the Amazon based on real events.

He did his primary studies in his native province of Bahia and then in Rio de Janeiro, then went on to the navy where he reached the rank of captain. He spent a long time in the Amazon, having studied the Amazon River and its tributaries.

He was awarded the Imperial Order of Avis and Imperial Order of the Rose He was a partner at the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute.******

EARLY CHARTS OF NEW ZEALAND 1542-1851, by Peter Bromley Maling.

FINE PRINTING, LARGE FORMAT, LIMITED EDITION. This is copy 21 of only 500 copies, as stated in the limitation statement at the bottom of the last page.

Contains 59 PLATES of MAPS, CHARTS and DIAGRAMS of NEW ZEALAND and the surrounding area (e.g. Antarctica), as seen by explorers from the 16th to 19th century. The maps are amazing.

Large Format Book in Slipcase, 11x15.5 inches, 136 pages including the 59 plates of maps. Laid in is the original prospectus, a large single-fold sheet to make 4 pages, and a facsimile 1798 color map of New Zealand.

Published by A. H. and A. W. REED, Wellington, Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, 1969.

Nice New Zealand Association. Copy of H. Gary Tonks, with his name and address written in the upper corner of the title page "H.G. Tonks / Mataitai / Wellington / Oct 1969". H. Gary Tonks has written a number of books about New Zealand, Wellington, and the Tonks family. The Tonks were an important part of the early development of Wellington, New Zealand.

Condition:

NEAR FINE book, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A beautiful copy. In a GOOD slipcase that is scraped at the spine, and has some rubs and light soiling, but is solid and doing its job well. A lovely copy of this rare book and its slipcase.

The laid in Prospectus has been folded horizontally, is foxed at the margins and has coffee cup ring stains on its back panel. The laid-in map has a light stain to its upper left margin. They are not often found with the book.

Only 500 copies of this book were produced. This is a lovely early copy, #21, with a nice association to the Tonks of Wellington, New Zealand.

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