Americana, including Manuscripts Lots 349-363
349 [AMERICAS]. BOTURINI BENADUCI, Lorenzo (1702-1755). Idea de una Nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional... Madrid: Juan de Zuñiga, 1746. 2 parts in one volume, 4to (198 x 136 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Boturini. (Worm tracks affecting text with occasional repairs.) Contemporary vellum, (some repairs to spine, hinges reinforced, lacking ties). FIRST EDITION of Boturini’s historiographical proposal on how to write a new history of ancient Mexico drawing on new forms of historical evidence, primarily Nahua vocabularies. Including a catalogue of his collection of Mexican colonial indigenous codices, which was one of the largest collections compiled in the mid-18th century. Alden-Landis 746/27-28; Palau 33786; Pilling 420a; Sabin 6833 & 6834 Property from the Collection of Gaspar Mayagoitia Barragán 349
$1,500 - 2,500
350 [AMERICAS]. GRANADOS Y GÁLVEZ, Joseph Joaquin (1743-1794). Tardes Americanas: Gobierno Gentil y Catolioco: breve y particular noticia de toda la historia Indiana… Mexico: Imprenta Matritense de Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1778. Small 4to (185 x 132 mm). Engraved coat of arms on page of introduction, one engraved plate (of 3, lacking frontispiece and plate to face p.56), woodcut p.56. (Tape repair to title-page.) Later red calf, smooth spine gilt, morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained yellow (upper hinge starting, paper card taped to upper cover, some light soiling). Provenance: Jose Gregorio Hernandez (old bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this historical narrative set as a dialogue between an Otomí and a Spaniard about preHispanic indigenous culture and a critique of the Bourbon Reforms in the viceroyalty of New Spain. “This interesting history of ancient Mexico, written in the form of a dialogue between an Indian and a Spaniard, and divided into seventeen ‘Nights,’ is very little known in Europe, and is very rare in Mexico. On pp. 9094 will be found a fragment of Aztec poetry, written by a poet of the euphonious name Notzahaulcoyotl, and translated into Spanish by the author. One of the most curious subjects treated in this work is that of the Mexican Calendar with the names of the days in Mexican and in Spanish. On pp.141 to 150 are given the Mexican names of the kings of the empire of Tescuco.” (Field, Indian Bibliography, 620). JCB III:2467; Medina 7000; Palau y Dulcet 108426; Sabin 28255. Property from the Collection of Gaspar Mayagoitia Barragán $1,500 - 2,500
351 [AMERICAS]. HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (1549-1625). Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del mar oceano... Madrid: Oficina Real de Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1726-1728-1730.
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8 decades and the Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales bound in 5 volumes, 4to (296 x 202 mm). 9 engraved titles, 14 engraved folding maps. (One engraved title and a few leaves with marginal repairs occasionally affecting borders, a few short marginal tears with old repairs, some minor spotting or browning.) Vol.II: contemporary limp vellum (some minor soiling, lacking ties); Vols.I, III-V modern quarter black calf, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt. Provenance: “JE” (brand on top edges of 2 volumes; Francisco González y Cossío (bookplates). Second Spanish edition of this significant collection of Spanish narratives about the exploration and conquest of the Americas, drawing upon manuscript sources that are no longer extant. A critical work for the study of Spanish colonization in the Americas, preferred in the second edition because it was compiled, amended and enlarged by Andrés González de Barcia with the addition of the “Tabla General de cosas notables” bound at the end of vol.V. “There are copies of this edition dated 1727, 1728, 1729 and 1730, which are all alike except as the date—the work not having been completed till that year—the publishers changing the dates as circumstances suggested” (Sabin). Herrera was royal historiographer to Philip II, III and IV of Spain and his comprehensive compilation was first published in Madrid, 1601-1615. Alden & Landis 733/118; Borba de Moraes I:399-400 (first edition); Hill 805; Palau 114287; Sabin 31546. Property from the Collection of Gaspar Mayagoitia Barragán $5,000 - 7,000
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