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Monumental bibliography concerning Spanish America

PALAU Y DULCET, Antonio. Manual del librero Hispano-Americano. Bibliografía Española e Hispano-Americana desde la invención de la imprenta hasta nuestros tiempos con el valor comercial de los ompresos descritos, ... Segunda edición, corregida y aumentada por el autor.
Barcelona, Librería anticuaria de A. Palau; Oxford, Dolphin Book Company, 1948-1977. 4to (27.5 x 19 cm). 28 volumes. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
With: (2) PALAU CLAVERAS, Augustin. Indice alfabetico de titulos-materias, correcciones, conexiones y adiciones del Manual del librero Hispano Americano.
Empúries, Palacete Palau Dulcet; Oxford, Dolphin Book Company, 1981-1987. 4to (27.5 x 19 cm). 7 volumes. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Full description
€ 3,500
Bibliography & Biography Latin America Middle America South America Spain
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Mysterious biography of the mythical first king of Paraguay,
who had allegedly saved the locals from the oppression of the Jesuits

[PARAGUAY - KING NICOLAS I]. Histoire de Nicolas I. Roy du Paraguai, et Empereur des Mamelus.
Saint Paul [= São Paulo, but the work was likely printed somewhere in Western Europe], 1756. 8vo. With a typographical ornament on the title-page. Contemporary brown paste paper wrappers. 88 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Bibliography & Biography Church History & Missions French Literature Jesuits Latin America South America Spain
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Good copy of a rare entomological bibliography

PERCHERON, A. Bibliographie Entomologique, comprenant l'indication par ordre alphabétique 1. Des ouvrages entomologiques publiés en France et à l'étranger, depuis les temps les plus réculés jusques et y compris l'année 1834; 2. Des monographies et mémoires contenus dans les recueils, journaux et collections académiques françaises et étrangères.
Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1837. 2 volumes bound in 1.. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine with gilt lettering. XII, 326; [4], 376 pp. Full description
€ 325
Bibliography & Biography Insects & Spiders
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Rare first and only edition of the biography of one of the most powerful viceroys Portuguese-India ever had

PEREIRA DE MACEDO, Francisco de Santo Agostinho. Vida del grande d. Lvis de Attayde, tercer Conde de Attogvia, y Virrey de la India dos vezes.
Madrid, Imprenta del Reino, 1633. 4to. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [11] ,[1 blank], 168 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Bibliography & Biography India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Portugal
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Important bibliographical source for the history of Friesland and the first bibliography
exclusively devoted to Dutch authors

PETRI (PETRUS), Suffridus. De scriptoribus Frisiae, decades XVI. Et semis: in quibus non modo peculiares Frisiae, sed & totius Germaniae communes antiquitates plurimae indicantur, & veterum historicorum ac geographorum loci, hactenus non intellecti, explicantur.
Franeker, Jacobus Horreus, 1699. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [88], 498 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Bibliography & Biography Dutch Literature Netherlands
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Highlights of the life and career of the founder and first king of Saudi Arabia: Ibn Sa'ud

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Arabian jubilee.
London, Robert Hale Limited, 1954. 8vo. With a portrait of king 'Abdul-'Aziz Ibn Sa'ud as the frontispiece, 1 map of Arabia in 1950, and 16 double-sided plates. Black cloth with title information in gold on spine. XIV, 280 pp. Full description
€ 400
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Bibliography & Biography Saudi Arabia
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Jesuits in the Americas: in Florida, Peru, Brasil, and other places in Middle and South America

RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de [and Michel d'ESNE DE BETENCOURT (translator)]. La vie du pere Francois de Borja ...
Douai, Baltazar Bellère, 1603. 8vo. With a woodcut "IHS" vignette on the title-page, some woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head-pieces, and a large woodcut tail-piece on p. 480. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties. [1], [1 blank], [22], 480 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Bibliography & Biography Jesuits North America Peru West Indies
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