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Principal work of 18th-century dance in Spain

FERRIOL Y BOXEREAUX, D. Bartolome. Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar: provechoso divertimiento de los que gustan tocar instrumentos. Y politicas advertencias a todo genero de personas. Adornado con varias laminas.
Capoa, Joseph Testore, 1745. Small 8vo (14×10 cm). With 35 woodcuts in text (including many full-page), 7 folding leaves with woodcut music notation and letterpress text, and some letterpress text set along curves. Many of the full-page woodcuts and some on the folding leaves also include dance notation. Mid 19th-century gold-tooled green calf, with the emblematic device of the "Bibliotheca de Salvá" and initials VSP (=Vicente Salvá y Pérez) on each board. [20], 302 pp. Full description
€ 16,500
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Agricultural sketch of rural New York State, a shipwreck and a journey along the Azores

FOWLER, John. Journal of a tour in the state of New York, in the year 1830; with remarks on agriculture in those parts most eligible for settlers: and return to England by the Western Islands, in consequence of shipwreck in the Robert Fulton.
London, Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot (colophon: Liverpool, printed by E. Smith and co), 1831. 8vo. Modern half calf, marbled sides, title in gold on spine. [2], V, [1], 7-333, [1 blank] pp. Full description
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The first English edition of a famous biography of the fourth Portuguese viceroy of India

FREIRE DE ANDRADE, Jacinto and Peter WYCHE (translator). The life of Dom John de Castro, the fourth Vice-Roy of India. Wherein are seen the Portuguese's voyages to the East-Indies; their discoveries and conquests there; the form of government, commerce, and discipline of warr[!] in the East, and the topography of all India and China. Containing also a particular relation of the most famous siege of Dio, with a map to illustrate it.
London, Henry Herringman, 1664. Folio. With a full-page engraved portrait of D. João de Castro, the fourth viceroy of India as a frontispiece, signed "W. Faithorne sculp.", one full-page engraved illustration of the shrine of St. Thomas in Meliapor - including its inscriptions in Sanskrit - which already existed at the time of the Portuguese arrival in India, and one double page engraved map (view) of Diu and its fortress. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. [1], [1 blank], [18], 272, [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Spanish pioneer of the use of the chronometer in navigation and mapping

GALIANO, Dionisio Alcalá. Memoria sobre las observaciones de latitud y longitud en el mar.
[Madrid], widow of Joaquin Ibarra, 1796. Narrow 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut crowned cypher monogram (of a Spanish Duke?) on the title-page and 7 folding leaves containing 13 numbered letterpress tables. Early 19th-century gold-tooled tree calf. [2], 87, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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Very rare Mallorca imprint

GARCIA, Diego S.J. Sermon funebre en las exequias de la serenissima Señora D. Mariana de Austria Reyna Madre del Rey N. Señor Carlos II. Rey de las Españas. Que celebrò la nobilissima, y fidelissima ciudad de Mallorca en su Iglesia Catadral á 28. de Noviembre de 1696.
Palma de Mallorca, Miguel Capo, 1697. 4to. With the title in an ornamental frame built up from typographic ornaments (a fleur-de-lis and Vervliet vine leaf 207), three woodcut initials and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern marbled boards. [12], 26 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Very rare edition of an influential Portuguese trading manual

GARRIDO, João Antonio. Taboada curiosa, novamente reformada, e augmentada ...
Lisbon, Domingos Rodrigues, 1747. 4to. With the engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Alexandre Metello de Sousa Menezes at the start of the dedicationon, 4 woodcut decorated initials, a woodcut headpiece at the start of each chapter, a headpiece made up of typographical ornaments at the start of the prologue, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, red spotted edges. [18], 182 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Wonderful album of 89 early photographs of the most important cultural monuments from the El-Andalus period

GARZÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Rafael. [Photography - Spain]. Toledo, Córdoba, Granada.
1890. Large oblong album (32 x 40 cm). 89 original photographs, mostly 20 x 26 cm. Half blind-tooled greenish brown calf and grey/green net grained cloth over boards, with the title in gold on the front board, red edges and decorated endpapers. [52] ll. interleaved with tissue paper. Full description
€ 28,000
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Affirming the rights of Emperor Charles V to the Duchy of Gelre and the County of Zutphen

[GELDERLAND]. Het bescheet vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uutgegheven inden Rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche.
Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, [1541]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Charles V on title-page. 19th-century half calf, brown decorated paper sides. [64] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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A general in the Spanish army on the battles and sieges in Flanders 1601-1609,
during the Dutch war for independence, with 29 folding maps and plans

GIUSTINIANO, Pompeo. Delle guerre di Flandra libri VI. ... Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini ...
Antwerp, J. Trognesio, 1609. 4to. With engraved architectural title-page and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications. White sheepskin (ca. 1700 or possibly later). [4], 329, [1 blank], [15], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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First and only edition of the only 18th-century Portuguese publication exclusively dedicated
to the basso continuo: a popular style of accompaniment in baroque music

GOMES DA SILVA, Alberto José. Regras de acompanhar para cravo, ou orgaõ, e ainde tambem para qualquer outro instrumento de vozes, reduzidas a breve methodo, e fácil percepçaõ.
Lisbon, Francisco Luís Ameno, 1758. 4to (21 x 15 cm). With 12 pages of engraved music printed from 12 copper plates on both sides of 6 inserted leaves (mostly polyphonic music with 4 double staves - G and F clef - per page). Further with a full-page engraved dial showing the 12 intervals in all major and minor keys, including diminished and augmented intervals (lacking the inner rotating dial with the twelve notes: photocopy supplied), a woodcut ornament on the title-page, 2 woodcut decorated initials (from 2 different series) and 2 woodcut head pieces. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco. [8], “39” [= 47] [pp. 45-47 numbered as 37-39], [1 blank], [2], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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