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"Pois todo elle deseja ansiosamente derramar até a última gota de sangue"

BENEDICT XIV (Pope), CLEMENT XIII (Pope), King JOSÉ I of Portugal. Collecção dos breves Pontificios e leys regias, que forao expedidos, e publicadas desde o anno de 1741, sobre a liberdade das pessoas, bens e commercio dos Indios do Brasil ...
[Lisbon], Secretaria de estado, [1759]. Folio (21.3 x 30.5 cm). With al large woodcut vignette showing the Portuguese coat of arms on the title page (and on one of the divisional title pages), and with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. [2], 4, [4], 12, 4, [2], 34, 8, 7, [1 blank], 8, 6, 7, [1 blank], 12, [16], 27, [25], 32, 48, 6, 6 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Brazil Jesuits Latin America Law & Politics Portugal South America
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Only recorded copy of the edict that ordered the dissolution of the Mexican Congress in 1822

[BROADSIDE - MEXICO]. [Drop title:] D. Jose Antonio de Andrade, Baldomar, Herrera y Lopez de Salces, Mariscal de Campo de los Ejércitos Imperiales, condecorado con la Cruz y Placa de S. Hermenegildo, Capitan General, y Gefe Político Superior de esta Provincia.
[Mexico, 31 October 1822]. Ca. 43.5 x 30.7 cm. The work is folded in half, and kept in a clear plastic cover. [1] l. Full description
€ 3,800
Broadsides & Pamphlets Latin America Law & Politics Mexico
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Rare Dutch translation of a work on Spanish America, with 4 maps

CAMPBELL, John. De tegenwoordige staat der volken van het Spaansche ryk in Amerika, met een byzonder verhaal, van den koophandel uit Oud-Spanje, met de galjoenen, flota, &c.; en van den verboden handel der Hollanders, Engelschen, Franschen, Deenen en Portugezen, in de West-Indiën.
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [ca. 1745 or ca. 1748]. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, showing the city and harbours of Veracruz, Havana, Portobelo and Cartagena. Contemporary red half sheepskin (roan). [8], 328 pp. Full description
€ 1,200
Argentina Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Chile City Plans, Topography & Views Economic History & Trade Latin America Mexico Middle America North America South America USA - United States of America
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Columbus or Vespucci: who discovered America?

CANOVAI, Père Stanislao. Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci che ha riportato il premio della nobile Accademia Etrusca di Cortona nel dì 15. Ottobre dell'anno 1788. Con una dissertazione giustificativa di questo celebre navigatore, del P. Stanislao Canovai. Terza editione. Con illustrazioni ed aggiunte, e con una seconda dissertazione sulle vicende delle longitudini geografische.
[Modena], 1790. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and 3 decorated woodcut initials (2 different series). Contemporary limp grey boards. XVII, 39, [1 blank]; 55, [1 blank]; 64, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Bibliography & Biography Latin America Middle America Navigation North America South America Travel & Voyages South America
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"A bouquet of poetic flowers" for the newly crowned Emperor of the First Mexican Empire (1822-1823)

EL RUSTICO ANFRISO [= Mariano BARAZÁBAL?]. Ramilletito alegorico de flores poeticas que de su simple huertecillo ofrece á nuestro amado Emperador, en el dia fausto de su coronacion, el rústico Anfriso.
[Mexico City], Mexico, Imprenta Imperial del Señor Valdés [= Alejandro Valdés y Téllez Girón], 1822. 22 x 16.2 cm. Marbled paper wrappers. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Latin America Law & Politics Literature Mexico
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Rare follow-up to a curious account of the daily life of a French salesman in South America

GENDRIN, Victor-Athanase. Récits historiques, exacts et sincères, des sept voyages par mer & par terre. Faits au Brésil, au Cap-Horn, au Chili, aux Cordillères des Andes, à Mendoza, dans le Désert et à Buénos-Ayres ... Extrait de la publication de 1856.
Versailles, Gendrin (colophon: imprimerie Cerf), 1860. 8vo. With lithographed portrait of the author as frontispiece, 36 (32 numbered followed by 4 unnumbered) pages with lithographed reproductions of letters, and 9 lithographed plates. Contemporary cloth. 24, [4], 32, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,450
Brazil Economic History & Trade Latin America South America Travel & Voyages South America
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Order of the day given by the Commander of the Havana Naval Station
to the Spanish soldiers and sailors for recovering Mexico

LABORDE Y NAVARRO, Ángel. Orden del dia dada por el Señor Comandante general del Apostadero de Marina de la Habana.
[Havana], Imprenta de Boloña, [1829]. Folio (ca. 30.5 x 21 cm). Broadside with 16 lines of Spanish text set in a decorative woodcut border with a large woodcut at top depicting an anchor and the flag of Spain (ca. 6.5 x 6.5 cm). [1] l. Full description
€ 2,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Caribbean Islands Latin America Mexico Military History (19th Century) Naval History
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Enforcing a new immigration policy in one of the provinces of the newly independent Kingdom of Brazil

[MANUSCRIPT - BRAZILIAN INDEPENDENCE - José Bonifácio de ANDRADA E SILVA]. [Manuscript document relating to a decree specifying the conditions under which Portuguese subjects may be admitted to the newly independent Kingdom of Brazil, signed by José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva].
Rio de Janeiro, 21 January 1823. 25 x 20.2 cm. Portuguese manuscript on watermarked paper "J Green 1820", written in a neat cursive in brown ink by two hands: page one signed by José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva in Rio de Janeiro on 21 January 1823 and page two signed at the Palacio do Governo on 18 February 1823. Possibly disbound. [2], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Brazil Latin America Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents South America
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An extremely rare piece of Brazilian medical history

MOUTINHO DOS SANTOS, Joaquim. Guia medica para prevenir, e tratar o cholera-morbo offerecida ao provedor, e irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia.
Santos, Typographia commercial de G. Delius, 1855. With the title on the front wrapper set within a decorative frame and the front wrapper and the title page show the same decorative device, including medical instruments, books, the profile of a head with a name(?) in Greek letters. Original publisher's green wrappers. 20 pp. Full description
€ 2,750
Brazil Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century)
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