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Catalogue
83
The Americas
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136.
VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA (1539-1616). Primera [-Segunda] Parte
de los Comentarios Reales, que tratan Del origen de los Incas, reyes
que fueron del Perú, de su idolatría, leyes y gobierno,
en paz y en guerra, de sus vidas y conquistas, y de todo lo que
sue aquel imperio y su república antes que los españoles
pasáran á él. Escritos Por El Inca Garcilaso
de la Vega, natural de Cozco, y capitan de S.M. Nueva Edicion. Madrid,
Imprenta de los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela, calle
del Amor de Dios, núm. 14, 1829. Four volumes. $700
16mo; pp. xviii, 549 [1] (blank); xvi, [2] (blank), 686; xv, [1],
554; xii, 386. Quarter calf over mottled paper boards; marbled endpapers;
gilt spines; first volume: some light water-staining in top margin;
some age browning; small perforation in top margin of one leaf,
with partial loss of two letters; chipping of gilt at heel of spine;
second volume: spine chipped in places; third volume: some age-browning,
tear on one leaf, loss of one letter; fourth volume, little age-browning;
tear at margin of one leaf, no loss. Corners worn on all volumes;
some pages misnumbered. Wanting the folded plate and folded table
in Segunda Parte (Libro Tercero-Libro Quinto), mentioned by Sabin.
Sabin 98758; Rebiun; BNE; BL. Garcilaso de la Vega was the son of
an Inca princess and Spanish military captain who learned to speak
Quechua and Spanish at an early age. He travelled to Spain in 1560
and remained there, writing La Florida del Inca (1605) and then
this work. Comentarios Reales was first published in Lisbon in 1609
(Part I), with the colophon date 1608; Part II was first printed
at Cordova in 1616. The popular work about Inca life and the Spanish
conquest of Peru was printed many times, with an English edition
appearing in 1688. The four volumes in this Spanish edition are
Tomes II-V of the nine-volume series Conquista de América.
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A Fine Work by the Grabhorn Press
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137. [VESPUCCI, AMERIGO]. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci
Describing His Four Voyages to the New World 1497-1504. San Francisco,
the Book Club of California, 1926. First edition thus. No. 75 of
250 copies printed. $500
Small folio; ff. 28, including all initial and final blanks; title
vignette hand-coloured in outline; introduction by Oscar Lewis;
map, illustrations and decorative initials by Valenti Angelo; full
vellum, warped as usual; totally uncut, and with the four-page propectus
laid in. Except for the warping of the boards, a fine clean copy.
Magee, Biblio. of the Grabhorn Press, 85: "It is unfortunate
that the vellum, which was bought at a local tannery, was improperly
seasoned, and some of the bindings have buckled." A lovely
work which reprints Vespucci's accounts of his travels and voyages
in the New World - Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, etc.
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138.
WEST-BAFFIN ESKIMO CO-OPERATIVE. Dorset 79: The Twentieth
Annual Cape Dorset Graphics Collection. Toronto, M.F. Feheley, 1979.
SOLD
Folio; pp. 81, [1]; numerous colour, black and white photos of prints,
portraits of the artists. Brown publisher's cloth; gilt spine.Text
in English and French. In excellent condition.
TPL. Annual publication, appears under various titles. "The
best-guarded secret of the Inuit artist is the rare ability to give
swift visible existence to their inner thoughts. These images are
most often gleaned from their ancient hunting world, but sometimes
they emerge from last night's dreams. The miracle ... is the bold
assurance with which Inuit artists capture these age-old myths or
fleeting fantasies and so confidently transfer them onto stone."
- James Houston, Introduction, p. 8.
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