Search Results: Authors starting with C from LIBRERIA DE ANTANO

Prontuario juridico y elementos practicos para ejercer el arte de edificar, sin agravio del vecino. Barcelona. Edición de Carlos Sapera. 1782.
8vo; contemporary vellum.
Early work on public health in Spain - only one copy in OCLC in USA.
This work includes dozens of legal norms for construction in Barcelona without disturbing the neighbours. The author covers topics such as the conduction of water, letrines, cemeteries, etc. Chapter VIII is titled, curiously: Whether or not buildings constructed with vantage points to see the secrets of the neighboring house should be allowed. (RF 61). (X88X000018)

Missionary Work Among the Indians in Alta California and the Early Explorers * A Rare Cuban Imprint *
2 volumes. 8vo. [12], 245, [1]; [8], 327, [1] pages.Unmatched contemporary tree calf and 1/2 calf, inked ownership stamps on title page and final leaf of Volume I.
A work on papal indulgences by a former Mexican missionary, written at the convent of San Francisco de la Habana. Near the end of Volume II are several chapters devoted to missionary work among the Indians, including a section titled "De las misiones de la Nueva-California . . . Descripcion de la California" (pages 256-265), which gives a short history of missionaries in Alta California and the early explorers such as Vancouver and La Perouse.
*Palau 40643.

#WorldCat: 6 copies: 3 in CA, 1 CT, 1 IL, 1 PA

One of the Earliest Works on Monetarism in Spain with Annotations in a Contemporary Hand and Three Manuscript
Sketch Maps of Different Parts of the Mediterranean
Folio. Modern vellum boards old style.Woodcut royal arms on title, numerous manuscript annotations in the text in the first part (including miniature sketch maps of Cadiz at B5r, the Nile Delta and Palestine coast at C1r and the Mediterranean at C6r.).
First Edition, and a UNIQUE copy of one of the earliest works on monetarism in Spain, containing material relating to the mines of Spanish America, the importance of sound gold currency, and much of importance on the contemporary economic history of Spain.
"A legal treatise on money which contains a great deal of important information for the economic history of Spain. It was written to defend the plan of Captain Tomás de Cardona to prevent the extraction of gold and silver from the Kingdom and to assign a correct value to the gold and silver of the Indies". (Colmeiro).
*Palau 44950; Alden… Read More

Memoria sobre el problema ¿Por qué motivos ó causas las tercianas se han hecho tan comunes y graves en nuestra España? ¿Con qué medios podrían precaverse y destruirse? Madrid, Imprenta real, 1806.
8vo; fine contemporary marroquin binding.
At the end of the reign of Carlos IV of Spain, the military doctor Antonio Cibat (1771-1811), chair of surgery at the University of Barcelona, ​​published various scientific works on the problem of endemic diseases and yellow fever, which then hit Andalusia.
Denouncing the mismanagement of the epidemic by the authorities and the trade in quinine, which continued to be prescribed for its febrifuge properties, Cibat advocated the adoption of hygiene standards to prevent contagion and the drying up of lagoons and marshes.
# WorldCat: no copies in US Libraries. (RF 1471)

8vo; 52 p.; modern binding.
Instructional work carried out from the author's experience in tobacco cultivation in Cuba. In addition to everything related to the cultivation part, it talks about the drying rooms, the operations in the tobacco house, types of curing. Also, how it is cultivated and handled in the United States and in Brazil.
*Palau 206564.
# WorldCat: one copy in US Libraries (Cleveland).