Search Results: Authors starting with O from LIBRERIA DE ANTANO

[Royal Provision of Phillip II, Confirming and Ratifying the Privileges Granted by the Masters of the Order of Santiago to the Village of Corral de Almaguer Toledo] 1572
Manuscript. Small folio. 12 1/4 x 8 1/4". 8 double-sided vellum manuscript leaves originally bound together (now unbound), hand painted and decorated in blue, red and gilt, at various points throughout the text. The first page is hand-painted and decorated along the edge and includes a large decorative initial in multiple colors. Manuscript text in gothic style. Signed "Yo el Rey" on the back of the final leaf, by King Phillip II of Spain in 1572.
ATTRACTIVELY ILLUMINATED EARLY MANUSCRIPT. JUDAICA INTEREST. Our manuscript contains the 4 confirmed provisions originally drafted by Infante Henry (Duke) of Aragon (1421 and 1440), Alonso de Cárdenas (here listed as "Alfoso" [sic], in 1480) and then "The Catholic Kings" (in 1494) all of whom at various times served as "Grand Masters of the Order of Santiago". The provisions were instigated… Read More

Histórica relación del Reyno de Chile y de las missiones y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañía de Iesus a nuestro Señor Iesu Christo Dios Hombre y a la Santissima Virgen y Madre Maria Señora…
4to, 14 plates depicting scenes of Indian life, wild animals and religious activities in Chile + 9 equestrian portraits, each showing one to three of the early conquerors of Chile + 12 portraits of early governors of Chile + 20 woodcuts illustrating Jesuit colleges and missions and early maps and plans + one large folding map. Contemporary vellum
A COMPLETE, UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THE RAREST ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON CHILE. There is an Italian edition printed in the same year, which is common and often seen in the market, but this really first edition in Spanish is of OUTMOST rarity and seldom seen. The work includes a great deal of information on the physical and cultural geography, natural history and Indian ethnology of the country, and on the Jesuit colleges and missions there. The history of the… Read More

Oviedo: The Definitive Edition in Four Volumes - Important Source For the Early History Of Puerto Rico
Four volumes, 12 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches (31 x 22 cm.); with 4 maps + 11 plates, bound in three-quarters marbled calf, cloth sides.

THE DEFINITIVE EDITION OF OVIEDO'S HISTORY which "contains so much material not included in the original Spanish editions of his Natural Hystoria (1526) and his Historia general (1535) that it may be properly [considered] as a new work" (Howes). This work is one of the great eyewitness accounts of the Spanish settlement of the New World and appeared in full for the first time in this edition. Leclerc called it a "publication importante et soignée", and Palau described it as an "edición magnifica en todos conceptos, tanto por el merito histórico y literario como por la presentación nítida y correcta".

IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR THE EARLY HISTORY OF PUERTO RICO: chapter (book) XVI deals EXCLUSIVELY with Puerto Rico, AND OTHER CHAPTERS are referred to Puerto Rico as well.… Read More