Search Results: Titles starting with B from LIBRERIA DE ANTANO

FAULAS DE ISOP. Filosop moral preclarissim, y de altres famosos autors. Corregidas de nou, e historiadas ab major claredad, que fins abuy sian vistas. Precedeix la vida de Isop, dividida en capitols... Barcelona. Edición de la Imp. Gregori Matas y de Bodalles. 1842.
12vo. Nicely illustrated with full page engravings.
According to our research, the first edition of the Fables in Catalan had been printed in mid 18th century. RF 286 (X99X000776)
*Not in Palau

Esposicion de los sentimientos de los funcionarios públicos, así nacionales como departamentales y municipales, demás habitantes de la ciudad de Bogotá hecha para ser presentada al Libertador presidente de la República.
[2] 21 p. Small 4to. Loose leaves.
Written at the urging of Vice-President Francisco de Paula Santander (1792-1840), this address to Bolívar was penned by prominent Bogotá lawyer and political leader, Vicente Azuero (1787-1844), President of the High Court of Justice, expresses the collective voice of the Centralist faction of Bogotá's political elites on the eve of Bolívar's return to Bogotá in 1826 from Lima.
Composed "in the name of the most zealous friends of liberty of Colombia," the document exhorts Bolivar to remember his solemn oath to defend and uphold the Constitution of 1821 which established a unitary centralist state with a strong Chief Executive, while denouncing federalists.
Santander himself offers the following carefully crafted comment in a letter to… Read More

Límites. Con 6 aguafuertes originales de Leopoldo Presas
Folio; original wrappers; Copy No. 81/130 on Fabriano paper, with 6 etchings by Leopoldo Presas, signed.
Rare Borgeana plaquette, privately printed by collectors Frank Virasoro and Federico Vogelius for their friends in 1958. Contains 6 poems, all published for the first time in book format; 5 of them had been published a few months before in La Nación newspaper and Sur magazine - the poem Arte Poética is unpublished. (R20F000058) RF 198

Carpentry, Geometry and Clocks
4to; pergamino.

Suplemento o adiciones a el compendio de la carpintería de lo blanco y tratado de alarifes de el maestro Lopez de Arenas. Lo escribe Don Santiago Rodriguez de Villafañe, professor de mathematicas, quien lo dedica al mismo glorioso patriarcha Sr. San Joseph, esposo de la Santissima Virgen, tutelar y patrono de el arte de la carpintería. Sevilla, Manuel de la Puerta, Impressor de la Universidad, 1727.
RARE SPANISH TRACT ON CARPENTRY, SECOND EDITION. Diego López de Arenas, carpenter, builder and "alarife" in seventeenth-century Seville was a master in the art of carpentry. His compendium of carpentry is followed by some notions of geometry because according to the Royal Ordinances of the Kingdom of Seville, the "Alarife has a precise obligation to be wise in geometry" ; a treaty of clocks is also added at the end. The rule of Tartaglia, referred to in the title, consists of an approximate method for the quadrature of the circle.
16 pp.

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