Search Results: Titles starting with I from LIBRERIA DE ANTANO

El Museo de ambas Américas.
Polished black morocco paneled in blind, spine titled and decorated in gilt. Subscribers' lists in volumes 1 & 3. Provenance: Bookplate of Jose Maria Andrade (1807-1883), the famous Mexican bibliophile and publisher. FIRST EDITION AND A COMPLETE RUN of all 36 issues of this very early and important Chilean periodical. The year 1842 marked a "before" and an "after" in the intellectual development of Chile. Along with the creation of the University of Chile, one of the most significant milestones of that year was the crystallization of a literary movement that would end up acquiring a foundational character, not only in regard to Creole intellectual output, but also to link it with political discourse. At the head of this project were José Victorino Lastarria and Francisco Bilbao, among other thinkers, who sought to infuse society with the revolutionary ideals of freedom, equality and fraternity, using, above all, the periodical press. The cultural activity in the crucial… Read More

[Spine title:] Libro de los quadernos de navigacion. [Begins:] Quaderno primero que trata de la geometria practica. [Barcelona?] [late 18th century] [circa 1780].
Manuscript, 4to. [21 cms. x 15.5 cms. in binding], writing and diagrams to 247 unnumbered pages. Manuscript written into a contemporary accounts book bound in vellum, a wallet binding with tackets to spine, clasp intact, sums to covers, binding badly eaten away. Contemporary circular MS measuring device on vellum loosely inserted in front.
RARE EARLY SPANISH MANUSCRIPT GUIDE TO GEOMETRY AND NAVIGATION, WITH REFERENCES TO AMERICA. Manuscript guide to geometry and navigation. It has parts on practical geometry, the principles of navigation, and the terrestrial and celestial globes, this last followed by astronomical problems for solving. A particular focus, given much attention, is on making corrections to course. There are also calendrical calculations. In this context, the last year mentioned is 1799, but the manuscript likely predates this,… Read More

Vida y virtudes del capuchino español, el v. siervo de Dios Fr. Francisco de Pamplona ... llamado en el siglo Don Tiburcio de Redin ... Su autor el ... padre Fray... Religioso Capuchino.
8vo; portrait; ("L. F. Leonardo sc.", retrato de Fr. Francisco de Pamplona); 360 p, 12 h. Contemporary vellum.
SECOND EDITION OF THIS MOST ESTEEMED WORK (1st 1685). Francisco de Pamplona (also called Tiburcio de Redín y Cruzat) was a Capuchin lay brother and missionary; b. Pamplona, Spain, Aug. 11, 1597; d. La Guaira, Venezuela, Aug. 31, 1651. He was born Tiburcio de Redin, of a noble family, and first followed a career in the military, holding high offices and distinguishing himself for his skill and courage. In 1637, however, he was converted to a life of penance as a Capuchin and dedicated his efforts to the foreign missions. He joined Bonaventure of Allesano in founding a Capuchin mission in the Congo in 1645. Returning to Europe, he solicited support for the missions in London, Rome, and Madrid. After 1647 he… Read More

First Instructions to the Commissaries of War of the
United Provinces of Río de la Plata
8vo; contemporary calf. Six folded plates, providing details of names of the individuals who belong to the Society and other related topics.
The government of the United Provinces published these regulations in order to create the Corps of Commissaries of War to perform monthly reviews of regular troops and to control the finances and pay salaries. One of the main reasons that let to the creation of this Corps was that, following the British invasions, the military forces in Argentina grew exponentially in order to resist the enemy. At the end of the document, the following names of renowned Argentines such as Sarratea, Chiclana, Rivadavia, and Herrera appear.

# WorldCat: 3 copies in USA (Indiana, Stony, JCB).