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News from Portobello of the death of a Peruvian Viceroy, printed in Lima

[NAVARRA Y ROCAFULL, Melchor, Duque de la Palata]. Copia de carta escrita a un cavallero de la ciudad de los Reyes, dandole cuenta de la muerte del Excelentisimo Señor Duque de la Palata, en la ciudad de Portovelo, Viernes Santo 13 de Abril de 1691.
[Lima, 1691]. Folio (29 x 19 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial on the first page. Kept together by a marbled paper strip around the spine. [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Maps, plans, and descriptions of the military defenses of Holguín, Cuba, shortly before Cuban independence

NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 1. Memoria descriptiva.
Holguín, 1 September 1898. 2 documents. Folio. With a double-page manuscript map, 2 full-page manuscript maps, and 4 manuscript plans on tissue paper. Including: IDEM. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 2. Planos.
Holguín, 1 September 1898. Ad 1: Original wrappers, side stiched through 3 holes, with the manuscript title on the front. Ad 2: unbound. [16] pp. Full description
€ 4,950
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Some of the founding documents of the Dutch Republic and memorabilia of the Eighty Years' War

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaaten, gemaackt en geslooten tusschen de Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre ende verscheyde koningen, princen en potentaaten ter andere zyde. Eerste deel.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [between 1742 and 1759]. 4to. With a general title page, followed by an index and 73 treaties, nearly all with their own title page containing the original imprint and a woodcut of the Dutch lion (the arms of the States General) and a few with Van Wouw's printer's device of a snail with the motto "Avec le temps paulatim". Contemporary vellum, straight-sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, with manuscript title on spine. Full description
€ 2,950
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Delicately painted 17th-century initial, attributed to the circle of Portugal's finest miniature artist

[NETO, Estêvao Gonçalves, circle of (attributed)]. [Historiated initial - Capital "G"].
[Viseu?, first quarter of the 17th century]. Frame: ca. 36.5 x 33.5 cm. Tempera on parchment (ca. 20 x 21 cm), heightened with gold. Mounted in a passe-partout (ca. 28.5 x 25.5 cm), framed behind glass in a later gold frame. Full description
€ 8,500
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Vibrant 17th-century illuminated initial, which has been featured in two exhibitions about Portuguese art

[NETO, Estêvao Gonçalves, circle of (attributed)]. [Illuminated initial - Capital "S"].
[Viseu?], 1617. Frame: ca. 39.5 x 38 cm. Tempera and gold leaf on parchment (ca. 33 x 30 cm). Mounted in a passe-partout (ca. 33.5 x 32.5 cm), framed behind glass in a later gold frame. Full description
€ 8,500
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"Codicil" to the Dying wars "Testament"

[NIEROP, Adriaen van or Simon van MIDDELGEEST?]. WAER-MOND, Yemand van (pseudonym). Codicille van de Nederlandsche Oorloghe, waer in sy eenighe Vrienden, Wel-Doenders ende Dienaren, in haer principael Testament van date den tweeden Februarij 1609. vergheten zynde, ... den 12. Martij des selven jaers. Noch een Wellecom-Dicht van het Bestandt. Noch andere ghedichten van bestandighe vrede.
"Franc end al" [= Amsterdam?], "Frederijck de Vrije", [1609]. Small 4to. Poems celebrating the truce with Spain (though attributed to a former opponent of the truce), with the Dutch poems in textura types and Latin marginal notes in roman. Disbound. [12] pp. Full description
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Heated dispute between a Spanish pharmacist and the College of apothecaries

NOVELLA, Cosme. Al rey nuestro señor. Memorial ... Contiene el hecho; en la causa de la preparacion de la colocynthida.
[Zaragoza, 1613]. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut arms of Philip III of Spain on title-page. Loosely inserted in contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [25] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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One of the earliest works on hunting and hawking written in Spanish

NUÑEZ DE AVENDAÑO, Pedro. Aviso de Cazadores y Caça.
Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1593.
With: (2) [bound before ad 1] NUÑEZ DE AVENDAÑO, Pedro. De exequendis mandatis regnum Hispaniae, quae rectoribus civitatum dantur, & hodie continentur in titulo.
Madris, Pedro Madrigal, 1593.
2 works in 1 volume. Folio (27 x 18.5 cm). With the woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, and two decorated woodcut initials. Further with the woodcut coat of arms of Habsburg Spain on the title page of ad 2, numerous decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece at the start of the work, and headpieces made up of typographical ornaments in the first few chapters. Later limp vellum, sewn on 2 vellum tapes laces through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties. [8], "555" [= 553], [1], [2 blank], [40]; 34 pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Highly important work on Portuguese law, written by order of the king

NUNEZ DO LEÃO, Duarte. Leis extravagantes collegidas e relatadas pelo licenciado Duarte Nunez do liam per mandado do muito alto & muito poderoso Rei Dom Sebastiam nosso Senhor.
Including: NUNEZ DO LEÃO, Duarte. Annotacões sobre as ordenacões dos cinquo livros.
Lisbon, Antonio Gonçalvez, 1569.
Folio. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of King Sebastião on the title-page and the divisional title-page of the second work, 6 large historiated woodcut initials, and numerous small decorated woodcut initials.
Later vellum, with the manuscript title in Gothic script on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [4], 218, [16]; 8 ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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