Sale 2505 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, April 16, 2019

354 353 c   (TRAVEL.) Gómez, Cristobal. Elogia Societatis Iesu Sive Propugnaculum. Engraved illustrated title page. [38], 490, [37] pages plus Approbatio leaf. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, backstrip chipped with worming; moderate toning and foxing to contents. Antwerp: Iacobum Meursium, 1677 [600/900] first edition . Rare text celebrating the Jesuits, with substantial information on the Americas including references to Jesuit missions in Mexico, Paraguay, Brazil, and Peru, as well as the Philippines, Japan, and China. Gomez describes Jesuit universities and gives biographies of important Jesuits. Cristobal Gomez (1610-1680) was a Spanish Jesuit who served as a missionary in Paraguay beginning in 1632; while there he was professor of philosophy and theology at Cordove duTucuman, and served as Provincial in the last four years of his life. DeBacker-Sommervogel III:1552. 354 c   (TRAVEL.) La Condamine, Charles Marie de. Journal duVoyage Fait par Ordre du Roi, a l’Équateur. 2 folding maps, 7 plates, 1 table. [2], xxxvi, 280, xv, [2], 53; [12], 266, x, viii pages. 2 volumes, without the 1754 supplement. 4to, contemporary 1 / 4 morocco, moderate wear; minor soiling and foxing. Paris, 1751 [1,500/2,500] first edition of La Condamine’s account of the important French Geodesic Mission through what are now Peru and Ecuador, measuring the curvature of the earth at the equator. La Condamine, among many other things, made important observations on the cultivation of rubber and the cinchona. He includes a substantial section on the history of the pyramids at Quito. Palau 59002; Sabin 38479, 38483. 355 c   (TRAVEL.) Stevens, Henry; editor. Collection of 6 printings of early Spanish manuscripts by Las Casas, Cortes, and more. [12], [11], [21], [10], [14], [12] pages. 4to, later 1 / 4 morocco; moderate foxing; unopened. London: Chiswick Press for Henry Stevens, 1854 [500/750] Stevens transcribed these 16th-century Spanish manuscripts, wrote English introductions to each, and had them printed in a small black-letter edition by Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press. Memorial de Don Diego Colon . . . el Rey sobre la conversion e consuacio de las gentes de las yndias, 1520 * Carta . . . de las Casas . . . en que suplicia se . . . poner remedio a los agravios de los yndios, 1520 * Carta de . . . las Casas . . . Padres de Guatimala y del Chiapa . . . sobre de que no se vendiesen los repartimientos o encomiendas de los yndios, 1554 * Carta de amonestacio . . . de las Casas . . . tocante a la libertad y jurisdicion ecclica, 1514 * Parescer o determinacio de los senores theologos de Salamanca sobre de que no deben ser baptizados los yndios, 1541 * Carta de Hernando Cortes . . . Carlos Quinto mostrandole su parescer acerca de los repartiminentos de los yndios, 1542. We trace one copy at auction since 1884 (Swann sale, 17 September 2015, lot 387).