Sale 2517 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 26, 2019

253 253 c   (CHILE.) González de Agueros, Pedro. Descripcion historial de la provincia y archipielago de Chilóe, en le reyno de Chile. Folding map, plate. [8], 318 pages. 4to, later tree calf, minor wear; edges tinted yellow; plate toned, very short tear to map, otherwise minimal wear to contents; small bookplate of bibliographer Joaquin García Icazbalceta on front pastedown. [Madrid], 1791 [2,000/3,000] first edition . A history of Chile’s largest island. The last 65 pages are devoted to an appendix on Spanish colonization of Tahiti and the Caroline Islands. Palau 104963; Sabin 27822. 254 c   (CORTES, HERNAN.) Uriarte, Juan Tomas de. Vita magnificentissi proclarissimi atque numquam satis laudati Ferdinandi de Cortes. [12] manuscript pages. 4to, 7 1 / 2 x 5 1 / 4 inches, in later marbled wrappers; cropped with slight loss of text. Mexico, circa late 18th century [400/600] An essay in Latin on the life of the conquistador Hernán Cortés, apparently unpublished. 255 c   (CUBA.) La Emulacion: Periodico mensual de farmacia, quimica e historia natural medicas y toxicología. 23 issues (1:1-12 and II:1-11 complete) in one volume. 8vo, 1 / 4 sheep, moderate wear, crude repairs; moderate worming, folding table from December 1863 issue worn and detached. Havana, February 1863 to December 1864 [800/1,200] The first Cuban pharmacological magazine, and one of the island’s earliest medical periodicals. Only one run of this pioneering periodical can be traced in OCLC, at the University of Florida, running through 1868; we trace none at auction. Bound between Volumes I and II is a pamphlet by Fernando Paez, “Manual de farmacia practica” (Havana, 1864), possibly incomplete at 8 pages; no examples of this pamphlet appear in OCLC.