Sale 2533 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, March 10, 2020

365 366 365 c   (PERU.) León Pinelo, Antonio de. Vida del . . . Toribio Alfonso Mogrovejo, Arcobispo de la Ciudad de los Reyes Lima. Engraved title page. [38 of 44], 421 pages. 4to, early vellum, minor wear; lacking frontispiece portrait and leaves a2, b2-3, and Eee4, a few leaves remargined including title, front hinge split, minor worming, a few early manuscript notes. [Madrid], 1653 [500/750] A life of Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo (1538-1606), the archbishop of Lima who spent decades traversing Peru alone on foot. He is said to have baptized hundreds of thousands, and was canonized in 1726. European Americana 653/72; JCB, page II:430; Medina BHA 7727 (listed in the prologue to Volume VI); Palau 135759; Sabin 40058. Provenance: Gaspar Perez Gomez; Buckingham Smith; Swann sale, 6 March 1997, lot 280, to the consignor. 366 c   (PERU.) Buendía, José de. Vida admirable y prodigiosas virtudes del venerable y apostolico Padre Francisco del Castillo. Portrait plate. [32], 666, [1] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn; dampstaining to preliminaries, title page slightly defective, moderate wear; edges speckled red. Madrid: Román, 1693 [600/900] first edition of the life of a Peruvian Jesuit (1615-1673), known for preaching to the Indians. The handsome portrait plate (engraved in Antwerp) is usually lacking. European Americana 693/37; Medina BHA 1905; Palau 36675; Sabin 9047. 367 c   (PERU.) Escalona Aguero, Gaspare de. Gazophilacium Regium Perubicum. [12], 168, 349 pages. Folio, contemporary vellum, minor wear; minor worming; small later bookplate ofVictorino de las Fuentes on front pastedown. Madrid, 1775 [400/600] Third edition, with some text in both Spanish and Latin. “A compendium of what was necessary to be known to the officers of the Crown, on going to South America”—Sabin 22820. Palau 80777. 368 c   (PERU.) Unanue, Hipólito. Observaciones sobre el clima de Lima. [18], 9, cxcviii, [2] pages. 4to,modern ¼ tree calf; moderate dampstaining, small manuscript correction slip pasted over part of final errata page; early inscription on verso of title page. Lima, 1806 [400/600] first edition of a work of climate science. Medina, Lima 2013 (calls for 2 subscriber leaves at end, rather than after the title as found here); Palau 344286 (“es rara esta primera edición”); Sabin 97719.