Search results for: 'the works'
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BANKING - HUTH & CO. Substantial collection of letters to the banker Frederick Huth, from his agents in Spain.1814-1850
An extensive collection of letters sent to the founder and proprietor of the Frederick Huth & Co banking house, Frederick Huth (1777-1864), from his Spanish agents. Huth was born in Germany to an ordinary soldier, worked for a Spanish merchant in Hamburg, and established a business in Corunna, Spain. In 1809 he fled to England following the invasion... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 135449
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NERUDA, Pablo. "Argentina, escucha lo que mi patria te dice", typescript poem signed.[June 1944]
A scarce example of a signed carbon copy typescript poem by Pablo Neruda, with three small corrections in his hand. The 18-verse poem "Argentina, escucha lo que mi patria te dice" ("Argentina, hear what my country says to you") was written by the Chilean poet and diplomat on 4 June 1944 in response to the coup d'état of 1943 in Argentina. It was first... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 134176
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CERVANTES, Miguel de; Jacob Campo Weyerman (trans.) De voornaamste Gevallen van den wonderlyken Don Quichot,The Hague : 1746
An extraordinary example of one of the most significant illustrated Cervantes editions of the 18th century; a fine, large paper copy of the lavish 1746 Hague edition of Don Quixote, each of the 31 copperplates here beautifully illuminated by a contemporary hand and heightened with gold, presented in an elaborately worked Dutch binding.
The grand... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 137295
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PAZ, Octavio. Blanco.Mexico City : 1967
First and limited edition, number 405 of 579 copies, of one of Paz's major works, experimental in both form and content, which, when unfolded, "in a certain sense produces text by transforming the space itself into a text" (Sanchez). It was composed while Paz was serving in India as Mexican ambassador; his time there is important in relation to his... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 132640
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LORCA, Federico Garcia. Canciones.Madrid : 1929
Second edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title to fellow "Generation of '27" group member "Para Guillermo de Torre lo salucha a la distancia, Federico Garcia Lorca", and with de Torre's purple ink ex libris stamp to verso of front free endpaper. A great association copy, connecting Spanish and South American literary circles.
Lorca... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 143185
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BORGES, Jorge Luis. Discusion.Buenos Aires : 1932
First edition, first printing, of this collection of 15 essays on wide ranging topics such as philosophy, literary criticism, and epistemology. Discusion was expanded and republished in 1957 as the sixth volume of his Complete Works, a project that began in 1953. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 147691
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BORGES, Jorge Luis - ALMAFUERTE. Obras I. Lamentaciones.La Plata : 1906
First edition, sole impression, of this scarce first instalment in the works of Argentine poet Pedro B. Palacios (1854-1917, who wrote as "Almafuerte"). This is a superb association copy with the ownership inscription of his Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) to the first blank. Borges in his early career, before turning to short stories in the 1940s, considered... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131513
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HUME, David. Historia de Inglaterra,Barcelona : 1842-1845
First edition in Spanish of Hume's History of Great Britain, originally published in six quarto volumes between 1754 and 1762, volume five containing the continuations by Smollett, Adolphus and Aikin. Although the title page announces 32 engraved plates, only 17 were included, as demonstrated by the list at the end of volume five.
Hume's monumental... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 141008
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LORCA, Federico García. Ode à Salvador Dali.Paris : 1938
First edition, first printing, inscribed by both translators on the front free endpaper, "à Francis Poulenc, hommage des traducteurs, Paul Éluard, Louis Parrot", one of the few hors commerce copies, unnumbered as issued, from a total edition of 515 copies.
This copy brings together a nexus of Franco-Spanish network of friendships and affairs... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132463
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PERCEVAL, Richard; & John Minsheu. A Dictionarie in Spanish and English,London : 1599
First edition thus, based on two textbooks of Spanish by Richard Perceval (or Percyvall), entitled Bibliotheca Hispanica (1591), the lexicon of which John Minsheu (1559/601627) considerably augmented. Minsheu "refers to hostility towards his work in certain quarters, but ensured the grant of a licence to print by applying successfully to the archbishop... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138829
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LANGE, Norah. Cuadernos de Infancia.Buenos Aires : 1937
Signed limited issue, number 6 of 22 copies on Hammermill paper signed by the author on the limitation leaf, out of a total edition of 725; this copy a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second front free endpaper: "Para Daniel S. Devoto, atento y fino y minucioso, poblado de palabras y gestos de generosa duración, versallesca y entusiasta... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 132555
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BORGES, Jorge Luis - GÜIRALDES, Ricardo. Don Segundo Sombra.Buenos Aires : 1926
First edition, first printing, a major association copy, being the copy of Jorge Luis Borges, with his ownership signature dated Buenos Aires 1936 on the title page. Güiraldes and Borges were friends, and both influenced the literary career of the other. They met around 1924-5, and Borges helped Güiraldes launch the magazine Proa. It was Güiraldes... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 130488
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RIBADENEIRA, Pedro de. Tratado de la tribulacion, repartido en dos libros.Madrid : 1589
First edition of a work on the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Ribadeneira (1527-1611), a member of a noble Castilian family, studied at the universities of Paris, Louvain, and Padua, before becoming a leading diplomat and administrator within the Jesuit order, and St. Ignatius Loyola's first biographer. Here he justifies the intended invasion and looks... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 84941
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MARX, Karl. El Capital.Madrid : 1886[-87]
Exceptionally rare first edition in Spanish, an abridged translation of volume one of Marx's Das Kapital (Capital). Its scarcity is explained by the brittle, poor quality of the paper stock - the same used for printing Zafrilla's newspaper - and its very small print run, thought to number no more than a thousand copies in total.
Pablo Correa... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 130328
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BORGES, Jorge Luis. Inquisiciones.Buenos Aires : 1925
First edition, first impression, a superlative presentation copy of the author's first work of prose. One of 505 copies printed, this is a uniquely untrimmed, unnumbered, and specially bound presentation copy inscribed by Borges on the first blank to his fellow Argentine author, and muse, Norah Lange (1905-1972).
Borges's inscription, using the... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 145266
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MARTÍN DE CÓRDOBA, Fray. Jardín de las nobles donzellas.Medina del Campo : 1542
Rare second edition, effectively the only obtainable printing, of this book of advice for Queen Isabel of Spain, a pro-feminist treatise in the "mirror for princes" tradition, which instructed and entertained "with references to the popular contemporary controversy of the battle between the sexes" (Goldberg, p. 126).
Fray Martín taught at the... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 139886
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IRIARTE, Tomás de. Fabulas Literarias.Perpignan : 1816
An unusual edition printed in Spanish in Perpignan of Iriarte's best known work, first published in 1782. No copy in the British Library; WorldCat locates four copies in North America. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 51537
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NERUDA, Pablo, & Tomas Lago. Anillos.Santiago : 1926
First edition of this early Neruda work, scarce in such nice condition. From the library of the noted Argentinean writer, musicologist, and hispanist Daniel Devoto (1916-2001), with his and his wife Maria Beatriz del Valle-Inclán's stamp to the front free endpaper. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 132520
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VALDES, Ramon. Metodo de llevar y uniformar la cuenta y razon en las contadurias principales del reino, y tratado teorico-practico para las casas de comercio: Ordenado por Don Ramon Valdés, Oficial del Real Giro de la Tesorería general de S. M.Madrid : 1817
First edition of a scarce work introducing a standard method of accounting for use by the main Comptrollers of the kingdom of Spain, with a theoretical and practical treatise for business houses, illustrated with examples, complete with the 4-page Adicion. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 111621
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SCARPA, Roque Esteban. Dos poetas españoles. Federico García Lorca. Rafael Alberti.Santiago : 1935
First edition, first printing. With a signed presentation inscription from the author to the philosopher and essayist Ramiro de Maeztu on the verso of the front wrapper: "A Ramiro de Maeztu, mi devoción por su obra maravillosamente hispana, cerradamente española. R. E. Scarpa... Stgo de Chile. Dic. 1935" ("To Ramiro de Maeztu, my devotion to his marvellously... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 132519
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LORCA, Federico Garcia. Primeras Canciones.Madrid : 1936
First edition, first printing. The poems are described in the preface as a "miraculously unpublished... preview of a more extensive and representative set," written in 1922, and "extremely important for the further development of Lorca's poetic world". Uncommon in such good condition.
Also issued in yellow boards, this work was published in January... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 142876
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BORGES, Jorge Luis. Leopoldo Lugones.Buenos Aires : 1955
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed by Borges on the title page, "Para Vicente Barbieri, afectos y un abrazo, Jorge Luis Borges". Barbieri (1903-1956) was a notable Argentine poet, posthumously awarded the National Prize for Poetry after his early death from tuberculosis. In this work Borges addresses the legacy of another Argentine... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 129522
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CERVANTES, Miguel de. El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.Madrid : 1780
First printing of the celebrated Ibarra edition. Printed for La Real Academia Española (the Spanish Royal Academy) by Joaquín Ibarra y Marín, this edition was intended to be a supreme example of Spanish craftsmanship lavished on the nation's greatest literary work. This edition excels in beauty of type, design, paper, illustration and printing, as... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 137798
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CARRIÓN, Ulises. De Alemania.Mexico : 1970
First edition and only edition, number 533 of 3,000 copies, of Carrión's second book, a collection of six short stories employing the interior monologue, by "perhaps Mexico's most important conceptual artist" (Torre). Uncommon on the market: we were unable to trace any other copies for sale or at auction.
Ulises Carrión (1941-1989) wrote De... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 143753
