Americas / Brazil

MOUTINHO DOS SANTOS, Joaquim. Guia medica para prevenir, e tratar o cholera-morbo offerecida ao provedor, e irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia.
Santos, Typographia commercial de G. Delius, 1855. With the title on the front wrapper set within a decorative frame and the front wrapper and the title page show the same decorative device, including medical instruments, books, the profile of a head with a name(?) in Greek letters. Original publisher's green wrappers. 20 pp. Full description

NIEUHOF, Johan. Gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense zee- en lant- reize ...
Amsterdam, widow of Jacob van Meurs, 1682.
With: (2) NIEUHOF, Johan. Zee en lant-reize, door verscheide gewesten van Oostindien ... en inzonderheit een wijtloopig verhael der stad Batavia.
Amsterdam, widow of Jacob van Meurs, 1682. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved general title page, 2 typographical title pages for the two works with Van Meurs' woodcut vignette, the first printed in red and black. Ad 1 with a full-page engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Nicolaas Witsen, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and 14 engraved plates (1 double-page map, 2 double-page plates, 2 full-page, and 9 half-page in the text). Further with 6 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with 69 engraved plates (3 double-page maps, 26 double-page plates, 16 full-page plates, and 16 half-page plates in the text), 6 woodcut decorated initials, and 1 woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, manuscript title on the spine. [4 blank], [12], "240" [=246], [2]; [4], "308" [=310], [4], [4 blank] pp. Full description

ORTEGA, Casimiro de (translator), [Charles CLERKE (attributed)]. Viage del comandante Byron al rededor del mundo, hecho ultimamente de orden del almirantazgo de Inglaterra.
Madrid, Don Francisco Mariano Nipho, 1769. 4to. With a full-page, copper-engraved frontispiece, a large, folding, copper-engraved map of the Strait of Magellan in the back with the coasts highlighted in blue, and ornamental head-pieces throughout. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title and a (later) shelf mark ("143") on the spine. [18], 245, [1 blank] pp. Full description

OTTONI, José Eloi. Parafraze dos proverbios de Salomão em verso portuguez, dedicada ao serenissimo principe da beira nosso senhor.
Bahia, Brazil, Manuel Antonio de Silva Serva, 1815. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on title page and with head-pieces built-up from typographical ornaments throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled tanned sheepskin with a black morocco label on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [2 blank], 357, [5 blank] pp. Full description

OTTSEN, Hendrick. [Journal] Oft dagheliicx-register van de voyagie na Rio de Plata, ghedaen met het schip ghenoemt de Silveren Werelt.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1617. Oblong 4to (ca. 23 x 17 cm). With 5 full-page engraved plates. 19th-century citron calf, housed in a quarter morocco with back cloth clamshell case. [2], 54 pp. Full description

OZANNE, Nicolas-Marie. Recueil des combats de Duguay-Trouïn [= Les campagnes de Duguay-Trouin].
Paris, Yves Marie le Gouaz, [1774]. Engraved print series with XV plates (2 double-page) and 7 leaves with engraved text on both sides. Lacking a half-title present in some copies.
With: (2) OZANNE, Pierre. Recueil des combats de Jean-Bart, chef d'escadre sous Louis XIV, suivis de l'abrégé de sa vie.
Paris, Yves Marie le Gouaz, 1806. With 19 numbered engraved half-page plates by Le Gouaz after Ozanne. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio (41.5 x 29 cm). Contemporary half green sheepskin parchment. 12, II engraved pp. text plus XV plates; 8 pp. plus [9] ll. with engravings. Full description

PALLIERE, Jean Léon. Album Palliere. Escenas Americanas. Reduccion de cuadros, aquarelles y bosquejos.
Buenos Aires, Fusoni brothers, [1864?]. Oblong Royal folio (32.5 x 52 cm). With lithographed title-page and 52 tinted lithographed plates (image size mostly about 19 x 32 cm), lithographed by J. Pelvilain after designs by Juan Léon Palliere. Contemporary, gold-tooled green morocco. Lithographic title-page plus 52 plates. Full description

[PARAGUAY - KING NICOLAS I]. Histoire de Nicolas I. Roy du Paraguai, et Empereur des Mamelus.
Saint Paul [= São Paulo, but the work was likely printed somewhere in Western Europe], 1756. 8vo. With a typographical ornament on the title-page. Contemporary brown paste paper wrappers. 88 pp. Full description

PEREIRA DE BERREDO, Bernardo. Annaes historicos do Estado do Maranhao, em que se da noticia do seu descobrimento, e tudo o mais que nelle tem sucedido desde o anno em que foy descuberto até o de 1718.
Lisbon, 1749, Francisco Luiz Ameno. Folio (283 x 194 mm). Later half vellum. [26], 710 pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LATIN AMERICA]. [Album with photographs, engravings, and drawings relating to Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile].
[ca. 1885]. Oblong (ca. 38 x 27.5 cm). With 20 albumen prints, 43 plates (engraved and lithographed), and 3 drawings. Contemporary gold-tooled dark purple quarter morocco, brownish-purple pebble-grain cloth sides, with a paper label ("3") mounted on the front. [31] ll. Full description