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Contents
Bahia.........................................Item 1
Belem........................................Item 2
Buenos Aires....................Items 3-31
Callao.....................................Item 32
Caracas............................Items 33-37
Ceará......................................Item 38
Concordia..............................Item 39
Lima................................Items 40-47
Montevideo..........................Item 48
Ouro Preto............................Item 49
Porto Alegre.........................Item 50
Quito...............................Items 51-53
Recife-Pernambuco...Items 53A-58
Rio de Janeiro.............Items 59-106
Rio Grande do Sul............Item 107
Santiago de Chile.....Items 108-141
Sao Paulo...................Items 142-143
Valparaiso..................Items 144-145
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BAHIA
1. ARAUJO, Francisco Antonio. Razões do advogado Dr. Francisco Antonio
d'Araujo, por parte de Francisco José de Sousa Nobre. Bahia: Typographia
Constitucional de França Guerra, 1864. 8°, original printed wrappers
(small nick to bottom margin of upper cover; small hole in lower cover).
Overall in very good condition. 45 pp.
$350.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Argues against an appeal of a judgment on an inheritance.
❊ Cf. Innocêncio IX, 252, an earlier work by the author. Not in Sacramento Blake.
Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Melvyl.
BELÉM DE PARÁ
Rare Belém de Pará Imprint
2. ABREU, José Coelho da Gama e, later Barão de Marajó. Falla com
que o Excellentissimo Senhor Doutor José Coelho da Gama e Abreu
presidente da provincia abriu a 2ª sessão da 21ª legislatura da Assembléa
Legislativa da Provincia do Gram-Pará em 16 de Junho de 1879. [Belém
de] Pará: Typ. Liberal do Pará, 1879. Small folio, original blue printed
wrappers (light foxing, corners curling, small defects at head and foot
of spine). Light marginal foxing. In good to very good condition. 50
pp., (1 l.), xxx pp., 2 large folding tables, many tables in text. $400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, rare. This speech made at the opening of the provincial
legislature of Grão Pará provides a wide ranging picture of the state of the province,
covering education, the public library, police, military, public health, waterworks, public
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gardens, commerce, finance, etc. There is also a section covering the various municipalities
of the province. The final xxx pp. contain "Annexos" with an introduction by José Luiz
Coelho, followed by documents and statistical analysis.
José Coelho da Gama e Abreu, Barão de Marajó, a native of Belém de Pará (1832-1906),
was a Brazilian political figure and historian. He was President of his native province
from 1879 to 1881, and previously served as President of the province of Amazonas from
1867 to 1868. Having spent much of his childhood in Portugal, studying mathematics and
earning a degree in philosophy at Coimbra University, Abreu returned to Pará in 1855.
Among his publications was a travel account: Do Amazonas ao Sena, Nilo, Bósphoro
e Danúbio … 3 volumes, Lisbon, 1874-1876, and A Amazôna. As Províncias do Pará e
Amazonas e o governo central deo Brazil, Lisbon, 1883. He was a member of the Real
Academia das Sciencias de Lisboa.
❊ Sacramento Blake IV, 386-7 (giving a shortened title, and without collation). Not
located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51
databases searched).
BUENOS AIRES
First Rio de la Plata Imprint with Title Page in Red and Black
3. SAN ALBERTO, José Antonio de, Archbishop of La Plata. Oracion
funebre que en las solemnes excequias [sic] del Muy Alto, y Poderoso Señor
Carlos III, Rey de Espana y de las Indias, celebradas en la Santa Iglesia
Metropolitana de la Plata, con asistencia de su Real Audiencia, y Cabildos
Eclesiàsticos, y Secular, dixo .... Buenos Aires: Impreso en la Real
Imprenta de los Niños Expositos, 1789. 4°, contemporary (or slightly
later) mottled sheep (one corner bumped), smooth spine with gilt
bands and ornaments (worn and chipping, hinges weak), marbled
endleaves. Title page in red and black. Luxuriously printed on heavy
paper, with large type and wide margins. Internally fine; overall in
very good condition. Old paper tag with blue border and shelfmark
in ink ("74") near head of spine. (1 l.), 128 pp.
$3,000.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this funeral oration, printed with generous margins
and a title page in red and black - the first two-color printing in Rio de la Plata, judging
from Medina.
San Alberto, an absolutist, eulogizes the saintliness of King Carlos III of Spain (1716-
1788), one of the eighteenth century's most famous enlightened despots. King Carlos's
activities included promoting education, facilitating trade and industry, and reforming
the Church. The reforms included the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767, a fact referred
to obliquely on pp. 58-61. Furlong notes that some of San Alberto's effusive praise was
disputed even by his contemporaries.
Frei José Antonio de San Alberto (1727-1804), born in the Aragonese town of Fresno,
professed in the Carmelite convent in Zaragoza in 1744 and was named prior of the Convent
of St. Theresa in 1766. He later became Procurador General of the Order in Madrid and
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acted as royal preacher and Examinador Sinodal for the Archbishop of Toledo. In 1778 he
was appointed Bishop of Córdoba de Tucumán by Carlos III, and in 1786 became Bishop
of La Plata. He was one of the outstanding prelates of the late colonial period in Latin
America, known for his learning and for his charity to the poor. For his contributions
to education, he has been compared to Domingo F. Sarmiento, father of the educational
system in Argentina. René-Moreno commented, "The characteristics of the writings of
San Alberto are: persuasive reasoning based upon a great deal of first-hand knowledge
of the sacred scriptures and canons. They follow a simple and cohesive structure and a
mellifluous tone which draws even the most profane readers. This last feature has assured
a lasting success to his writings" (no. 508).
❊ Furlong, Rioplatenses 332. Medina, La Plata 115. Palau 289515. Sabin 75980. OCLC:
47646214 (Houghton Library-Harvard University, Indiana University); 84241095 (John
Carter Brown Library); 776422935 (Biblioteca Nacional de España); 504636616 (British
Library). CCPBE locates copies at in the Biblioteca Pública del Estado en Huesca, the
Fundación Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid, and the Facultad de Teología del Norte de España
in Burgos. Rebiun lists an incomplete manuscript copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de
España. Jisc repeats British Library only.
Enormously Popular Collection
4. SAN ALBERTO, José Antonio de, Archbishop of La Plata. Voces
del pastor en el retiro. Dispertador, y exercicios spirituales, para vivir y morir
bien con la asistencia del glorioso Patriarca San Joseph …. Buenos Aires:
En la Real Imprenta de los Niños Expòsitos, 1789. 4°, later stiff vellum,
edges rouged from an old binding. Some marginal soiling at front, faint
dampstains, darker in lower blank margins of final 8 leaves. In very
good condition. (1 l.), 275, (3) pp.
$1,300.00
FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the layout of the title slightly different from that
of the first issue; see Furlong, who suggests that the second issue was either printed in
the same year or in the following one, without a change of date on the title-page. Voces
del pastor was enormously popular, with at least nine editions appearing by the mid-
nineteenth century. Its subject is dying: salvation, redemption, receiving the last rites,
God's judgment, and heaven and hell.
Frei José Antonio de San Alberto (1727-1804), born in the Aragonese town of Fresno,
professed in the Carmelite convent in Zaragoza in 1744 and was named prior of the
Convent of St. Theresa in 1766. He later became procurador general of the Order in Madrid
and acted as royal preacher and examinador sinodal for the Archbishop of Toledo. In
1778 he was appointed Bishop of Córdoba de Tucumán by King Charles III, and in 1786
became Bishop of La Plata. He was one of the outstanding prelates of the late colonial
period in Latin America, known for his learning and for his charity to the poor. For his
contributions to education, he has been compared to Domingo F. Sarmiento, father of
the educational system in Argentina. René-Moreno comments, "The characteristics of
the writings of San Alberto are: persuasive reasoning based upon a great deal of first-
hand knowledge of the sacred scriptures and canons. They follow a simple and cohesive
structure and a mellifluous tone which draws even the most profane readers. This last
feature has assured a lasting success to his writings" (no. 508).
❊ Furlong 337. Medina, Buenos Aires 116. Palau 289516: giving an incomplete
collation. Sabin 75981. NUC: CtY, RPJCB. OCLC: 829292636 (a digitized copy: Biblioteca
Nacional de España); 83438157 (Houghton Library, University of Notre Dame, University