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485. Peru Spain Colony Manuscript Signed by Viceroy Luis Enrique de guzman, Conde de Alva de Liste, ca. 1660 Manuscript relating to to the surco town about Indian taxes. Apprx 16-3/4" x 12", watermarked, laid paper. When the Spanish landed in 1531, Peru's territory was the nucleus of the highly developed Inca civilization. Centered at Cuzco, the Inca Empire extended over a vast region from northern Ecuador to central Chile. In search of Inca wealth, the Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro, who arrived in the territory after the Inca had fought a debilitating civil war, conquered the weakened people. The Spanish captured the Inca capital at Cuzco by 1533 and had consolidated their control by 1541, when Pizarro was assassinated. Establishing a stable colonial government was delayed for some time by native revolts and bands of the Conquistadores fighting among themselves. The initiation of an encomienda system meant that the Conquistadores extracted tribute for personal service, part of which was forwarded to Seville in return for converting the natives to Christianity. Title to the land itself remained with the king of Spain. As governor of Peru, Pizarro used the encomienda system to grant virtually unlimited authority over groups of native Peruvians to his soldier companions, forming the colonial land-tenure structure. The occupants of the land were now expected to raise Old World cattle and poultry and crops for their landlords.... 400/600 Sold: $149.50 |
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486. A Second Peru Indian Manuscript, Colonial Colony, circa 1610 Similar in origin to the previous lot. This manuscript is one page and is about the signed payment receieved by an Inca indian named Carhuapoma of the Ayllu Cayaguara for his work done. The Inca Indians worked like slaves in the colony years and his poor payment was used only to buy basic things to prepare their Spanish Conquers in the same vicious circle of slavery. paper apprx 12-1/4" x 8". 400/600 Sold: $195.50 |
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487. Black Slave Sale Contract, circa 1798 A printed document with hand writen details accounting the sale of a black slave. Text in Spanish, elaborately signed in lower margin and dated 1798. Paper apprx 12" x 7-3/4". 500/1,000 Sold: $230.00 |
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488. A Grouping of Persian Manuscript Leaves This group of three manuscripts includes two miscellaneous pages and one leaf from the Shah-Nameh of the Firdusi. Text is in Persian with four columns of Nasta Liq script and is dated ca. 18th century. All pages are very similar with blue and green borders and black and red text. Each leaf measures apprx 14-3/4" H x 10" W. 40/60 Sold: $34.50 |
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489. Illuminated Manuscript, 13th Century The best known book of the Middle Ages, the Latin Bible's text has survived almost word for word unchanged since early Christian times. The text of the Old Testament goes back to the Jews in Palestine centuries before Christ, and the text of the New Testament was written and assembled in the course of the First Century A.D. This page is from a Thirteenth-Century Bible, a time in which, among other changes, bibles were now produced not only by monks but by professional scribes and craftsmen who made their living from copying, decorating and selling the books. Nearly all surviving manuscripts of the of the Latin Bible belong this century. Apprx size 6" x 4" 100/200 Sold: $1,040.75 |
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490. (Miro, Joan: 1893-1983) Goll, Ivan. Bouquet de Reves pour Neila. Lithographs by Joan MIRO. Paris: F. Mourlot, 1967, first edition, one of 150 copies, signed in pencil by Joan Miro on the justification page, with text by Ivan Goll in French, illustrated with 18 original color lithographs, 7 hors-texte, of which 3 are double-page; circa 13 x 10 in. (333 x 257 mm), loose leaves, printed on Rives, contained in wrapper portfolio; a fine copy in the original cloth chemise and slipcase. References: Cramer 115; Mourlot 531-549; 800/1,200 Sold: $1,408.75 |
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491. "La Comedia Di Dante Allighieri Illustrata Da Ugo Foscolo" Londra, Pietro Rolandi, 1842-43. 1842. 4 vols., 8vo, with 10 engraved plates: two portraits of Dante, portrait of Foscolo, engraved view of the church at Ravenna with Dante's tomb, of the inside of the tomb, and of Foscolo's grave at Chiswick, plans of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise and a facsimile of Foscolo's sonnet on his own portrait. Each bears a bookplate form the library of Theodore Roosevelt and C.A. Hanbury as well as bookseller's sticker of P. Rolandi. Full leather with gilt tooled boards, five raised bands on spine with gilt and tooled compartments, gilt leather inserts for volume and title in compartments. Marbled edges and and interior boards. 800/1,200 Sold: $258.75 |
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492. Thomas Mann First Edition Inscribed and Signed in 1949, Adel des Geistes: Sechzehn Versuche zum Problem der Humanitat Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer, 1945. 7 3/4" x 5", 708 pages, [1] leaf (contents). First Edition. Original cloth and dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front fly leaf. This is the first printing of a collection of 16 previously published essays by Mann, several of them famous, dealing in some way with "the problem of humanity" by discussing various works by Lessing, Goethe, Tolstoi, Schopenhauer, Wagner, Freud, Cervantes, and others. Although Thomas Mann is known primarily as a novelist, and although he wrote no full-length studies of authors or artists, he was a prolific essay writer. The present group of essays includes "stimulating and penetrating excursions into criticism." (Oxford Companion) The inscription at the front reads (in German): "George Marek/ thankful for his visit/ and for his enjoyment of / this book/ Pacif. Palisades/ 11 April 1949/ Thomas Mann." Marek translated Mann's contribution to an anthology entitled The Ten Commandments, published during World War II. 500/700 Sold: $316.25 |
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493. Thomas Mann First Edition Inscribed and Signed in 1950 Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus: Roman Eines Romans Bermann-Fischer, 1949. 7 3/4" x 5", 204 pages. First Edition. Original flexible cloth boards and dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front fly leaf. Despite the subtitle here, this is not a novel, but, instead, a discursive autobiographical essay, written during the creation of the work referred to in the title. Specifically, it covers the period of Mann's creative work from January of 1943 to the appearance of the famous "Doktor Faustus" in 1947. The inscription here reads (in German): "To George Marek/ this intimate little book/ as a 'guest-gift'/ Pacific Palisades/ 8 Nov. 1950/ Thomas Mann." 500/700 Sold: $316.25 |
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494. The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer New York: The Beethoven Association, 1934, fourth printing. Edited and translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel. 3 vols., dark blue cloth with gilt embossed boards. Plates with tissue guards, deckled edges. Apprx 10-1/4" x 7-1/4". 50/100 Sold: $40.25 |
