galvez josef (3 Ergebnisse)

First edition. [2 lvs], xlvi, 214 pp. Illus. with an engraving by Joaquin Fabregat of the Spanish arms and depicting mining implements. Folio. Signed in ink with Galvez' paraph under his printed name. First edition of this "rare and valuable compendium of the old mining laws and mineral customs, printed only for the use of the parties concerned," (Sabin) and meant to govern the workings of silver mining in New Spain. Galvez was a special Minister of the Indies who was instructed to reform the mining laws of Mexico. In this work, which could only be owned by Spanish-born miners, he not only transcribed all the royal decrees concerning mining in New Spain but also provided information concerning mining operations, training, discovery of new mines, and technology and governance. Signed in manuscript with his rubric attesting to the accuracy of the copy. Further editions were published in 1785/6 in Lima (both folio and quarto) and in Santiago in 1833. Sabin 56260. Palau 203088 & 251937. Medina BHA V: 5040. Maffei/Figueroa Bibl. Esp. Minerales. Boards worn with some loss to the tail of the spine hinges split though firm, dampstained along bottom edge, some ink smudges especially to edges of frontispiece, section titles in manuscript on each page, otherwise contents quite sharp, and overall about very good. Full contemporary cat's paw vellum.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Galvez (illustrator). A lovely limited edition of this treatise on the cultivation of tobacco, reproduced in facsimile from the 1764 original, complete with colourful illustrations. A limited edition of this work, limited to nine hundred and sixty bound in full cloth, of which the present is numbered five hundred and three. Comprising two volumes, one being the reproduction in facsimile of the original 1764 edition in full cloth, the other a large paper copy in the original publisher's wraps including critical annotations. In the original Spanish.An eighteenth century Spanish treatise with instructions on the cultivation of tobacco by Nicolas Josef Rapun. Originally published in 1764. Illustrated with eleven full page colour plates comprising twenty-nine illustrations and a plan of the Cuba island indicating the parts where to plant tobacco by Galvez. Collated, complete. Two volumes in the original publisher's full cloth binding with decorative marginal gilt and marbled endpapers, and in the original publisher's uniform paper wraps. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities to the cloth copy, minor damp marking to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with eleven full page colour plates comprising twenty-nine illustrations and a plan of the Cuba island indicating the parts where to plant tobacco by Galvez. Collated, complete. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd edition from Lima, Peru. 4to. [2], lxxix, [1], vii, [1], 269, [3] pp. Contemporary vellum binding, lacking 1 tie and furniture, with minor wear and discoloration, yapped edges. Edges speckled in red and blue. Overall clean copy with minor wear. Compendium of mining laws from colonial Mexico.