Search Results: Spanish History and Literature from Focloir

Catholic Church bjas Bilinkoff, Jodi, 1955- The Avila of Saint Teresa: religious reform in a sixteenth-century city. Ithaca; London : Cornell University Press, 1989, xv, 218 pages, ill., maps, index, bib. Very good in dust jacket. $12.50 Box 4118

Religion 978 Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881. The Bible in Spain, or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the peninsula. Second edition. Three volumes. London: John Murray, 1843, xxiv, 370p, pub ads; viii, 398p, pub ads; viii, 391p, pub ads. Rebound in green buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Very solid copies, clean text, some minor chipping to side paper edges on some pages. Very handsome bookplates, motto of "Peperi virtute parta tuemini". Pepperrell family of Maine? The three volumes: $100.00

Ancient world 439 Braulio of Saragossa, ca 585-651. Braulio of Saragossa: Fructuosus of Braga. (Iberian fathers: Volume 2). Translated by Claude W. Barlow. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1969, v, 243 p, bib, index. Like new copy. (Fathers of the church: a new translation; v. 63). $14.50

Ancient world 1394 Wiener, Leo, 1862-1939. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture. Four Volumes. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1917 & 1919, Volumes I & II; Philadelphia: Innes & Sons, 1920 & 1921, Volumes III & IV: Vol. I: xxxvi + 301; Vol. II: xii + 400; Vol. III: xi + 328; Vol. IV: xi + 328. Good, clean tight copies. A study of early examples of medieval literature and their linguistic roots including Latin, Gothic and Arabic. Leo Wiener argues that Germanic languages have arisen by a sudden influx of Low Latin and Arabic. He demonstrates that they arose from the Graeco-Latin glossaries through Gothic interpretations, which themselves owe their origin to the Graeco-Arabic learning of Spain. $60.00

Ancient world 1339 Veny, Cristóbal. Corpus de las inscripciones baleáricas hasta la dominación árabe. (Biblioteca de la Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma; 15). Roma: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Delegación de Roma, 1965, xxi, 282p, index, 52 plates. Paperback. Fine, copy, no marks, pages still uncut. $40.00

Art 1035 (Gaudi). Collins, George R. & Juan Bassegoda Nonell. The Designs and Drawings of Antonio Gaudi. Princeton University Press, 1983, xx, 83 pages, 70 black and white plates & 50 illus. index. Book is in good to good plus condition, minor spotting to top paper edge. Dust jacket is good, has a few chips along spine. Not an ex-library copy. This catalogue raisonné of Gaudi's work is much sought after. $115.00This is a oversized book and heavy.

Ancient world 4344 Collins, Roger. Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400-1000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983, xx, 317 pages, bib, notes, index, maps. Very good to fine in like dust jacket. $10.00

Spain 125 Selke, Angela. El Santo Oficio de la Inquisición: proceso de Fr. Francisco Ortiz, 1529-1532. Prologue by José Luis L. Aranguren. Madrid: Ediciones Gaudarrama, 1968, 402p, bibliography. Paperbound. Good to very good copy, clean, tight, no marks. Rafael Bosch, the Spanish historian, has signed his name on the title page. $21.50 Box 24

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Dunn, E. Catherine (Ellen Catherine), 1916- The Gallican saint's life and the late Roman dramatic tradition. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1989, ix, 164p, bib, index. Like new in dust jacket. $15.00

Art 65h8g (Gaudi). Hensbergen, Gijs van. Gaudi: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 2001, xxxvii, 322 pages, notes, bib, index, maps, extensively illustrated in color and black-and-white, including illustrated end papers. Fine in dust jacket. $5.00 Box A89

Spain 002 Monardes, Nicolás, ca. 1512-1588. Joyfull newes out of the newe founde worlde. Written in Spanish by Nicholas Monardes, physician of Seville, and Englished by John Frampton, merchant anno 1557; with an introduction by Stephen Gaselee. London/New York: Constable/ A.A. Knopf, 1925, xxvii, 177p; 188p, illus. This edition is limited to 1025 copies. This reprint combines two editions. Vol. 1 and v. 2, p. 1-48 contain the matter comprised in the 1577 edition of Frampton's translation; p. 49-188 of v. 2 are from the 2d English edition, 1580. The original from which Frampton translated is the Seville edition, 1574. Translation of Primera y segvnda y tercera partes de la historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales que siruen en medicina. Some minor chipping top of spine of Volume I as well as rubbing to edges on cover panels, corners slightly dented, exposing boards. Volume 2 has more loss to head of spine than volume 1. More paper loss too to board edges.… Read More

Philosophy sfkd Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617. On the various kinds of distinctions (Disputationes metaphysicae, Disputatio VII, de variis distinctionum generibus). Translation from the Latin, with an introduction by Cyril Vollert, S. J.. (Series Title: Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation, no. 4). Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1976, 67 pages, bib. (Reprint of 1947 publication). Paperback. Some dustiness but very good, no marks. $15.00 Box A 124

Middle Ages mjpl Muldoon, James. Popes, lawyers, and infidels : the church and the non-Christian world, 1250-1550. (Series:Middle Ages series). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979, xi, 212 pages, notes, bib, index. Very good copy of the hardback. No dust jacket. $12.50 Box 2424

Ancient world 824Lasa, Bernardo Estornés. Sobre Historia y Origenes de la Lengua Vasca. (Separata del tomo II y parte del IV de "Orígenes de los Vascos."). San Sebastián: Auñamendi,1967,
291 p., [7] leaves of plates: ill. Paperback. Cover has some fading where it was shelved next to a smaller book, good overall. Very uncommon $35.00

Music spaf Spanish-American folk-songs: As sung and played by Mrs. Francisca de la Guerra Dibblee, Miss Carlota Manuela Corella, Miss E. A. Seeger, Mrs. Geoffrey Hamer, Mrs. Theodore Barnes, mrs. Karbe, Senorita Luz Gonzales Dosal, Mrs. Dane Coolidge... Collected by Eleanor Hague. Lancaster, Pa.: American Folk-lore Society, 1917, 115p. Book is in good condition but there are a number of pages with the corners folded down. There is wear to top of spine and top edge of cover panel. Tipped in is a small envelope with Hague's calling card, with handwritten note: "Merry Christmas and love". Addressed to Mrs. Arnold Hague of Washinton, D. C. $15.00 Box 27
Serenata; El trobador ; La casita; Yo no sé si me quieres; Los ojos mexicanos; Dime, mujer adorada; Yo te amo, idolatro; Pregúntale a las estrellas; Reir es necesario; Angel de mis amores; Un adios: canción; La paloma blanca; Que bello es querer; Tiemblo con tus miradas; Encantadora María; Crepúsculo; ¡O blanca virgen a tu ventana!; Tu eres… Read More

Mexico croix Croix, Teodoro de, 1730-1791. Teodoro de Croix and the northern frontier of New Spain, 1776-1783, from the original document in the Archives of the Indies, Seville, Translated and edited by Alfred Barnaby Thomas. (Series: American exploration and travel). Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941, xiii, 273, [1] pages, bib, index., frontispiece (portrait) plates, facsimiles. $30.00 Box 132
First printing of the first edition. Signature of previous owner from 1941 on front free endpaper.

Spain 001 Burns, Robert I., 1921-2008. The crusader kingdom of Valencia; reconstruction on a thirteenth-century frontier. Two volumes.Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1967, xviii, 561 pages, illus., maps, bib, notes, index. Very extensive notes, bib, and index. Fine copies in fine dust jackets, which are in turn protected by mylar dust jackets. Signature of previous owner on front free endpapers. $45.00

Mexico 002 Simpson, Lesley Byrd, 1891-1984. The encomienda in new Spain; the beginning of Spanish Mexico.
Revised and enlarged edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, xv, 257 pages, map, facsim, bib, index. Fine copy of the hardcover, no dust jacket. $10.00

Mexico 001 Santa Maria, Vicente de, O. F. M. (1742 – July 16, 1806). The first Spanish entry into San Francisco Bay, 1775; the original narrative, hitherto unpublished, and further details by participants in the first explorations of the Bay's waters, together with four contemporary maps and six illustrations in full colour from the brush and pencil of Louis Choris who was at San Francisco in 1816. Edited by John Galvin. San Francisco: Published by John Howell - Books, 1971, 130p, bib, illus. (part col.), facsims., maps.Designed and printed by Lawtonand Alfred Kennedy.Text in English and Spanish. Larger, handsome book in like dust jacket. $22.50
Contents: Introduction -- Prologue, from the journal of Father Miguel de la Campa, 1775 -- Journal of Father Vicente Santa Maria, 1775 -- The map that accompanied Father Santa María's journal -- From the journal of Juan Manuel de Ayala, 1775 -- Letter of Captain Ayala to the Viceroy Bucareli, November 9, 1775 -- The report of José de Cañizares to Captain… Read More

Ancient world 982. The world of ancient Spain. Translated by David Macrae. Geneva: Minerva, c1976,140 p, illus. Many photos. Good, clean tight copy in dust jacket. $8.50