SOUTH
AMERICA
SOUTH
AMERICA
“Cancion
Patriotica de Caracas”
— Rare
BELLO
Poetry Broadside
Bello, Andrés. Broadside, begins: “Cancion Patriotica de Caracas.” [Caracas: Gallagher y Lamb, 1810]. Folio (31 cm; 12.25"). 1 p.
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the
premiere of this one, as unknown as that one is famous, is stirring to visualize.
Beginning, “Caraqueños, otra época empieza: / De la gloria la senda se
abrio,” it was sung for the first time by Cayetano Carreño himself and six other
voices, the night of 23 April 1810, with the accompaniment of the military orchestra
of the “Batallon Veterano.” The performance took place below the balcony on
which were assembled the members of the Supreme Junta.
That Bello wrote this patriotic song is known, and even the first few lines
were recorded for history, but beyond that 
the
text is not recorded and is not found in his Obras
completas or, apparently anywhere else.
In addition to the historic collaboration of Bello and Carreño, this fabulous document has the distinction of having been printed by Venezuela’s first press, that of Gallagher and Lamb, which only arrived in Caracas in October of 1808, and was almost certainly printed on 24 April, the day after the hymn was first sung!
Very
Rare.
This broadside was unknown to both Medina and Pedro Grases. Searches of NUC,
OCLC, and RLIN fail to find any copy at all, as is the case when searching
the OPACs of the national libraries of Venezuela, Colombia, Spain, France,
and England.
• Not in Medina, Caracas; not in Grases, Historia de la imprenta en Venezuela; not in Villasana. As issued. Worming in foremargin, repaired. A very good copy.
SRANAN! Bible. N.T. Sranan. Treu. 1846. Da Njoe Testament vo wi Masra en Helpiman Jesus Kristus. Bautzen: Ernst Moritz Mouse, 1846. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.55"). 592 pp 
the
Book of Psalms appears here in a new translation done by Treu.
• Darlow & Moule 6985. Recent full morocco framed in gilt double fillets, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped title, signed by Grace Bindings in blind at inner area of rear cover, lower turn-in. Pages age-toned and paper a bit brittle; one leaf with short tear from outer margin, extending into text.
Their
Judgment: FARCICAL Process, But
Enforceable Policy
. . .
Bolivia. Treaties. 1842. Manuscript Document Signed. Sucre, 10 December 1842. On paper, in Spanish. Folio, 3½ pp.
Bearing signatures, among others, of Pedro Buitrago, Narciso Dulón, Eusebio Gutiérrez, M. de la Cruz Méndez, José M. Dalence, and Manuel Sagarnaga.
• Very good condition. Two small tears at folds, not affecting text.
Slaves, Shipping, Sugar
(Brazilian Commerce). A collection of 20 alvarás and other royal decrees relating to Brazilian commerce and administration of the colony. Lisbon and elsewhere, 1754-88. Folio. Various pagings.
In all, an interesting sampling of the types of decrees that the kings and queens of Portugal issued in order to maintain order and discipline in the ever-increasingly important colony of Brazil. The value of the documents sold individually totals $6325.00, and the collection price represents a savings of above 20%.
• The vast bulk of these decrees are bound in faux morocco and faux mottled calf; those that are in wrappers or as issued are carefully noted. All are in very good condition.
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Our Guano!Briceño, Mariano de. Memoir justificatory of the conduct of the government of Venezuela on the Isla de Aves question, presented to his excellency the secretary of state of the United States.... Washington City: F.H. Sage, printer, 1858. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 22 pp., [1 (blank)] f.
• Not in Palau. Original yellow printed wrappers, removed from a nonce volume with stab holes in the inner margins; inside wrappers with a short closed tear and a little shallow chipping, light soiling and a few stray marks. Fold mark down the center and traces of soiling on the top edges.
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