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Bolivar improves medical services in Venezuela
Simón Bolívar (1783-1830); José Rafael Revenga (1786-1852).
Decreto sobre el rèjimen i gobierno del hospital militar.
[Caracas, April 23, 1827].
8°. 18 pp.
Recent paper covers.
Decree by Bolivar to improve the military hospital at Caracas, Venezuela and the medical infrastructure in general. Issued by his Secretary General José Rafael Revenga, this lists 19 articles to which the hospital and all other medical establishments should adhere to. The final pages states that this decree was "Given at my headquarters in Caracas on April 23, 1827-17°". Medical services had been largely the responsibility of religious organisations. Bolivar aimed to strip monastic orders of their influence and the present decree can be seen as an example of that development.This decree was issued just after settling, temporarily, the rebellion of Jose Antonio Paez in Venezuela. In 1826 Bolivar travelled to Venezuela to subjugate the resistance instigated by General Paez.… Read More

Manuscript description of inner Algeria 1841-1844
Ménon (1820-?).
Les montagnes de Dj'erf-el-Achard ou la vie d'un jeune soldat en Afrique. Détails sur différentes villes de France et distance d'un endroit à l'autre, le nom des différents bivouacs. Les différentes embarcation et distance.
Algeria, 1841-1844.
12°. 181 pp. With a paper sheet attached to front pastedown.
With pencil drawings depicting plans of a fort on recto of endpaper and a three-master ship on verso. Title-page illustrated in pencil with cacti and palm trees. Also with a gouache and pencil drawing of two Algerian armed men called "zouave" and "indigene" on paper pasted on back pastedown.
Sewn over vellum spine with cardboard sides, the front bearing the number 58.
Long, detailed and illustrated handwritten diary of a French soldier in Algeria, kept from March 22, 1841 until August 15, 1844. The author states on the first page that he was born on July 24, 1820 in the small French village of Gène and his name is Ménon. He does… Read More

A masterpiece of Dutch Golden Age printmaking
Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629).
Maniement d'armes d'arqvebuses, movsquets, et piqves. En conformité de l'ordre de Monseigneur le Prince Maurice, Prince d'Orange, Comte de Nassau etc. Gouverneur et Capitain General de Geldres, Hollande, Zeelande, Utrecht, Overijssel etc. Representé par figures, par Jaques de Gheijn. Ensemble les enseignemens par escrit, a l'utilite de tous amateurs des armes, et ausi pour tous capitaines & commandeurs, pour par cecy, pouvoir plus facillement enseigner a leurs soldatz inexperimentez, l'entier et parfait maniement dicelles armes […].
Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous, On les vend' ausi a Amsterdam chez Henrij Laurens, 1608 [= imprint date changed in the plate from 1607 to 1608, but according to STCN, in fact not before 1610].
Folio. Three parts in one volume. [5], 42 pl.; [4], 43 pl.; [5], 32 pl.
Collates: π, X, A-B1, 42 ll; A-B1, 43 ll; a-b1, [c]1, 32 ll.
Getty: [14] p., 32, 43, 42 leaves of plates.
Contemporary vellum… Read More

Founding Royal ordinance for the Corps of Invalids of New Spain
Antonio Maria Bucareli y Ursua (1717-1779, Viceroy of New Spain).
Reglamento formado para el cuerpo de invalidos de Nueva España por el Excmo. Sr. Bailio Fr. D. Antonio Maria Bucareli y Ursua Virrey Governador y Capitan General de ella, aprobado por S. M. en Real Orden de trece de Junio de 1773.
Mexico City, Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1774.
Folio. [2], 19, [1 blank] pp. Collates: π, A-D2, π.
With the woodcut Royal coat of arms on the title. Signature of Viceroy Bucareli in ink on the final page.
Modern stiff marbled paper covers, leaves remargined in order to match the size of the volume. In linen made-to-measure case with title on front.
Very rare first and only edition of the founding document for the establishment of the Corps of Invalids in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. This Royal ordinance marks a crucial step in the military organisation of the Spanish Americas and greatly expanded the colonial military presence there.The Cuerpo de… Read More