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Librería José Porrúa Turanzas 2020 Boston Virtual Book Fair

10. [KALENDARIO - GUIA POLITICA]. Guía Política de las Españas para el año de 1812
[Together with:] Estado Militar de España año de 1812 // Guía Política de las Españas
para el año de 1813 [Junto con:] Exercitos Nacionales año de 1813. Cadiz, Imprenta
Nacional, 1812-1813. 2 volumes. 8vo. -I: xv-199, 152 pp. -II: Engraved portrait, xvi-
364 pp. Artistic bindings in burgundy morocco, both cover richly decoratedand gild too-
led, king’s coat of arms stamped in gilt in the center; spines gilt. 5,500 € / US$ $6,300

Beautiful reunion of these two Spanish calendars, published here for the first time under
the title Guía Politicas de las Esañas or “Political Guide of Spain” during the Napoleonic
invasion to the Peninsla, bound in two exquisite period artistic bindings. The calendar,
which had been published uninterruptedly in Madrid since 1722, suffered the ravages of
war and during the invasion of the Napoleonic army; it didn’t appear in 1809 and 1810,
and by 1811 it leaved the printing house of D. Miguel Segovia to the Island of Leon, in
Cádiz. The text includes some patriotic ephemeris of the main events that have occu-
rred during the war against the French.

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