[Salazar, Joseph de]:

$2,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

CRISIS DEL ENSAYO A LA HISTORIA DE LA FLORIDA. A very scarce contemporary refutation of Barcia Carballido y Zuniga's historic ENSAYO CRONOLOGICO of 1723. This work is attributed by Rich and most who followed to Don Joseph de Salazar, who was a historiographer of Spain and the West Indies and who apparently felt threatened by the great success and quality of Barcia's work. His point-by-point response is minutely detailed, but appears to have had little to no impact on the reputation of Barcia or his vaunted history. Salazar, who signs his prologue "A Stranger," immediately makes his feelings clear by opening this work as follows: "Señor mio. As you are an Algebraist of the Spanish language, you will not be ignorant of the Castellan proverb which says: 'A cada Puerco le llega su San Martin'" (our translation). The proverb, roughly translated as "Every pig gets his San Martín," refers to the traditional sacrifice of a pig near that festival day and suggests that a person who has acted in bad faith will sooner or later face the consequences.Quite rare in the trade: the most recent auction record on Rare Book Hub is from 1967, when this very copy was sold at the Parke Bernet sale of material from the inventory of Edward Eberstadt & Sons, where it brought $350. No other copy is listed until one offered at Anderson Galleries in 1935.

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