Hispania Rare Books
Antiquarian Books from the Hispanic world
Welcome
Based in London I have been buying and selling books for more than twenty years. I am of Spanish-American ancestry and naturally my area of interest has always been books from or about the Spanish speaking world. Within this field I an especially interested in Spain’s golden age books and in nineteen century books from the newly created American Republics.
Every book tells more than one story. So, sometimes a book provenance and cultural context is as important as the copy specific description.
If you would like to know more about any of the books listed please contact us.
Jorge Luis Borges
The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary…. More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.
-10 November 1941
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We are always interested in acquiring rare books, from single volumes to entire collections. Please get in touch if you would like to sell books or collections