{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":48334,"auction_id":97,"set_id":128,"lot_number":"62","artist":"Pedro Murillo Velarde","title":"Historia de la Provincia de Philipinas de\nla Compañía de Jesus. Segunda parte que comprehende los progresos de esta Provincia,\ndesde el año de 1616 hasta el de 1716","starting_price":80000,"signed_dated":"Manila: Imprenta del Compañía de Jesús, por D. Nicolás de la Cruz Bagay, 1749.","medium":null,"size":"size: 12\" x 8 1/4\" (30 cm x 21 cm)\ndepth: 1 1/2\" (4 cm)","property":null,"coa":"CONDITION REPORT\nSOFTBOUND \nPOOR","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Pedro Murillo Velarde is mainly known in the Philippines as the creator of the wonderful map that bears his surname and whose original name is \"Carta corográfica y geográfica de Filipinas\" (1734). Designed by him, with very stylish prints on the sides, all of them originally sculpted in copper by Filipino artists, it is one of the most coveted maps by collectors from all over the world. \nThe copy that belonged to Dr. Benito Legarda is truly extraordinary, not only because of its excellent state of preservation, despite the delicate paper on which it was printed, but also because it contains two exceptional engravings that are often auctioned separately. As early as 1906, the bibliographer Retana noted how difficult it was to find a copy with both engravings. The first is a reproduction in a smaller scale of his well-known map, sculpted by the Philippine printer Nicolás de la Cruz Bagay. The second one features Virgen de la Rosa, of much devotion in the then town of San Pedro Makati, and Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Buen Viaje, patroness of Antipolo, a work of Tagalog artist Lorenzo Atlas.\nThis is the second Jesuit history of the archipelago, after Labor Evangélica (Madrid, 1663), by Father Francisco Colín, and covers the years 1616-1716, as the title indicates. The first and third parts focus on the actions of the Jesuits in the Philippines, the second part is focused on the missions of Mindanao and Sulu, while the fourth part speaks of the vicissitudes of the Society in the Mariana Islands and the discovery of the Palau Islands. Unlike other ecclesiastical chronicles, he does not focus only on missionary activities and devotes much attention to the decisions of the governors — whom he often judges harshly— as well as naval battles against piracy and the Dutch, revolts of the Sangleyes and civil affairs in general. It is a historiographical masterpiece that deserves to be fully translated for Filipino readers.\nMurillo Velarde has been defined as \"undoubtedly one of the men of the greatest intellectual power and with the most extensive culture that there has been in the Philippines\". A great number of the books that were printed in the Philippines during those years bear his approval.\nMurillo Velarde was born in the province of Almería in 1696. After studying grammar, philosophy and history, he entered the Society of Jesus in Madrid in 1718. He arrived in the Philippines in 1723 and was assigned from the beginning to teaching duties, working at the Colegio de San José and at the University of Manila. He also always enjoyed high administrative positions within the hierarchy of the Society of Jesus, and focused on defending the indigenous people. He was an extraordinarily prolific writer and published manuals for parish priests, novenas, a canon law course in Latin, poetry and theater. His erudition was encyclopedic and he stood out above all as a historian, a task to which he dedicated his last years. After publishing this Historia in 1749, he traveled to Spain to recruit new missionaries. In 1752, before embarking back to the Philippines, in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, he committed suicide. That same year his Geographia Historica (Madrid, 1752) was published in ten volumes, the eighth volume of which includes an excellent description of the Philippines.\nFrom the historical, literary and bibliographical points of view, the present Historia de Murillo Velarde is one of the most extraordinary works of the entire Spanish colonial period.","lot_group":"BOOKS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":2800000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":2800000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":3364480,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":48191,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/97/128/lot/62.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":48182,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/97/128/lot/62 b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":48181,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/97/128/lot/62 a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":61,"next":63,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}