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GRAN COLOMBIA-REVOLUTION ERA] Group of works, mostly in English, comprising SEMPLE, ROBERT. Sketch of the Present State of Caracas. London: Baldwin, 1812. First edition. Contemporary half calf. 7 x 4 5/8 inches (18.2 x 12 cm); viii, 176 pp., Bookplate of Sir Joseph Verdin, joint split, good copy, contains a chapter devoted to Venezuelan War of Independence. Palau 307445; Sabin 79088; Interesting Official Documents relating to the United Provinces of Venezuela or Documentos interesantes relativos a Caracas (from engraved title). London: 1812. First edition, printed in Spanish and English, 309 pp., early half leather. Sabin 34898; Palau 120834; PALACIO, MANUEL. Outline of the Revolution in Spanish America. London: 1817. First edition, original boards, backstrip renewed, with errata slip, original boards, an uncut copy. Sabin 58265; another copy, also in early boards, uncut; TORRENTE, MARIANO. Historia de la Revolucion Hispano Americana. Madrid: 1829. First edition. 3 volumes. Modern half leather, with three folding maps and one plan only of a larger amount, one replaced in facsimile, worming and wear; DAUXION, LAVAYSSE. A Statistical, Commercial, and Political Description of Venezuela, Trinidad, Margarita, and Tobago. London: 1820. First edition. Full modern morocco gilt, with folding map which is foxed; And HALL, COLONEL FRANCIS. Colombia: Its Present State. London: 1827. Second edition. Later half morocco. Folding map. Interesting early works, mostly in English, relating to the early years of the independence movement. The volumes. C