Gazeta Extraordinaria de Buenos-Ayres, Lunes 15 de Abril de 1811.
(Buenos Aires): (Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos), 1811. [127 - 145] pp. 8vo. Disbound in three original quires. First edition. A very good copy, old stitch holes, very faint numeral 7 inked to top margin of title page. Furlong IV: 2565. Palau 96378 (Reimpression). Zinny: p.48. Item #43697
The Gazeta, in its current form, started in 1810 with the May Revolution, was written by Mariano Moreno, and was intended to support the Junta, as well as describe events in Argentina and other neighboring countries and from Europe and the Americas. The issues with 'Extraordinaria' in the title were outside the normal publication, and issued without numbers. So important was the publication that the government ordered it read aloud at chapels after mass. The government was fluid, and Moreno was shoved aside by Cornelio Saavedra and the clergyman Gregorio Funes, who organized a second revolution that took place on April 5th and 6th. Whereas the May Revolution had been a revolution of the urban bourgeoisie, of the "decent people"- the merchant and intellectual elite, the April event mobilized urban workers and laborers for the first time on the banks of the Plaza de la Victoria in order to remove Morenistas. See Daniel Morán, "La historiografía de la revolución. La participación plebeya durante las guerras de independencia en el Perú y el Río de la Plata", Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [Online], Debates, Online since 30 May 2011]. Funes would author the communiqué in defense of the Junta, in this Gazeta Extraordinaria issue of Lunes 15 de Abril 1811: "Manifesto sobre antecedentes, y origen del suceso de la noche del 5 y 6 del corriente." Furlong notes: "Oficio de los alcaldes, a la Junta, dirigiéndole las diez y ocho peticiones del pueblo; y pidiendo su cumplimiento. Peticiones del pueblo: explicaciones. Circular que, en sustancia y con la sola diferencia de la expresión, se ha pasado a sus respectivos cabildos, por los diputados, para precaver toda siniestra prevención, Ínterin se publicaba todo lo ocurrido, para inteligencia y general satisfacción de las provincias." Issues of the Gazeta are uncommon in the trade, Gazeta Extraordinaria and early issues even more so. The only issues before 1813 that we could find were at the Sotheby's sale of May 8, 1961 (lot 64A) purchased by Maggs.
Price: $350.00