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(MEXICO—1623.)
Floresta latina, culta en honra, y alabança de dos belissi-
mas plantas, y santissimas virgines, Lucia, y Petronila.
2 full-page engravings. [51],
[1] leaves, erratically paginated. Small 8vo, contemporary stamped vellum, minor wear and
staining; pastedowns coming loose, minor dampstaining; early inscription crossed out on
title page, with small inked “MM” stamp on verso.
México: Juan Blanco de Alcázar, 1623
[3,000/4,000]
A collection of poems in Latin and Spanish by various authors. Beristain credits a similiarly
titled work of the same year, now lost, to Francisco Ramírez (see Medina 353). The printer
Blanco de Alcázar has been described as “one of the most curious figures in the history of
printing in New Spain,” and was later imprisoned for many years by the Inquisition for
printing a libelous pamphlet (see Kenneth C. Ward, “Mexico, where they coin money and print
books: the Calderón dynasty and the Mexican book trade,” University of Texas dissertation,
pages 47-48). Medina, México 350; Palau 92618. Medina cites just one copy, in a private
library, while OCLC lists one at Biblioteca Nacional de México. None known at auction.
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(MEXICO—1623.)
Nos los inquisidores contra la heretica pravedad y
apostasia en la ciudad de Mexico, estados, y pruincias desta Nuevaespaña,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Nueva Galicia, Yucatan, Islas, Philippinas, y sus
cercanias.
Letterpress broadside with decorative border and woodcut initial, 41.5 x 31 cm;
minor worming, small tear in left margin, minimal dampstaining in right margin; signed in
manuscript by Mexican inquisitors Juan Gutiérrez Flores and Francisco Bazan de
Albornoz.
[México?], 3 August 1623
[2,000/3,000]
An edict issued by the Inquisition. Among other things, it orders that certain passages be deleted
from all copies of two European books: Nancel’s Trachyeni Noviodunensis (Paris, 1611) and
Espinel’s Relaciones de la Vida del Escudero Marcos de Obregon (Madrid, 1618). This broad-
side does not appear in Medina, México or Palau; none in OCLC; none known at auction.
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