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(MEXICO—1729.) Peralta,Antonio de.
Dissertationes scholasticae de S. Joseph.
2 full-page illustrations. [28], 219, [4] pages. 12mo, contemporary vellum, minor wear;
moderate worming, minor dampstaining; marca de fuego on top edge, early inscription on
front free endpaper. First edition. Medina, México 3086; Palau 218002; Sabin 60846.
Mexico: Bernardo de Hogal, 1729
[200/300]
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(MEXICO—1731.)
Compendio de noticias mexicanas . . . en la impression
de las gazetas de Mexico.
[12] (of 32), 3-295 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn,
sticker on backstrip; lacking all 10 index leaves and first leaf of Issue #1, dampstaining to
preliminaries; early owner’s inscriptions on endpapers and title page, small inked “MM”
stamps on verso of title and page 52.
[México: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1728-31]
[800/1,200]
Issues 1 through 37 of the monthly Gazeta de Mexico, January 1728 to December 1730,
issued in one volume with a collective title and preliminaries. The editor was Juan Francisco
Sahagún de Arévalo. The Gazeta was the first periodical in New Spain, and these issues were
preceded only by a handful issued in 1722. Medina, México 2979; Palau 285011; Sabin
48483 (“extremely rare and curious, being a collection of the first regular newspaper established
in Spanish America”), 74944. None known at auction since 1986.
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(MEXICO—1731.) Espinosa, Isidro Félix de.
El cherubin custodio de el arbol
de la vida, la Santa Cruz de Queretaro.
Portrait plate by Joaquin Sotomayor. [24], 216
pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; front edges of first few leaves
a bit ragged with a few marginal repairs, minor worming in top margins, index leaf bound
with preliminaries rather than at end.
México: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1731
[1,000/1,500]
A biography of Antonio de los Angeles, a Franciscan lay cleric in Queretaro. The author had
previously served as a missionary in Texas. Medina, México 3173; Palau 82700. Provenance:
Sloan auction, 16 February 2005, lot 20; no other copies known at auction.
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