177 242
365
●
(MEXICO—1761.) Memmi, Juan Baptista.
Vida del Padre Francisco Maria
Galluzzi de la Compania de Jesus.
Portrait plate by Morales. [8], [256] pages. 4to,
contemporary vellum, minor wear; minor dampstaining on top edge.
México: Colegio de San Ildefonso, 1761
[700/1,000]
First Mexican edition of a 1734 Italian work, translated by Bernardo Pazuengos. Medina,
México 4736; Palau 160585. None known at auction.
366
●
(MEXICO—1762.) Díaz de Arce, Juan.
Libro de la vida del proximo
evangelico, el vener. Padre Bernardino Alvarez.
2 (of 3) plates. [12], 464, [7] pages.
4to, later
1
/
4
morocco, moderate wear; slip of paper covering one line on first preliminary
page, minor foxing, moderate worming toward rear.
México: Christóbal y Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1762
[300/400]
Second edition. Life of the 16th-century founder of the first psychiatric hospital in the Americas.
Medina, México 4775; Palau 72257. None of either edition known at auction since 1947.
Bound with a related Spanish imprint: Regla de San Augustin Obispo. Third edition, 170,
[2], 19 pages. Engraved title page, plus second title page reading “Actas hechas por la religion
de N. Padre San Juan de Dios”; final leaf lacking blank lower corner. Palau 254033.
[Madrid, 1733].
367
●
(MEXICO—1764.) Braun, Bartholomé.
Carta del P. Bartholome Braun
visitador de la provincia Tarahumara . . . Glandorff. sobre la apostolica vida,
virtudes, y santa muerte del P. Francisco Hermano Glandorff.
[2], 33, [1] pages. 4to,
disbound; minor soiling and foxing to title page, otherwise quite clean; small inked MM
stamp to verso of title page.
México: Colegio de San Ildefonso, 1764
[5,000/7,500]
Father Glandorff was a longtime Jesuit missionary among the Tamahumara of northwestern
México who died in 1763. Medina, México 4892; Palau 34589; Sabin 7446; Wagner,
Spanish Southwest 143 (“contains many examples of Father Glandorff’s marvelous experi-
ences”). None known at auction; Eberstadt offered a copy for $3,000 in 1963.
365
367