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(MEXICO—1769.) Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio.
Concilios provinciales
primero, y segundo * Concilium Mexicanum provinciale III.
Illustrated title pages
in red and black, and other copper-plate illustrations by Villavicencio. [10], 396, [12]; [12],
328, [4], [2], 141, [4] pages. 2 volumes. Folio, unmatched vellum and full calf, minor wear;
minor foxing, minor dampstaining in first volume, lacking free endpapers in second volume.
In a modern cloth slipcase.
Mexico: Joseph Antonio Hogal, 1769, 1770
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION THUS
.
“The first Council was originally printed in 1556, at Mexico . . .
Besides the two Councils, the first volume contains an account of the Prelates of the Mexican
Church”—Sabin 42063. On the second volume: “This collection of Mexican Councils is of
importance as containing those of 1555 and 1565, nowhere else to be found”—Sabin 42064,
42066. This second volume is bound with “Statuta ordinata a sancto concilio provinciali
Mexicano III,” as issued. Medina, Mexico 5299, 5361; Palau 142387, 142389.
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(MEXICO—1769.) Rodriguez, José Manuel.
Vida prodigiosa del V. siervo de
Dios Fray Sebastian de Aparicio.
Portrait plate by Casanova. 4to, contemporary
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4
calf,
minor wear; moderate foxing; early inscription on verso of title page.
México: Phelipe de Zuñiga y Ontiveros, 1769
[300/400]
FIRST EDITION
.
A life of the notable 16th-century Franciscan friar in México. Medina,
México 5312 (does not call for a plate); Palau 272984.
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(MEXICO—1770.) Cortes, Hernando; and Francesco Lorenzana.
[Historia de
Nueva-España.]
2 folding maps, 33 (of 34) plates. [18] (of 20), xvi, 400, [18] pages. Folio,
contemporary
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calf, crudely rejointed; lacking title page and calendar plate, some other
plates laid down or remounted; later bookplate of Grace Nicholson on front pastedown,
small inked “MM” stamps on verso of first leaf and page 52.
[México: Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770]
[2,000/3,000]
“
An important and highly esteemed work, containing the celebrated letters of Cortez to the
Emperor Charles V . . . illustrated with copious notes and documents, together with facsimiles of
the Mexican mode of representing the tributes paid by the different towns in Mexico”—JCB
III:1750. Medina, México 5380; Palau 142408; Pilling 898; Sabin 16938.
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