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400
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(MEXICO—1784.)
Gazeta de Mexico.
3 plates, folding tables. 10 volumes
(volumes I-VIII, X, and XV), each containing approximately 50 8-page issues ranging from
bimonthly to biweekly. 4to, unmatched bindings, most contemporary in calf and vellum,
various conditions; most with title pages and indexes; most with small inked “MM” stamps
on verso of title and page 52.
México: Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1784-1808
[1,500/2,500]
An unmatched set of New Spain’s most important periodical of the late 18th century, complete
or nearly so for its first 12 years. Medina, México 7526; Palau 96359.
Bound at the end of Volume V is a pamphlet: Convite para los actos públicos que tendrán en el
Colegio de San Pedro y San Pablo. [2], 5 pages. México: Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1793.
401
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(MEXICO—1785.)
Group of 4 poems on the Siege of Pensacola,
Bernardo de Gálvez, and the capture of British West Florida.
4to, stitched or in
contemporary plain wrappers; only minor wear, minor dampstaining to the Fernández.
México, 1785-87
[500/750]
Antonio Buonavita. Invicti Bernardi de Galvez Novae Hispaniae proregis praconium. [2], 4
pages. Not found in Medina México, Palau, or OCLC. [México, 1785?] * Fernández de San
Salvador. La America llorando por la temprana muerte de su amado, su padre, su bien y sus
delicias el Senor B. de Galvez, 1787. Medina, México 7711; Palau 230823; Sabin 24145
* Rojas y Rocha. Poema epico, la rendicion de Panzacola y conquista de la Florida Occidental,
1785. Medina, México 7589; Palau 276044; Sabin 72805 * Valdes.Apuntes de algunas de
las gloriosas acciones del Exmó. Señor, D. Bernardo de Galvez, 1787. Medina, México 7742;
Palau 347619, Sabin 98317.
402
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(MEXICO—1785.) Gálvez, Bernardo de.
En real cédula de 10 de Marzo . . .
aprobar una poderosa compañía para el comercio de Filipinas y demas partes
de la Asia.
Letterpress broadside, 60 x 43 cm, on two conjoined sheets of sealed paper;
faint dampstaining; signed with rubric of Gálvez and by José de Gorraes as secretary.
México, 22 November 1785
[300/400]
The Viceroy of New Spain announces the formation of the Real Compañia de Filipinas to
advance trade with the Philippines and beyond, including the full text of King Carlos III’s
important decree. One copy in OCLC.
403
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(MEXICO—1785.) López de Miranda, Juan Nepomuceno.
Papel que para cor-
regir la desreglada metodo, con que se socorren los picados de alacranes . . . en
la ciudad de Durango.
[2], 6 pages. 4to, contemporary plain wrappers; minimal wear.
México: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1785
[300/400]
A pamphlet on treating scorpion stings. Guerra, Medica Mexicana 445; not found in Medina
México, Palau, or OCLC.
404
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(MEXICO—1785.) Ramírez, Antonio de Guadalupe.
Breve compendio de
todo lo que debe saber, y entender el christiano . . . dispuesto en lengua
othomi.
[18], 80 leaves. 4to, later cloth-backed boards, moderate wear, coming detached
from text block; first errata page pasted over with a blank leaf as issued, lacking the folded
“Epitome” broadside which occasionally accompanies this work.
México: Herederos del Joseph de Jáuregui, 1785
[600/900]
A guide to the Otomi language, still spoken by hundreds of thousands of people across a wide
swath of southern Mexico.The Otomi alphabet is demonstrated throughout. Medina, México
7585; Palau 246641; Pilling 3174; Sabin 67637. Not known at auction since 1995.