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(MEXICO—1790.)
Estado general de la poblacion de Mexico capital de
Nueva España, año de 1790, dividida en ocho quarteles mayores, y subdividida
en treinta y dos menores.
Letterpress broadside, 30 x 43 cm; minor foxing, 5 worm-
holes, wear in right margin.
[México, 1790?]
[400/600]
A summary of the important census of Mexico City ordered by the Count of Revillagigedo,
broken down by age, race, and other demographic categories.
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(MEXICO—1791.)
Obras de eloqüencia y poesia premiadas por la Real
Universidad de México.
Illustrated title page. Complex collation. 4to, contemporary
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4
calf, minor wear, lacking spine label; lacking front free endpaper, errata slip laid down on
rear free endpaper, bookplate removed from front pastedown.
México: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1791
[250/350]
Orations in honor of the coronation of Carlos IV. Medina, México 8116; Palau 197919.
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(MEXICO—1792.) Arricivita, Juan Domingo.
Crónica seráfica y apostólica
del Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz de Querétaro.
[20], 605, [8]
pages. Folio, contemporary vellum from another volume, minor wear; endpapers renewed,
marginal restoration to first 4 leaves, minor foxing, minimal dampstaining, a few pencil
notes in the margins; small inked “MM” stamps to verso of title and page 52.
México: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1792
[3,000/4,000]
Issued as a sort of sequel to Espinosa’s 1746 Chronica Apostolica (see lot 336), which
explains the “Segunda Parte” on the title page. It was followed in turn by Bringas de
Manzaneda’s 1819 “Sermon que en las solemnes honras celebradas . . . Fr. Francisco Tomás
Hermenegildo Garcés” (see lot 87).The present work is an important source on the history of
Texas and Arizona in its own right, it includes a life of Father Margil (timed to support his
bid for beatification), long descriptions of the work of Fathers Francisco Hidalgo and Francisco
Garcés, and fifty pages on the early Sonoran missions (394-444). Howes B337 (“b”—“a
major source on the early southwest”); Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 60A; Medina, México
8171; Palau 17522;Wagner, Spanish Southwest 174. None known at auction since 1994.
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