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(MEXICO.)
Real ordenanza para el establecimiento . . . de intendentes de
exército y provincia en el reino de la Nueva-España.
Frontispiece plate, a bit damp-
stained. [2], lx, 410, [202]. Folio, contemporary marbled calf, minor wear; lone wormhole
in outer margin, edges tinted yellow; “Sonora” inscribed on page 410, later owner’s inked
stamp on flyleaf, dealer tag on front pastedown.
Madrid, 1786
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
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Includes the appendix “Leyes de la Recopilacion de Indias” (sometimes
lacking). “This body of laws, relating to the government of Mexico and its provinces, is of the
highest importance to the student of Mexican colonial history”—Sabin 56259, 26482.
Medina BHA 5172 (best collation); Palau 202983.
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(MEXICO.)
Sammelband volume including tracts owned by the first
Bishop of Mexico, Juan de Zumárraga.
[6], 83; [70]; [8], 78; [8]; [65]; [8], 166, [1]
leaves. 6 volumes in one. 4to, modern full calf in period style; first title page worn and
restored, moderate worming, cropped with loss of some headlines, numerous early
manuscript notes (some of them cropped), minor dampstaining; inscribed “Es del obpo. de
Mexico f. io. zumarraga” on 3rd and final title pages, elaborate Cont Ricardi marca de
fuego on fore-edge.
Vp, 1490-1521
[5,000/7,500]
Juan de Zumárraga (1468-1548) was installed as México’s first bishop in 1530, and served
through his death. His term included a large number of conversions in the wake of Our Lady
of Guadalupe. Two of the tracts in this volume bear his inscription, the two written by Raulin
in 1519 and 1521. Includes the following tracts: Richardus. Doctrinale sancta ac prouide vite
quatuor memoratu digna continens. Paris: Ascensius, 1519 * Ephraem Syrus. [Sermones beati
Ephrem]. Lacks title page (supplied in manuscript). Brescia: Farfengo, 1490 * Raulin.
Doctrinale mortis venerandi. Title page in red and black, with Zumárraga inscription. Paris:
Clein, 1519 * Pope Leo I. Libellus Leonis pape de conflictu vitiorum. First 8 leaves only of a
much longer work. Paris: Rembolt, 1515 * Reginaldetus. Speculu finalis retributionis. Some
initials inked in red manuscript; leaves G3-6 with adhesive damage, final leaf supplied in
facsimile, with a copy from another volume laid in. Lyon: Trechsel, 1492 * Raulin.
Religiosissimi viri Fratris Ioanis Raulin atrium, et thologie professoris scientifici epistolarum.
Title page in red and black, with Zumárraga inscription. Paris: Petit, 1521.
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