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63 comedias sueltas — Spanish Theater of the Golden Age
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Three-volume sammelband of comedias sueltas. Barcelona, Salamanca, Sevilla, & Valencia: various publishers/printers, ca. 1760–82. Small 4to (19.6–21 cm, 7.75"–8.25"). 3 vols.
$9500.00
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Priest and Golden Age playwright Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–81) was born in Madrid, where he received religious training before turning to dramatic writing in his early twenties. His first dramas for the stage (“Amor, honor y poder” and “Selvas de amor”) were performed in 1623. This collection of 61 plays (plus two by Agustín Moreto, in the third vol.) comprises half of Don Pedro's total comedias, the largest part of his oeuvre, which also includes some poetry, 20 minor plays, and 80 autos sacramentales.
These comedias combine elements of contemporary politics (for example, “Amor, honor y poder” and “La cisma del Ingalterra” both concern English royalty and are, incidentally, Don Pedro's only two plays set in England), family dynamics (e.g., “Andromeda y Perseo,” “La hija del ayre”), and personal biography:
In 1629 an actor stabbed Don Pedro's brother and sought refuge in a local convent. Don Pedro, pursuing the villain, insulted the resident nuns and drew attention from the Trinitarian preacher Fray Hortensio Paravicino, who attacked the playwright in a public sermon. Although Don Pedro's play “El principe costante” had already been approved for the stage, he (illegally) added lines mocking the royal priest. For this blasphemy, defamation, and lèse-majesté, not to mention subverting the censor, the playwright was sentenced to brief house arrest — mild punishment for an amusing crime.
Some titles include information about when and where plays were originally performed.
Provenance & Evidence of Readership: In each volume, the ink presentation inscription “W.A. Sanford to E.C.A. Sanford” on the front fly-leaf is followed by an index in the same 19th-century hand. Vol. II also has a typed index.
A full list of the plays is available upon request.
See Bergman & Szmuk, Comedias Sueltas; McKnight & Jones, Catalogue of Comedias Sueltas; and Sullivan & Bershas, Comedias Sueltas; Don W. Cruickshank, Don Pedro Calderón. Early 19th-century vellum over boards with binder's sticker on front pastedown and ink title to spines; spine vellum of vol. I significantly torn. Nearly all of the comedias are trimmed close at the margins, many with loss to signature marks and occasionally a bottom line of text; some age-toning, stains, occasional water damage, and foxing. Where colophons are affected, dates have been supplied using the aforementioned references. (29317)
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Eight Comedias sueltas by
Calderón de la Barca
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. [drop-title] Comedia famosa. El alcalde de Zalamea. [colophon: Valencia: en la Imprenta de Joseph, y Thomàs de Orga, 1782]. Small 4to. 32 pp.
$1200.00
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“N.279” in the upper left corner of the first page, and “Pag. I” in the upper right.
In addition to the first title, this sammelband contains seven other comedias sueltas by Calderón de la Barca, in order as follows: [drop-title] Comedia famosa. El pintor de su deshonra. [colophon: Barcelona: En la Imprenta de Carlos Sapera, 1766]. [18] ff. “Num. 82” in upper right corner of the first page. [drop-title] Comedia famosa. La exaltacion de la cruz. [colophon: Barcelona: En la Imprenta de Francisco Suriá, 1771]. [18] ff. “Num.76” in upper right corner of the first page. [drop-title] Comedia famosa. Fuego de Dios en el querer bien. [colophon: Barcelona: Por Francisco Suria y Burgada], no date [ca. 1770]. [18] ff. “Num. 74” in upper right corner of the first page. [drop-title] Comedia famosa. Auristela y Lisidante. Fiesta que se representó á SS. MM. en el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. [colophon: Barcelona: Por Francisco Suriá y Burgada], no date [ca. 1770]. [22] ff. “Num. 73.” in upper right corner of the first page. [drop-title] Comedia famosa. El segundo Scipion. Fiesta que se representó á los años del Rey nuestro Señor Don Carlos Segundo. [colophon: Barcelona: Por Francisco Suria y Burgada], no date [ca. 1770]. [20] ff. “Num. 75.” in upper right corner of the first page. [drop-title] Comedia famosa. La desdicha de la voz. [colophon: Barcelona: Por Francisco Suria y Burgada], no date [ca. 1770]. [22] ff. “Num. 81” in upper right corner of the first page. [drop-title] Comedia famosa. Darlo todo, y no dar nada. Fiesta, que se representó à SS. MM. en el Salon de su Palacio. [colophon: Barcelona: Por Francisco Suria y Burgada], no date [ca. 1780]. [20] ff. “Num. 80=” in upper right corner of the first page.
Provenance: Francis H. Bacon (modern bookplate, front pastedown).
On the comedias sueltas, see: Bergman & Szmuk, Comedias Sueltas; McKnight & Jones, Catalogue of Comedias Sueltas; Sullivan & Bershas, Comedias Sueltas. On Calderon, see: Don W. Cruickshank, Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1973). Brown calf triple-ruled in gilt and stamped in a blind fern pattern along the border (joints splitting); spine gilt with “Comedias de Calderon,” “Tom. IX.,” and “Madrid 1726" in three of seven compartments otherwise containing gilt fleurons within a blind-stamped flower pattern; gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers in a stone pattern and matching marbled edges. Front flyleaf detached. Occasional spots and dampstaining, a few natural paper flaws and a few negligible wormholes; age-toning, heavier in some comedias than others. Trimmed close shaving some headlines and catchwords, but
overall nice. (29852)
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The Order of Procession for Iturbide's Coronation
Campos y Rivas, Manuel del. Broadsheet. Begins: Orden del acompañamiento desde Palacio á la Santa Iglesia Catedral Metropolitana; y desde esta á su regreso al mismo Palacio en la mañana del dia de la inauguracion, bendicion y coronacion de SS. MM. el Emperador Agustin primero, y su Esposa Ana Maria, Emperatriz del Imperio de Anahuac, arreglado por el Gefe del Ceremonial. Mexico: Impr. Imperial del Sr. Valdes, 1822. Folio. [1] f.
$1100.00
Dated in the text 29 June 1822, this is the published order of procession for the inauguration of Iturbide as Emperor of Mexico. The actual date of the inauguration had not yet
been set.
Sutro 284. One small pin-type wormhole, costing one letter. Very clean and nice. (27251)
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On Government & on Old Gold Coinage
Cantos Benítez, Pedro de. Escrutinio de maravedises, y monedas de oro antiguas, su valor, reduccion, y cambio a las monedas corrientes. Deducido de escrituras, leyes, y pragmaticas antiguas, y modernas de España. Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1763. 4to (21.5 cm; 8.5"). 123, 171 pp.
$450.00
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An interesting pairing of productions: The first section (to p. 123) is a history and defense of the Consejo de Castilla, while the second portion is the history of ancient gold coins of the Iberian peninsula and methods of calculating their worth!
Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, II, 39; Palau 42732. Contemporary vellum over paste boards, lacking the ties, with some vellum lost; old ownership stamp eradicated from title-page. A bit of old spotting/staining; generally, though, a good clean volume. (28583)
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From the Library of the Capuchin Nuns of Mexico City
Capuchin Nuns. Regla de la gloriosa santa Clara, con las constituciones de las monjas Capuchinas del santissimo crucifixo de Roma, reconocidas, y reformadas por el Padre General de los Capuchinos y con las adiciones a los estatutos de dicha regla.... Mexico: Reimpressa en la Imprenta del Lic. Don Joseph de Jauregui, n.d. [ca. 1760–75]. 16mo (15 cm; 6'). [4] ff., 234 pp.
$750.00
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A later Mexican printing of the Rule and Constitution of the Poor Clares (a.k.a, Capuchin Nuns) in Mexico, earlier New World editions having appeared in 1646 and 1720 (with others to follow this undated one in 1773 and 1817). The Poor Clares, officially “The Order of Saint Clare,” are a contemplative branch of the Franciscan order that St. Clare of Assisi founded in 1212. The order's mission is to pray for the needs of the church, the world, and all people who are in need. As part of the last, they pray for intervention in medical and mental matters for those suffering from maladies.
This edition is graced with four charming historiated woodcut initials: “I,” “C,” “R,” and “L.”
Provenance: On verso of the front free endpaper in an 18th-century hand is a note that the the book belonged to the Capuchin Convent of Mexico City in 1787.
Medina, Mexico, 9208. Publisher's limp vellum with ties, fore-edge of rear cover rodent-gnawed with a corner lost and both covers with part of lower edge likewise gnawed but in limited way; the hungry rodent also nibbled along the fore-edges of pp. 213 to 234, minimally and with remarkable neatness. Ownership notation as indicated. A good, clean volume. (29589)
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One of CHILE’s
“Padres de la Patria”
ALS with an
Edgar Allan Poe Connection
Carrera, José Miguel de. Autograph Letter Signed to Henry Didier. In Spanish, on paper. Montevideo: 12 December 1817. Small 4to (24.5 cm x 9.5"). [2] pp., with integral address leaf.
$2800.00
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Carrera writes of events in Uruguay, of war news from Peru, of O’Higgins, of various family members and acquaintances who remain prisoners, and of the cabildo elections in Buenos Aires.
Writer Carrera: From one of the leading families of Chile, José Miguel Carrera led the successful coup de etat of 15 November 1811 that overthrew the Junta de Gobierno that was established in the political void after the capture of the king of Spain. As sole leader of the nation he created the first Chilean constitution, designed the first Chilean flag and coat of arms, and was responsible for bringing the first printing press to Chile. Disagreement with the Lautaro Lodge of the Masons led to his overthrow by Bernardo O’Higgins and the rift never healed, eventually leading to Carrera’s exile in Argentina, the U.S., and later Uruguay. His brothers fell into the hands of O’Higgins who had them executed.
Recipient Didier: Henry Didier was the godfather of Edgar Allan Poe’s older brother, William Henry; he was to take the boy into his home for some years, though accounts differ as to whether this happened immediately after the death of the Poe children's parents (1811) or after the death of their guardian grandfather (1816). He ran a counting house in Baltimore and William Henry worked there as a young man. Though the Poe brothers' intimacy varied due to circumstances over the years, clearly Edgar knew Didier; he would surely have visited his brother at the Didier house.
On Uruguay: “Las cosas continuan en el mismo estado. Los Portugueses no han recivido refuerzo despues de los 500 Pernambucanos. Artigas se mantiene firme, esta guarnicion no se mueve. El Rey ha escrito para que el Gobierno de Buenos Ayres se desida.”
On Argentina: “Buenos Ayres continua tranquilo, está entretenido en la eleccion del nuevo cavildo que se verificará a fines del presente.”
On Peru: “En el Perú no hay novedad considerable. [L]os españoles tienenel aquella costa 11 buques de guerra, inclusas dos de 44, pero esto no estorbó al Berg.n chileno el Aguila. . . . No pasa de 9000 veteranos el Ex[erci]to en aquel pais, aseguran que llegando los buques de guerra de Estados Unidos piensan atacar a Arequipa y seguir a Lima; no lo creo por ahora.”
On O’Higgins: “O’Higgins sigue mandando el Ex[erci]to y Brayer es sus m[ay]or gene]ral. — Pueyrredon ha mandado a esta un comisionado para que alcance de Leon que se me eche de aqui; Leon constante en su amistad y systema se negó despresiando al comisionado.”
On Prisoners: “Mi viejo Padre, 85 años de edad, ha estado incomunicado 17 dias, y ultimamente sigue su arresto en casa. . . . Mis hermanos presos aun, y lo mismo muchos de nuestros compatriotas. . . . Mr. Handle continua en su prision con todos sus oficiales y tripulacion.”
Very good condition. Written in a very clear hand. (24646)
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History
of the Jews in Spain
Castro,
Adolfo de. Historia de los judíos en España,desde
los tiempos de su establecimiento hasta principios del presente siglo. Cádiz
: Imprenta, librería y litografía de la Revista Médica,
1847. 12mo. 224, 29 pp.
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“Apéndice” contains “Instrucción de príncipes del modo con que se gobiernan los Padres de la Compañía;” “Carta escrita al rey Feiipe II en 18 de febrero de 1571 en Amberes por Benito Arias Montano;” “Noticias de Arias Montano.”
Provenance: Library stamp on title-page of a Jesuit residence in Mallorca.
Publisher's acid-stained sheep, abrasions to front cover; gilt spine. Library stamp as above; front free endpaper and half-title with old stains, otherwise expectable age-toning only. (28722)
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Comic Entremeses by
un Famoso Comediante
Castro, Francisco de. Libro nuevo, de entremeses, intitulado: Comico festejo. [Madrid: Impr. de Gabriel del Barrio, 1742]. Small 8vo (15 cm; 6"). Vol. II only of 2. [8] ff., 144 pp.
$1800.00
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Sole edition of a work little represented in libraries in the U.S. or Spain. Castro is identified on the title-page as “representante (que fuè) de una de las compañias de este corte,” while the man responsible for seeing the work through the press, Joseph de Ribas, is “sucessor en su parte, en una de las compañias.” Castro was the better noted of the two comic actors involved in this publication.
The entremeses in vol. I (which volume is not present) were previously published in Castro's 1702 Primera parte de Alegria comica, but those in this volume are by other (unidentified) comics and ard
here for the first time. The entremeses in this volume are: “El Gallego silletero,” “La Rueda y los Cobielos, 2a parte,” “Los locos,” “El Enmendador,” “Pedro Grullo y Anton Pintado,” “La Lámina,” “Las Brujas, 2a parte,” “El duelo del vejete,” “La casa de los linajes,” “La Burla del Herrero,” “El Sacristan niño,” and “El Hombre muger.”
Searches of WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only one U.S. library reporting ownership of this work and it has both volumes. Searches of the Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico and the OPAC of the BNE find only three libraries in Spain owning both volumes and only three other libraries owning either volume alone. Palau says “Los dos tomos completos y en buen estado son raros.”
An important and clearly rare compilation of post–Golden Age theater.
Palau 48691; Aguilar 2362. On Castro, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 198, frames 417–24. Modern medium brown morocco, gilt double-rule border on both covers, gilt spine extra, single gilt rule on board edges. Gilt inner dentelles, gilt pattern endpapers, top edge gilt, blue silk place marker. Light age-toning in some sections, by nature of paper; a few pages with small natural paper flaws; some leaves lightened across their lower outer corners; and otherwise the stray stain only. This is a very nice copy. (29144)
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Snakes
Lost
Civilizations
& an
Adventuresome
Artist
Catherwood, Frederick. Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. London: Frederick Catherwood, 1844. Folio extra. 25 colored plates.
$50,000.00
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The images above show mattings; images below are “close-ups.”
Before Indiana Jones stirred our imagination about lost civilizations and their treasures, there were Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens, whose explorations of the Maya ruins of Central America, Chiapas, and the Yucatan excited the Anglo-American world in the middle of the 19th century and helped spur the rediscovery of the Maya among the non–romance language nations. And it was Catherwood's illustrations that fixed forever what the temples and other buildings looked like to the Victorian-era and later visitors to the area.
Following the great success of Catherwood & Stephens' s two accounts of their travels in Maya land, Catherwood decided to convert his drawings to large-scale luxury prints, the illustrations in the two travel accounts having been in octavo format. In England he enlisted a crew of the best lithographers to transform his camera lucida drawings to grand, eye-filling lithographs, with George B. Moore, William Parrott, Thomas Shotter Boys, and Henry Warren among those putting the images on stone; he had no one less than Owen Jones design and accomplish the title-page, chromolithographed in red, blue, and gold.
This set of images is of the very rare colored issue on card stock.
Hill, Pacific Voyages, rev. ed., 263; Palau 50290; Sabin 11520; Tooley, English Books with Coloured Plates, 133. Plates were removed long ago from their binding (not present) and sold as a set of plates; all have been expertly conserved (conservator's report provided) and mounted on acid-free board, now housed in a custom clamshell case. The plates have been trimmed within the images by between one tenth and three tenths of an inch in each direction, letterpress descriptions and map lacking; the plates are
handsome beyond easy imagining and fascinating in the detail and care of their coloring. (29366)

Wanting to Canonize Palafox y Mendoza, offering a
Bibliography of His Writings
Catholic Church. Congregatio Sacrorum Rituum. Decretum oxomen. beatificationis, & canonizationis Ven. servi Dei Joannis de Palafox et Mendoza, episcopi prius angelopolitani & postea oxomen. Matriti: Typis Andreae Ortega, 1761. Folio (29.5 cm; 11.5"). 8 pp.
$500.00
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First Madrid printing. Palafox y Mendoza was the archbishop and viceroy of Mexico who came into serious conflict when trying to bring the religious orders under his control. Efforts to canonize him began in 1726 and continue to this day. The present work is part of that effort; it includes a list of his sermons and writings.WorldCat locates only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership.
Palau 209844; Medina, BHA, 3925; not in Sabin but see 58289 for the 1767 Puebla printing. Removed from a bound volume; old sewing holes visible in inner margin. Very good condition. (28194)
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Uncut Copy
Catholic
Church. Liturgy & ritual. Masses.
[drop-title] Die XVIII. martii. In festo S. Braulii episcopi caesar-augustani,
et confessoris. Duplex. [Mexico: no publisher/printer, ca. 1750]. 4to (21.5
cm; 8.5"). [4] ff.
$165.00
Uncut copy of the duplex office in the celebration of the mass on the feast of St. Braulius, bishop of Zaragoza (590–651).
Not in Medina, Mexico. Folded twice but never bound. Uncut. (24565)
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Franciscan Prayers During Lent
Catholic Church. Liturgy & ritual. Commemorationes, seu suffragia sanctorum Ordinis Minorum S.P.N. Francisci, quae dicuntur in fine vesperarum & laudum, ab octava Epiphaniae usque ad Dominicam Passionis exlusivè; & ab octava Pentecostes usque ad Adventum exclusivè in Dominicis. Mexici: Ex Typographia Matritensi, [ca. 1770]. 12mo. [12] ff.
$195.00
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Prayers and responses for the masses specified in the title.WorldCat locates only four copies in the U.S., but we know of one other.
Medina, Mexico, 8973. Sewn as issued with original plain wrappers and with later green marbled wrappers. One pin hole from front to rear occasionally affecting one letter. (27224)
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Uncut
Bifolium
Catholic
Church. Liturgy & ritual. [drop-title]
Die XXVII. augusti. In festo Sancti Josephi Calasanctii a Matre Dei. Scolarum
piarum fundatoris, duplex. [Mexico City: 1790–1800]. Folio. [1] f.
$185.00

Printed here is the text of the changes to be introduced into the mass specified in the title. Offered here is a bifolium containing two copies of the decree, meant to be separated but never cut. Uncut bifolia are extremely rare.
This is handsomely printed!
Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien; not in González de Cossío, 510. Folded once and never bound. Crisp. (24584)
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A
Gracious
Papal Concession
Nicely Printed
Catholic
Church. Pope, 174058 (Benedictus XIV).
[drop-title] Carissimo in Christo filio nostro Ferdinando, Hispaniarum Regi
Catholico. Benedictus PP. XIV. [Matritii?, 1753].Folio (28.4 cm, 11.375"). [4]
ff.
$850.00
In this apostolic letter sent to Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, Benedict
XIV notes that the papal nuncio in Madrid has been misinforming the clergy via
various communications about the terms of the Concordat of 11 Jan. 1753. The
Pope reaffirms each and every agreement in that document, granting greater powers
to the Spanish crown in the matter of clerical appointments. Benedict has been
much criticized for this concessionthough it must be admitted in his favor
that a break between Spain and the Holy See would have been disastrous for the
Church.
This
bilingual
edition is printed in two columns, the original Latin text of the Apostolic
letter is on the left and a Spanish translation is on the right. This important
item in Spanish and Vatican diplomatic history is rare.
No
copies were found on OCLC or RLIN, or in
NUC Pre-1956.
Not in Palau. On Benedict XIV, see New Catholic Encyclopedia,
II, 278. Removed from a nonce volume. Paper generally clean and crisp with
a few spots of soiling.
YES:
Your Majesty May Tax the Clergy
Catholic Church.
Pope, 172430 (Benedictus XIII). [drop title] A tergo.
Charissimo in Christo filio nostro Philippo, Hispaniarum Regi Catholico. Intus.
Benedictus Papa XIII. [Matritii, 1728]. Folio (28.3 cm, 11.375"). 4 ff.
$800.00

Benedict XIII in this Apostolic letter to Philip V of Spain authorizes
the king to include the clergy and religious along with the laity under the
new tax for the defense of his realms. Attractively produced by its anonymous
printer, it bears a fine woodcut initial on p. 1.
This copy is notarized, i.e., authenticated, sealed, and signed, "In Madrid,
a true copy, Manuel St. Martin, Apostolic notary." No copies were found on
OCLC or RLIN, or in NUC Pre-1956.
Not in Palau. On Benedict XIII, see New Catholic Encyclopedia,
II, 276-77. Removed from a nonce volume. Paper generally clean and crisp with
but a few spots of soiling; closed tear from bottom margin into the last two
lines of text, without loss of letters. Inked paraph on lower inner corners,
and inked notation on upper outer corner of first page.
Sowing
Good Seeds
Catholic
Church. Province of Mexico City (Mexico). Concilio
Provincial (4th, 1771). Catecismo para uso de los párrocos.
Hecho por el IV. Concilio provincial mexicano, celebrado año de M.DCC.LXXI.
Mexico: En la Imprenta de el Lic. D. Josef de Jaúregui, 1772. 4to (19.5
cm; 7.5"). [4] ff., 504 pp., plt.
[SOLD]
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The first Spanish-language catechism
planned, written, and authorized in Mexico. Archbishop Lorenzana (S.J., 1722–1804) of Mexico was a reformer, innovator, and patron of the printing arts. In 1771 he presided over the Fourth Mexican Concilium, the first such grand conclave since the 16th century. One of the products of the meetings was a new catechism for the Mexican secular clergy, based solidly on the catechism created by the Council of Trent but also incorporating changes suggested by later synods such as that of Plasencia. Not a piece of light reading, it is designed for the well-educated priest who has questions of his own about accepted doctrine or who is faced with nonstandard questions posed by parishioners.
Following the title-page is a full-page copper-engraved plate by Navarro interpreting Matthew 13:27 concerning the sowing of good seeds.
Medina, Mexico, 5472. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties. Worming in lower and inner margins of first portion of volume, not touching text; clean. (29480)
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Rules for the Choir
Catholic Church. Province of Mexico City (Mexico). Concilio Provincial (3rd, 1585). Statuta Ecclesiae Mexicanae necnon Ordo in choro servandus curante Vallisoletanae Ecclesiae capitulo sumptus suppeditante. Mexici: Apud Marianum Zunnigam, et Ontiverium, 1797. Folio (27.5 cm; 11"). [1], 140 pp., [2] ff.
$950.00
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Fray Antonio de San Miguel, the bishop of Michoacan, reprints the statutes promulgated by the Third Mexican Provincial Council (1585) and the “Ordo servandus in choro” of Archbishop Alonso de Montúfar (fl. 1512–70). The archbishop originally established these 42 rules on proper organization and deportment for the choir of the Cathedral of Mexico City. The bishop of Michoacan undoubtedly wished to bring some of this order to his own bishopric and cathedral.
Uncommon. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three copies in the U.S.
Medina, Mexico, 8711. Contemporary vellum over paste boards of printer's waste, vellum cockled and that of the front cover lightly rodent-gnawed at board edges. Worming in text, some of which is meander type, costing letters. Not a great copy, but given the scarcity, an acceptable one. (24103)
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