In a later part of the volume Florencia chronicles the springing up in other parts of New Spain of shrines to St. Michael. The work ends with the antiphony and prayers used at the shrine in Tlaxcala and with the novena to St. Michael and an explanation of the same.

The work is in Spanish butthere is a passage in Nahuatl on p. 199.

Provenance:  Late 19th-century ownership stamps of A. Gonzalez Nunez, some partially inked over or partially erased.

There is bad cataloguing relating to this work. An edition was printed at Seville with no date and with “Imprenta de las Siete Revultas” in the imprint and the word “maravillosa” spelled “marabillosa”; too often this is catalogued as having been printed in 1692 when in fact it was printed in 1740. Copies of the true first edition are hard to find. After searching NUC and WorldCat and double-checking reported holdings against OPACs, we find only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership of the true first edition: JCB and the Hispanic Society. False reports were found for Bancroft and the University of Florida.

•  Alden & Landis 692/63; Sabin 24815 (for the 1740 edition only); DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 798 (for the 1740 edition only); Medina, BHA, 6467; Palau 92347 (for the 1740 edition only). Not in H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli.   Contemporary limp vellum, lacking the ties; recased, spine with small repairs. All edged made black (but in an uneven way). Old bookseller's stamp on title and three other pages, three stamps partially inked over; several old inscriptions ineffectually inked over. Lacking the preliminary leaf with the woodcut of St. Michael on the verso and the final blank leaf. Some water- and other staining; last leaf soiled and last four with small damage to foremargin (no loss of text). A rare, and MEATY, thing.  (31482)

•  Not in Palau. Disbound from a volume of pamphlets, but in very good condition.

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A scarce work, having been printed in a limited number of copies for the very limited-sized audience of Franciscan novices.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5761.   Contemporary limp vellum. Very clean and crisp. A truly excellent copy.  (22204)

And, of course, the volume covers much about the administration of the order, the admission of novices, the pursuit and expression of spiritual life, etc.

The work begins with the title-page printed in black and red in roman with some italic. The text is in roman also, with sidenotes in some sections, and with a sprinkling of interesting woodcut tailpieces.

A dense and interesting work.

•  Medina, Mexico, 1687; Sabin 76023.   Recased in original (?) vellum with four leather ties (two new). Title-leaf mounted; damage to lower third with loss of paper and print including imprint; approbation leaves torn in same portion, repaired with loss of a few words; first leaf of the “Parecer” torn and repaired with no loss. Some worming of both types: pinhole and meander, the latter repaired with archival tissue. Otherwise, occasional light waterstaining only; a solid, serviceable copy.  (25559)

A special issue copy: Present here is an uncalled-for frontispiece. It is of four Capuchin martyrs, issigned by the artist Navarro, is engraved on copper, and is printed au sanguine — the color reserved foronly the most special copies of 18th-century books. This frontispiece is not called for by Medina and is not present in any of the copies reported as held in the U.S.

•  Medina, Mexico, 4991; Palau 45600; Sabin 11098; Maggs, Bibliotheca Asiatica, 611.   Full antique calf, spine gilt, leather label. Careful repairs, using archival tape, accomplished to old worming to most leaves; wormwork sometimes minimal and sometimes more extensive but never preventing reading. Quite a good copy.  (12725)

•  Palau 290780. Recent quarter red morocco over red cloth, spine gilt extra, red marbled endpapers, and top edge red. Clean, attractive interior.

Provenance:  This copy from the library of author and diplomat Don Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano; vol. I with a presentation inscription addressed to him on the half-title, with the bookplate of his son Luis Valera on the front pastedown of each volume. The inscription to Valera waswritten by one of the work's editors, Remón Zarco del Valle.

•  Palau 97065.   Contemporary brown morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped title and volume number, vols. III and IV matching I and II very closely but not quite identical; joints, edges, and extremities rubbed, spines of III and IV lightly sunned. Vol. I with inscription and all vols. with bookplate as above. One leaf of vol. I with paper flaw, noticeable but not touching text; six leaves of vol. II each with tear at inner margin repaired some time ago, not touching text. Vols. I and II: pages slightly age-toned with occasional faint spots, almost entirely clean. Vols. III and IV: somewhat more pronounced age-toning, scattered mild spotting. Overall a clean, solid set with an interesting provenance.  (29360)

•  Medina, Mexico, 9502; Palau 97721; Sabin 16551. Publisher's treed sheep binding, gilt spine extra, spine label mostly perished. All edges carmine. A very good copy.

The subject of this work is the rivalry between Spain and France for political and religious supremacy in the Catholic realm of Europe, but the author also discusses national traits, as he sees them, such as manner of dressing, walking, eating, and talking.

•  Palau 97802.   Recent boards covered with marbled paper; leather spine label gilt with title. Some lower margins irregular due to natural paper flaws. All edges speckled red. A very good copy.  (25812)

Designed and printed in an edition of 300 numbered copies by Claire Van Vliet atthe Janus Press, with typesetting by Nancy Boylen and binding by Jim Bicknell. The paper is Mohawk Superfine Vellum and the type 18-point Monotype Spectrum. This is copy 274.

•  Fine, Janus Press 1955–75, p. 42.   Publisher's gray cloth with paper spine label. Fine copy.  (30523)

The topic of the defense was the role of the macaenas in times of war and peace.

Chain lines are horizontal!

We trace no copy via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, Metabase, or the OPACs of the national libraries of Mexico or Spain. We have failed to find the URL for the OPAC of the Guatemalan National Library.

•  Not in Medina, Guatemala.   Old folds, left margin irregular. A very clean, crisp copy.  (30334)

Rare: Charno locates copies of the supplement only at the Newberry and University of Texas libraries.

•  Charno, Latin American Newspapers in United States Libraries, pp. 590–92. As issued. Worming in foremargin, touching two letters; repaired; small hole where paper was thin at center of leaf, taking a bit of a rule but no text. Pencilling in margins. A very good copy.

Vol. II of this set was issued first; and Genovese died during publication of vol. I, while still composing a third volume never published; his biography follows the preface in vol. I. The text is in Spanish, printed in roman and italic, with occasional woodcut ornaments, and in vol. II there is oneengraved plate illustrating the sacred heart signed by Iph. Morales (José Morales, according to Medina).

Provenance:  Unidentified mark in ink on bottom edge of vol. I, resembling a marca del fuego.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 1323; Palau 101381, 101382; Medina, Mexico, 4290, 4439; Beristain, II, p. 27; León, Bibl. Mex., 682.   Contemporary limp vellum, soiled, early title and volume number inked on each spine with modest and attractive decoration; shelf marks of an old library quaintly in red ink or paint to lower spines, small inked number to one front pastedown also; edges faintly speckled red. Two recent ties and bead catches on first volume, and remnants of four contemporary leather ties on second. number in ink on front pastedown of first. Both volumes trimmed close with a few ink smudges, mild foxing in places, occasionally another spot; natural paper flaws in vol. II resulting in one small hole and one closed internal tear. Really, very crisp and clean internally, and overallmost appealing.  (31194)

The text is mostly in Latin, with portions in Spanish; the printer has made use of nicely cut head- and tailpieces as well as a striking woodcut printer’s vignette (“De forti dulcedo”) on the red and black title-page. RLIN and OCLC show only two U.S. holdings of this edition.

Provenance: Front free endpaper with bookplate of Michael J. O’Farrell, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton; also with bookplate noting O’Farrell’s gift of the book to an institution.

•  Palau 103253. Contemporary limp vellum, cockled and lightly soiled, with ties now lacking; spine with faded inked title. Title-page dusty, thin, and holed, with lower outside corner torn away, touching one letter and a red rule; date altered to 1601 by erasure of the first “C” in the roman-numeralled date! Leaves browned, foxed; instances of early inked marginalia and blots. Uncommon, as well as interesting for its contemporary use and its later provenance. (12184)

This document is one of the very few printed in the temporary capital of Mixco, a press having been salvaged from the ruins in the former capital. Thus, Mixco was the second city/town to have a press in Central America, and then, for only a short time—appoximately two years.

In addition to being important for its contents and in the realm of printing history, the González Bustillo report is uncommon: We trace only half a dozen copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Medina, Guatemala, 384; Palau 105113; Sabin 27811. Modern full calf, very plain style. Without the final leaf with one erratum on it.

The work is printed in double-column format. The prefatory matter includes the expected licenses, author's preface, and “Parecer,” but also includespoetry and two lengthy quotations from the decree of the Council of Trent dealing with reform of the catechism.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Medina, Mexico, 4627.   Contemporary vellum over paste boards with old inked lettering to spine and sign of old red shelfmark at base; remnants of ties and all edges mottled green. Old paper repairs to title-leaf, the foremargins of the two leaves following the title, and the foremargin of the final leaf; lacking the plate. A solid, good copy.  (30291)

•  Medina, Mexico, 11697; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 3585; Sutro 112; Steele 12. Folded, never bound. Minor worming affecting a few letters. Writing in pencil on first page. (3905)

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Provenance:  Early 19th-century ownership signatures on front free endpaper of Anthony Coe Ogilvie and E.H.(?) Ogilvie.

•  American Imprints 31923. Not in Palau.   Publisher’s quarter cloth with paper-covered sides; binding waterspotted. Scattered light foxing. A good copy.  (26144)

Apparently little held in the U.S. for we trace copies atonly three North American institutions.

•  Not in Palau.   Removed from a nonce volume; nonce spine evident. Clean, even crisp.  (32723)

Because the documents in this volume were all transacted using notaries, it is an excellent paleographical teaching tool. It is also a great source for teachingmercantile mathematics of the early 17th century, for there are many pages of cyphering and numerous accounting documents showing costs and expenses.

And, obviously, it isa primary source on the silk trade in the great port city of Seville during a full-decade period.

Binding:  Contemporary red goat nicely tooled in gilt to form two concentric oblong panels, each accented with corner devices and with a gilt central medallion in the middle of each cover. Strong, handsome gilt lettering to front cover. Green and gold silk ties.

•  Binding shows some abrasion and small loss of leather. A volume in good state, entirely legible and solidly bound.  (32637)

WorldCat and CICCLA combine to locate two copies of which one is in the U.S.

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Provenance:  Ex-John Carter Brown Library; sold as duplicate.

•  Medina, Guatemala, 1677.   Original plain wrapper. Without the coat of arms leaf. Upper corners bumped/dog-eared/creased, leaves with the odd spot or big of soil; generally, a clean copy.  (28208)

Minister Aycinena announces that he will assume the presidential powers until a new leader can be appointed.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, CICLA, and Metabase locate only one library copy worldwide — in the U.S.

•  Valenzuela, VI, 119.   As issued; one small piece of blank paper torn from lower outer corner. Overall age-toning.  (31054)

The state of Los Altos came into being because of political differences and tensions between Guatemala City and Quetzaltenango and other parts of western Central America.

No copy traced via WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE; there is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched.

•  Almost-overall waterstain giving the paper an aged look. Upper margin with small area eaten by vermin and repaired with archival tissue; lower foremargin damaged with loss and repaired with undetermined tape. Overall good+.  (30884)

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, CICLA, and Metabase locate only two copies, both in the U.S. However, we do know of a third copy at Tulane.

•  Not in Valenzuela.   Folded and stitched as issued; minor chipping in lower margins. Scattered faint foxing. A very good copy.  (31053)

Guridi y Alcocer here defends himself and various of his statements in the Cortes from Cancelada's attacks in that newspaper, both personal and political. Guridi sought to open the (whole) New World to free trade, arguing for free access to European seeds, plant stocks, and exports generally. He also sought administrative reform, reduction in regulations, and the ending of colonial status.

WorldCat locates only two copies Worldwide.

•  Palau 111215; Sutro 87.   Removed from a nonce volume. One small tear in a margin, repaired. Clean and nice.  (26042)