Manuel was tried, found guilty of fomenting revolution, and executed by hanging. This is an extract of the trial transcript. It was first printed in Havana and is here in the first Mexican printing.

•  Medina, Mexico, 10456; Garritz 701; Sutro 74. Not in Steele. Removed from a nonce volume. Library of Congress duplicate with small LC perforation stamp in lower margin of title-page. Ownership inscriptions on title-page. A cut down copy, affecting and in one instance totally costing the final line on a page. Fair condition.

He tells of the cult that surrounded this apparition, the numerous aspects of her veneration, and the many miracles attributed to her. Hers was the image paraded through the streets in times of plague, drought, famine, war, and tribulation in general. The volume begins with a full-page frontispiece that incorporates a large anonymously carved woodcut of the Virgin surrounded by text and a border of printer's flowers.  Below the woodcut is an epigram about her.

•  Palau 92338; DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 796; Sabin 24814; Medina, BHA, 3375; Alden & Landis 745/84.   Contemporary full calf in the Valencia style, gilt spine extra; plain endpapers. Occasional spotting; minor worming in upper outer margins of some leaves not touching text — a good+ copy of a scarce book.  (23059)

•  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)

•  Not in Palau; not in Medina, BHA. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with shadow of pencilled numeral in upper margin; one leaf with institutional pressure stamp. Most leaves with old damage to outer margins, repaired of old in most instances, with loss of some words or letters from a number of shouldernotes; a few instances of early inked bracketing.

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A special issue copy: Present here is an uncalled-for frontispiece. It is of four Capuchin martyrs, is signed by the artist Navarro, is engraved on copper, and is printed au sanguine -- the color reserved for only 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. Slight worming to late leaves, repaired with tape in an inoffensive fashion. 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.

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•  On Gage, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XX, 353–55. Recent marbled paper over light boards. Second and third blank leaves pasted together. Some light soiling, and some chipping and tears without apparent loss of text. Rubber-stamps from a now-defunct library. The paper here is decidedly blue; the hand is very readable.

•  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 Historia general del Peru deals with the discovery and conquest of Peru and the subsequent civil wars between the Pizarro and Almagro camps. This second edition is esteemed for its editor’s erudition. The work is printed in double-column format with a sufficiency of pleasing initials, and a title-page printed in black and red. The text first appeared as pt. II of the author’s Commentarios reales (Córdoba, 1617), but is a stand-alone work.

•  Medina, Biblioteca hispano-americana, 2408; Sabin 98755; Palau 354792; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 722/88. 20th-century half morocco over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; sides and edges showing light rubbing. Title-page with small institutional stamp, lower outer corner repaired with loss of a few letters from publisher’s imprint; one other page stamped in lower outer corner. Lower portions of leaves stained, with some outer edges ragged, occasional edge nicks and lost corners. Last index leaf with upper portion torn away.

Uncommon: 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.

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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.

Rare: We locate only the copies in the Texas State Land Office, Yale, and Texas A&M.

•  Streeter, Texas, 812.   Very good condition.  (21744)

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.

Gorostiza's purpose in issuing this pamphlet was to discredit the U.S. and “expose” its “intentions” relating to Texas and Mexico.The pamphlet played the chief role in the breaking off of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico.

Cover title: Contestaciones habidas entre la Legacion extraordinaria de Mexico y el Departamento de estado de los Estados-Unidos. Año de 1837.

•  Streeter, Texas, 1220A (but see long note at 1220C); Howes C6; Palau 62737; Raines 96; Sabin16908.   Original wrappers bound in contemporary blind-stamped green cloth with gilt spine. Very good condition. (20887)

The work ends with a list of subscribers, making this one of the few colonial Mexican books with such a list.

•  Medina, Mexico, 11897; Palau 111216; Garritz 3593.   Mid-19th-century sheep, nicely gilt-tooled; leather a little dry and rubbed. Faint 19th-century stamps of an ecclesiastical library. Without the Montes de Oca plate; else, a very good copy.  (23969)