•  Palau 112066; Nash, American Penmanship, 263. Contemporary half diced calf over embossed cloth, single gilt roll at each leather edge; worn with boards very slightly sprung, evidence of water damage to upper back cover, small scrape to cloth on front cover and larger scrape to leather at top of spine. Pages moderately foxed, with text leaves cleaner than plates.

Provenance: Spidery signature of signature at rear of volume I of Henry Ward Poole, Mexico City, 1876. Later New York City Catholic library stamp on verso of half-title of vol. I and verso of front free endpaper of vol. II.

•  Palau 114450; DeBacker-Sommervogel IV, 322. Contemporary treed sheep (pasta española), spines darkened, covers with small abrasions. Old library stamps as above. Very nice set.

This is a fine, extremely early example of Father Hidalgo's signature.

The woman who provided the money for the above mentioned masses was the wife of Antonio de Vivano (also spelled Bibano) Gutiérrez and mother of Antonio Guadalupe de Vivano, the first two Condes de Vivanco. Cambridge scholar David Brading credits Antonio de Vivanco with restoring the mining region of Bolaños to prosperity in the early 1770s, following the region's sharp decline in silver ore production during the first two-thirds of the 18th century — whereby he became very wealthy.

In addition to payment for masses for her soul, Doña Augustina's will provides for large sums of money to be spent on construction work on the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the bishopric of Guadalajara. The paperwork, including receipts, associated with the distribution of her largesse is weighty and detailed.

Among the collateral documents in this offering are copies of the last wills and testaments of Antonio de Vivanco Gutiérrez (1796), Augustina Velázquez (1780), and Antonio Guadalupe de Vivanco (1800); the inventory of the younger Vivanco's massive estate (1801); and a marvelouscalligraphic manuscript in which the bishop of Guadalajara grants a special privilege to Vivanco the elder. All are notarially certified copies of the originals.

•  All documents in very good condition, sewn, in contemporary vellum bindings.

•  Palau 262674. Wrappers.

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This map depicts the parishes of Tzilacayoapan, Quicoya, Tlapanzingo, and Caliguala in the Mixtec region of Puebla, Mexico. The map also shows various still-extant towns, including Huastepec, other then-extant towns that are now gone, various ranchos or haciendas, and smaller villages. The map is accomplished in red, green, yellow, brown, and grey. The lettering is precise and the whole very appealing.

•  Very good condition. Small piece of upper outer corner torn with small loss of margin. Clearly once tipped into a volume of manuscripts or other documents.

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•  Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels. Frontispiece lacking and pages showing light cockling; clean and attractive. (21114)

This is a scarce work in the U.S.: Only the Bancroft and Gleeson libraries report ownership.

•  Medina, Mexico, 4326; DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 350.   Publisher's cheap vellum, top and side edges of the upper outer corner of the front cover with rodent nibbling. The upper outer cornertips of the first 20 leaves also provided (slight) nourishment to a rodent; pp. 57–58 of second part show a natural paper flaw at the edge of the leaf, not costing any letters.  (17050)

Copies of the Indexes that can be proved to have been used in colonial Mexico are virtually unknown. This is the first such pairing of 16th-century printings that we have seen in our 30 years of dealing in colonial Mexicana.

Provenance: Marca de fuego on top and bottom edges of the Convento of San Antonio Sultepec; later in the library of Santa Barbara of Puebla according to a 17th-century notation on the title-page of the first work (“Es de Sta. Barbara de la Puebla, por n[uest]ro her[man]o fr[ay] Juan de Santa Ana, g[uardi]an”).

•  Aed.I: Palau 118926 Aed. II: 118927 & 118928. Contemporary limp and cockled vellum, a little shrunken and with remnants of ties. Lower margins sometime exposed to water and with arrested mildew damage, causing loss of paper that has been repaired in heavy-handed fashion. Good copies, but not very good ones, of these remarkable survivors!

Very uncommon: We trace only two copies in the U.S. — at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico.   Piece torn from upper right corner costing “icos” in “Apostolicos” and “a España” of “Nueva España.” Fold tears along the horizontal and vertical middle folds of the document with loss of paper costing some words and some ability to read and follow the flow of the content. Light stains. Priced accordingly.  (17045)

Among the publications banned in their entirety are two “papeles” in Basque: Conferencia spirituala çoint an ikhusten baita francianco Nationeax eliça guiçonen againean eguin duen Constitutione Civlia, and Erresumaco juramentuya populujaren adiskide batez, escualduner esplicatuya. These constitute the first instance this cataloguer has personally seen of the Mexican Inquisition banning publications in Basque (DMS).

Handsomely printed in roman type, single-column format at top and bottom and double-column format in the middle. With the embossed paper and wax seal of the Inquisition present, in the lower left corner. Signed with paraphs by four Inquisitors: Drs. Juan de Mier y Villar, Antonio Bergosa y Jordan, Bernardo de Prado y Obejero, and José de Pereda y Chaves.

Rare: Not in the standard bibliographies and OCLC locates only the copy at the Bancroft.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien; not in González de Cossío, 510.   Very good condition, very small piece of blank paper torn from lower margin. Old folds.  (23379)

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Printed in double-column format. Signed with paraphs by the three inquisitors and with the Inquisition's woodcut seal in the lower left corner. Also bearing the admonition: “Nadie le quite pena de Excomunion mayor” (“Let no one take this down [from where it is posted], under penalty of complete Excommunicaton.')

Rare.  We locate only the copy at Texas A&M.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien or 510; not in Lathrop Harper.   Very Good condition.  (21772)

Searches of OCLC, RLIN and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four copies in the U.S.

•  Medina, Mexico, 11808; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 3654; Steele 46; Sutro 134. Removed from a volume with ragged inner margin. Faint rubber-stamp in one margin.

On the bottom half is a signed receipt, in Spanish, dated Granada 8 May 1501, wherein Germán de Paris and Jacques acknowledge receiving the above mentioned payment.

•  The usual slash of cancellation (faintly visible above), indicating that this has been entered into the account books. Remnant of stiff paper at top of verso indicating it was once mounted in an album.

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Works of Jewish controversy written by Jews and published in England in the period to 1720 were few in number and are now very uncommon. Those controversial treatises actually in Hebrew were and are particularly rare. Searches via ESTC, RLIN, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956 locate fewer than a dozen copies of this text in U.S. libraries.

•  Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, 336; Palau 191134; ESTC T210368. 18th-century diced russia. Joints and board edges rubbed with joints tender and starting at tops and bottoms. Some margin pencil marks but a clean, complete copy of a scarce and very important book.