•  Medina, Mexico, 10819; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 1607; not in Sutro. Folds from having been previously bound into a small folio volume. Left margin irregular from removal from that volume. Revenue stamps on the verso. Viceroy Venegas’s paraph (“rúbrica”) below his printed name. A very good copy.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico; not in Sutro. Grajales 1623. Removed from a nonce volume and irregular in left margin. Revenue stamps on the verso. Venegas’s manuscript paraph (rúbrica) appended to his name in type.

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Rare: No copies located in the U.S. via OCLC, RLIN, or NUC. Garritz gives the Bancroft as holding a copy, but a search of the University of California OPAC does not find it.

•  Garritz 1871. Not in Medina; not in Sutro. Removed from a nonce volume and irregular inner margins repaired with archival tissue. A very good copy.

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•  Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien or 510; not in Harper, Americana Iberica. In recent wrappers; left margin slightly irregular.

By the end of July, 1811, Father Hidalgo was in custody and standing trial.

The offer of clemency was never repeated.

Rare: The only copy traced in the U.S. is in the H.R. Wagner collection at Yale.

•  Garritz 1274; not in Medina, Mexico.   As issued, inner margin irregular. Printed on pale blue paper. With the viceroy's paraph. Very Good.  (24109)

•  Palau 167403. Folded as issued.

Although the university was founded in 1551 and began offering classes in 1553, its rules and practices were not published until 1668: Various manuscript compilations of the rules had been gathered during the first hundred years of the institution, but it fell to Bishop Palafox to undertake the definitive compilation and to initiate the publication of the results, which did not see light of day until after his death. It is his omnium gatherum that the body of this volume offers.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5836; Palau 6067; not in Harper, Americana Iberica; not in Maggs, Bibl. Amer. 20th-century quarter calf with marbled paper sides and endpapers. All edges carmine. Paper clean and crisp. A lovely copy.

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This decree was printed in Mexico City and is dated in text 12 January 1814.

This copy printed on blue paper.

Uncommon: NUC locates only two copies (at the Bancroft and the John Carter Brown libraries).

•  Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 1917; not in Harper, Americana Iberica.

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In this decree Congress addresses several matters touching Sinaloa, Sonora, Durango, and New Mexico. With specific reference to New Mexico, Congress orders the creation of the bishopric of New Mexico with vicars in Santa Fe, Paso del Norte, and Chihuahua; and in another clause it grants New Mexico total exemption from sales tax on locally grown produce and locally manufactured goods.

This copy is one of the states' printings (i.e., the state of Mexico, dated 24 July).

•  As issued, with some later folds; a few pin-type worm holes not costing letters. Very Good.  (24106)

•  STC (rev.) 17947; ESTC S121879; Allibone 1325; Vancil 165. On Minsheu, see: Dictionary of National Biography.   Period-style morocco framed and panelled in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with original gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments (signed by Grace Bindings in blind at inner area of rear cover, lower turn-in). Title-page institutionally rubber-stamped. Some age-toning and light to moderate spotting; one leaf with tear from outer margin into several lines of text, without loss; last leaf with small hole affecting a few words. (21047)

Front wrapper reads: “Mexico y Cuba; apuntes históricos.”

Apparently scarce: OCLC has a record for this but with no library holdings given. Searches of the University of Texas and University of California OPACs failed to find this publication.

•  20th-century Mexican red calf binding. Title in gilt on front cover. Original wrappers bound in. Front free endpaper torn out exposing inner hinge; waterstaining particularly visible to first leaves, faint to later ones. (21513)

Not the least of his accomplishments was the creation of two pueblo-hospitals for native Americans, and appended and integral to this biography are his “Reglas, y ordenanzas para el gobierno de los Hospitales de Santa Fé de México, y Michoacàn,” which occupy the final 29 pages.

Historians still consider this to be the definitive biography of Quiroga. The engraved portrait of him, handsome and from the burin of José Morales, adds a face to the words of the biographer and to the account of the deeds of the biographee.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5099; Wellcome, Medical Americana, M.134; Palau 181902; Beristain, III, 2059.   Contemporary limp vellum lacking ties. A very good copy.  (23061)

•  Not in Palau. Recent wrappers. Number in old ink on first page and another stamped in margin of another. Good condition.

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