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[drop-title] La verdad aunque amargue es muchas veces el objecto precioso de la
libertad de imprenta. [colophon: Méjico: Oficina de D. Alejandro Valdes,
1820]. Small 4to. 8 pp.
Uncommon.
• Medina, Mexico, 11717; Garritz 3871; Steele 59 & 75; Sutro 145. Folded as issued; uncut. Very good copy.
For
a short “shelf” devoted to
Otomí by a
Native-Speaker Neve y Molina, Luis de. Reglas de orthographia, diccionario,
y arte del idioma othomi. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. Small 8vo. [12] ff., 160 pp., engr. leaf of errata, lacks the engr. frontis.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Medina, Mexico, 5174; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 55; Viñaza 356; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., II, 2154; Sabin 52413; Palau 190159. Original limp vellum, cockled and a little shrunken, a significant “L-shaped” piece of vellum torn and missing from front cover. Foremargins of front free endpaper, front fly-leaf, title-page, and first leaf of introduction torn with loss of paper and of small portion of title-page border and of a very few letters of the first two pages of the introduction; wormhole in early leaves costing a few letters. Lacks the engraved frontispiece. Not unblemished, but certainly a good copy of an important and scarce text. (22168)
An Attractive SetNúñez de Haro y Peralta, Alonso. Sermones escogidos, pláticas espirituales privadas, y dos pastorales, anteriormente impresas en México.... Madrid: En la imprenta de la hija de Ibarra, 1806. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). 3 vols. I: Frontis., [2], xvii, [1], 408, [4] pp. II: [2], 355, [5 (index)] III: [4], 336 (i.e., 338), [2 (index)] pp.
Single-click any image where the hand appears on• Palau 197255; Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 6093. Contemporary treed sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels and gilt-stamped decorations and volume numbers; corners and extremities slightly rubbed, boards with some scuffs and scrapes. Title-pages with decorative “BR” monogram stamp. Moderate offsetting to a number of pages in vol. I and a few in vol. II; occasional light spotting throughout. All edges speckled.
Distinctive Production — Happy Occasion Osorio, Diego. Estabilidad, y firmeza de la Santa Escuela de Christo Sr. Nro. con authoridad apostolica y ordinaria en el convento de N. S. P. Sr. San Francisco de Mexico. . . . [Mexico]: Impr. del Empedradillo, [1756]. Small 4to. [16] ff., 26 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. several instances of poetry.
• Medina, Mexico, 4347. Removed from a nonce volume; faint marcas de fuego in upper and lower margins. In-text worming, with loss of a few words. In recent wrappers. (21009)
Palafox
on Kingship — A Handsome
VolumePalafox
y Mendoza, Juan de. Historia real sagrada, luz de principes, y subditos.
Brusselas: Francesco Foppens, 1655. 4to (23 cm, 9.1"). *4**4a–f4A–Z4Aa–
Zz4Aaa–Mmm4; [32] ff., 435, [29 (index)] pp. (add.
engr. t.-p. lacking).
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the interior images for enlargement.
• Sabin 58295; Medina, BHA, 1245; Peeters-Fontainas 1029; Palau 209622. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt extra, with gilt-stamped leather title-label; corners, spine, and spine extremities a touch rubbed, otherwise pleasingly fresh. Front free endpaper with early inked inscription, front fly-leaf with early inked “Acto de contricion” affixed. Lacking additional engraved title-page. Final third of text block starting to pull away from spine, sewing still holding. Pages age-toned, with some instances of spotting and offsetting. All edges mottled to match binding.
Handsome — Seminal! OWN LANGUAGEParedes, Ignacio de. Promptuario manual mexicano. Mexico: Impr. de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1759. Small 4to. Engr. frontis., [23] ff., 380, 90 pp.
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either of the two left images for enlargements.At the end, in Nahuatl, is a sermon on the Virgin of Guadalupe incorporating the history of Her apparition. The work begins with one of the most famous colonial-era engravings—signed by Zapata—showing St. Ignatius above a tableau representing the peoples of the world. This, along with the volume’s detailed title-page and beautiful full-page woodcut coat of arms, is present and spotless. The printer has also employed various handsome woodcut head- and tailpieces at different points in the text.
• Viñaza 344; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 57; Medina, Mexico, 4568; León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2082; Sabin 58575; De Backer-Sommervogel, VI, 211–212; Burrus & Grajales 206. 20th-century quarter sheep, leather worn and stained but the volume solid. Small amount of worming to about 6 leaves, being only a thin line costing no sense and few letters; one of these pages soiled. A rather nicer copy of this rarity than these notes would lead one to understand!
Banned! in Mexico(Pascal, Blaise). Carta de un leonés a uno de los suscritores a la reimpresion de las Cartas provinciales de Pascal. México: Impr. de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1842. Small 4to. 16 pp.
• Sutro 756 ("19p." being a typographical error for collation given here); not in Steele, Independent Mexico: A Collection of Mexican Pamphlets in the Bodleian Library. Folded and never sewn or bound; as issued.
“Mexico is Ours to
Take & Enjoy”(Pastry War). [drop-title] Gratis. Traduccion de la proclama que se encontró en la bolsa á uno de los oficiales franceses muertos en el asalto que emprendieron á la Plaza de Veracruz el 5 de diciembre de este año. [colophon: Mexico: Impr. de Luis Abadiano y Valdés, 1838]. Small 8vo (20.2 cm; 8"). [2] pp.
• Single sheet without the integral blank. Irregular margins. Very good condition.
The State of MexicanPublic FinancePayno,
Manuel. Reseña sobre el estado de los principales ramos de la
hacienda publica, escrita por el C. Manuel Payno, para su sucesor en el despacho
de la Secretaria de Hacienda, Lic. D. Jose I. Esteva. Mexico: Imprenta de Ignacio
Cumplido, 1851. 4to (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 59, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Manuel Payno (1820–94) was a Mexican civil servant noted for his success in running a secret courier service between Mexico and Veracruz during the war with the United States. He later served as Secretary of the Treasury under Comonfort, and on leaving office published this report on the state of public finances during a period of great turmoil in Mexican history.
• Palau 215473; Sutro 871. Stitched. Some very shallow tattering, a little shallow chipping, and some dog earing. Light brown-staining. Some pages out of order. Better overall than the condition details suggest.
The Land & Indian Problems Pimentel, Francisco. Memoria sobre las causas que han originado la situacion actual de la raza indígena de México, y medios de remediarla. Mexico: Impr. de Andrade y Escalante, 1864. 8vo. 241, [1] pp., [1] f. [with the same author's] La economía política aplicada a la propiedad territorial en México. México: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1866. 8vo. 265, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f.
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A
Tract forMany
Times &
Places
(Políticos locos). Anonymous. [drop-title] La casa de la demencia, ó los políticos locos. [colophon: Méjico: Oficina de D. Alejandro Valdés, 1820]. 8vo. 12 pp.
• Sutro 117; Steele 42; Medina, Mexico, 11696; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 3584. Modern marbled boards with paper label.
Liar! Pugana, Ladislao. Tercera respuesta al analisis del romance de Veracruz. Méjico: en la oficina de Ontiveros, [1820]. Small 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). 8 pp.
Clearly, part of a delicious politico-literary cat fight.
Uncommon: We trance only the copies at Lehigh, Berkeley, the Sutro, and the Huntington.
• Not in Medina, Mexico. Sutro 152; Garritz 3995; Steele 14 & 64; Palau 241263. Folded as issued.
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