
THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE
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First Guidebook to
Marian Shrines in Mexico
A Very Early Florida Author
(A TRUE MARIAN CLASSIC). Florencia, Francisco de. Zodiaco mariano en que el sol de justicia Christo con la salud en las alas vista como signos, y casas proprias para beneficio de los hombres los templos, y lugares dedicados à los cultos de su SS. Madre por medio de las mas celebres, y milagrosas imagenes de la misma Señora, que se veneran en esta America Septentrional, y reynos de la Nueva España. Mexico: En la Nueva Imprenta del Real, y Mas Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, 1755. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [24], 328 pp.
$2000.00
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Noted Jesuit author Francisco de Florencia (1619–95) has the distinction of being one of the earliest known Florida-born authors; his writings are numerous and his best focus on Mariology. The work at hand is the first published survey of shrines in Mexico relating to Mary and her Apparitions. The manuscript remained unpublished at Florencia's death and it fell to fellow Jesuit and Mariologist Juan Antonio de Oviedo to update, edit, and publish it for the first time in 1755.
Evidence of readership: Note in margin of p. 113, where discussion begins of the image of Nuestra Senora de las Angustias that is in the Hospital del Amor de Dios: “hoi se benera esta imagen en San Andres.”
Sabin 24819; Medina, Mexico, 4246; DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 799; Grajales & Burrus, Bibliografia guadalupana, 169; Palau 92355. Contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties and pastedowns and front free endpapers (if there ever were any). Two small round areas in blank space of title-page with holes probably where a previous owner's name was; two pages (31, 153) each with two areas of blank space heavily inked over, again probably where a previous owner's name was, the iron gall ink having damaged those two leaves with small loss (perhaps 12 or 15 words total) on their versos. Some stray brown stains, possibly associated with ink or with wax.
A good copy but for the noted small losses. Priced accordingly. (36621)

Defense of a Marian Cult
Alcocer, José Antonio. Carta apologética a favor del título de Madre Santisima de la Luz, que goza la reyna del cielo Maria purísima señora nuestra, y de la imagen que con el mismo título se venera en algunos lugares de esta América. Mexico: por Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1790. Small 4to. [34] ff., xi [i.e., ix], [1 (blank)], 197, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacks engraved plate).
$500.00
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The author, a Franciscan missionary and a native of León, Guanajuato, here defends the cult of the Virgin Mary that is known in Spanish as la Luz. Some opprobrium had come to be attached to the cult when the Fourth Mexican Provincial Council condemned it, but as the actions of that council were never approved or ratified by the Vatican, the condemnation was nullified.
Medina, Mexico, 79191; Palau 6095; on Alcocer, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica, fiche 23, frames 47–49. Contemporary cockled vellum, lacking the buttons for its loops, and lacking also the engraving; a very few light stains to a very few pages. Actually, quite a nice copy of the text. (36658)

Much! Political Comment
Barrio y Rangel, José M. del. Sermón predicado por el P.D. José M. del Barrio y Rengel, presbitero de la v. Congregacion del Oratorio, en la solemne función que el Comercio de México dedicó a María Santísima de Guadalupe, su augusta patrona, el martes 6 de enero de 1857, en la Iglesia de N.S.P.S. Francisco. Mexico: Impr. de José Mariano Lara, 1857. 8vo (21 cm; 9"). [3] ff., 52 pp.
$250.00
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Following his sermon on the Virgin of Guadalupe, the author has provided “notas” on pp. 27 to the end. The notes contain significant political commentary on the differences between politics in the U.S. and Mexico.
Grajales & Burrus, Bibliografia guadalupana, 374. Sewn as issued. Dust-soiled, especially to title-page and edges, with top and bottom edges bent. Overall a good++ copy. (34681)

With an Early Engraving of
the Virgin of Guadalupe
*&* Commentary on It
Bartolache [y Diaz de Posada], Jose Ignacio. Manifiesto satisfactorio anunciado en la Gazeta de Mexico (Tom. I nm. 53) Opusculo guadalupano. Mexico: Imp. por D. Felipe de Ziga y Ontiveros, 1790. 4to. [7] ff., 105, [1 (blank)], 16 pp., [6] ff., 3 plts.
$1500.00
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Medical doctor, professor of mathematics, author, and founder of the first medical journal published in the New World (Mercurio volante), Bartolache was one of New Spain's memorable and colorful “characters” during the Age of Enlightenment. He was an eccentric and volatile personality in the academic, medical, cultural, and social life of Mexico City during the last third of the 18th century.
In this treatise Bartolache (1739–90) presents quite possibly the first historiographical study of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the literature about her.
In all, Bartolache details and discusses 19 books and pamphlets. Additionally, this volume contains an excellent engraving of the Virgin, designed by Jose Guerrero and engraved by Tomas Suria. The last text pages discuss this image of the Virgin as a physical object, as a piece of art: the structure supporting her, the proportions of the face and body, the “paint,” and so on. The final six leaves contain a list of subscribers, which is rather unusual in Mexican books, and there are two other, unsigned, related engravings.
Medina, Mexico, 7957; Grajales & Burrus, Bibliografia guadalupana, 273; Palau 25095; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., I, 1141, and VI, 5899; Beristain, I, 141; Puttick & Simpson, Bibliotheca Mejicana, 167; Sutro, p. 33. Contemporary acid-stained sheep (Valenciana style) with gilt spine, marbled endpapers and all edges red; fore-edge of rear cover gnawed upon by a rodent, but not too seriously.
A clean, attractive copy of a book both widely and deeply interesting. (36633)

Protecting the Virgin of Guadalupe from the
Impugnings of Juan Bautista Muñoz
Gomez Marin, Manuel. Defensa guadalupana ... contra la disertacion de D. Juan Bautista Muñoz. Méjico: Impr. de Alejandro Valdes, 1819. Small 4to. [5] ff., 55, [1 (blank)] pp.
$525.00
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Juan Bautista Muñoz (1745–99, with death by apoplexy) was Charles III's official chronicler of New World. In a posthumously published article — “Memoria sobre las apariciones y el culto de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe en México . . . “, Memorias de la Real Academia de la Historia, V (1817), 204–24 — Muñoz
denied the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, calling it merely the illusion of a “mere Indian.” The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe was so important to Mexicans of all classes and political persuasions that a spirited defense was assured; and Gómez Marín, a distinguished poet, naturalist, and religious writer, provides one here.
Grajales & Burrus, Bibliografía guadalupana, 325; Medina, Mexico, 11486; Palau 104079; Sabin 27768; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 2980. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-leaf soiled and slightly foxed; upper inner corner of all leaves rodent gnawed with small loss of paper, not touching text. Two small pin-type wormholes penetrating from back toward front of volume, stopping on p. 13; some bug-spotting on last blank leaf. One leaf unaccountably browned. Not a fine copy, certainly; definitely, one priced for its faults. (34649)
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