(BOGOTA 1782) [Caballero y Góngora Antonio] [Edicto para ma

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(BOGOTA--1782.) [Caballero y Góngora, Antonio.] [Edicto para manifestar al publico el indulto general . . . a todos los comprehendidos en las revoluciones.] xix pages. Folio, modern marbled boards; lacking title page (facsimile laid in), later notes in purple ink on first page and elsewhere; signed on final page for the author. [Bogotá: Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros?], 7 August 1782

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A pardon issued by the viceroy of New Grenada to the participants in the Comuneros insurrection. The rebellion's leader José Antonio Galán had already been decapitated, drawn and quartered, but by this decree his body was to be removed from public display and given a Christian burial. This early example of Bogotá printing is illustrated with an engraving of the Viceroy's seal, believed to be the first engraving printed in what is now Colombia. Medina, Bogotá 7. Provenance: Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company.