Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 260
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(CHILE.) Alday y Aspée, Manuel de. Pair of orations by the Bishop of Santiago: Oracion . . . dixo en esta Santa Iglesia Metropolitana . . . sacala a luz . . . Estevan Joseph Gallegos * Oracion . . . dixo el dia 4 de enero de 1763 . . . sacala a luz . . . Estevan Joseph Gallegos. [5], 30; [2], 36 pages. 2 volumes in one. Small 4to, later stiff vellum, boards bowed; marginal repairs to first title page and third leaf, minor foxing, dampstaining to last 4 leaves. Lima: Niños Huerfanos, 1772

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Alday y Aspée was a famously conservative bishop, remembered for his diatribes against short skirts for women. Medina, Lima 1334, 1333.