Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 307

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CUBA.) Trespalacios y Verdeja, Felipe Joseph de. Edicto en que . . . corrige en su Dioscesis el abuso, y desorden con que se tocan las Campanas, y concurre á la moderacion con que la Real Pragmatica reduce la Pompa Funebre. [2], 22 pages. 4to, stitched, loose in early wallpaper wrapper; small hole in margin of last leaf; a few marginal annotations. Havana: Curia Episcopal y Real Colegio Seminario de San Carlos, 1792

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An edict by the Bishop of Havana, Florida and Louisiana restricting the use of bells at funerals. This first edition appears in Medina Havana 110, citing only the copy described in Bachiller in 1859. Not in Palau, Sabin, or WorldCat. A second edition issued in Madrid in 1794 appears in WorldCat with just one copy traced; none found at auction of either edition.