Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(HABANA--1792.) Trespalacios y Verdeja, Felípe José de. Edicto . . . corrige en su dioscesis el abuso, y desorden con que se tocan las Campanas. [2], 22 pages. 4to, stitched, loose in early wallpaper wrapper; small hole in margin of last leaf; a few marginal annotations. La Habana: Curia Episcopal y Real Colegio Seminario de San Carlos, 1792

Additional Details

first edition. An edict by the Bishop of Havana, Florida and Louisiana restricting the use of bells at funerals. This first edition appears in Medina, Habana 110, citing only the copy described in Bachiller in 1859. Palau cites only the Madrid second edition, 340351. One copy in OCLC, one other copy known at auction (Swann sale, 16 April 2013, lot 307).