(MEXICAN EARLY IMPRINTS) Sepan quantos esta carta vieren com

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EARLY AMERICAN PRINTING, BEFORE THE ENGLISH COLONIES (MEXICAN EARLY IMPRINTS.) Sepan quantos esta carta vieren, como yo . . . 2 pages on one leaf, 12 x 8 1/2 inches; dampstained, a light smudge, several wormholes, worn at edges. [Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, circa 1580-90]

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A blank carta de poder (power of attorney) form. This exact form is not recorded in Szewczyk's "39 Books and Broadsides Printed in America before the Bay Psalm Book," but is very similar to his #13, printed by 1584. The present copy has the comma after "vieren" in the first line, rather than before, and the second line concludes "negocios ceuiles y" rather than "negocios ceuiles è cri-". While the typesetting is altered, the typeface remains the same, including the initial woodblock capital "S" carried over from similar forms in use since 1562, and here printed upside down.