(MEXICAN EARLY IMPRINTS) Vetancurt Agustin de Chronica de la

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(MEXICAN EARLY IMPRINTS.) Vetancurt, Agustin de. Chronica de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de Mexico, bound with the separately titled and paginated Menologio Franciscano, and the separately issued appendix Tratado de la Ciudad de Mexico. Folio, contemporary vellum, worn; title page worn and stained with slight loss to decorative border, moderate soiling and marginal wear throughout, a bit of marginal worming, dampstaining on last 12 leaves, final 6 leaves lacking bottom corner with some loss of text; inscriptions of early owner Fr. Manuel Farias on verso of title page and elsewhere. Mexico, 1697

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first edition. The final three parts of Vetancurt's six-part Teatro Mexicano. "Gives the history of the Franciscans in New Spain, notably of the mother provincia, interspersed with much matter on military expeditions, founding of towns, and so forth"--Bancroft, History of Mexico III:507. Appendices include biographies of prominent Franciscans, and histories of Mexico City and Puebla. Medina, Mexico 1684; Palau 361218, 361219; Sabin 99386, 99389.