Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646
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Sale 2646 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1566.) [Bartholomé de Ledesma.] [De septem novae legis sacramentis summarium.] [3] (of 4), 404, [16] leaves. 4to, later vellum, moderate wear; lacks title page, variable worming and dampstaining; edges speckled red; marcas de fuego on all three edges. [Mexico: Antonio de Espinosa, 1566]
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First edition. A treatise by the future Bishop of Oaxaca explaining seven sacraments for use in the Mexican church. It was later reprinted in Salamanca in 1585. This book was produced by Antonio de Espinosa, who was just the second printer in the New World and "the man who brought printing in Mexico to maturity" (Woodbridge, page 13). Includes consanguinity diagrams on leaves 352, 362, and 373, the first of them showing descent from Adam and Eve. García Icazbalceta 47; Medina, Mexico I:50; Palau 134124; Sabin 39677.