(MEXICAN IMPRINT 1587) Constitutiones Ordinis Fratrum Eremi

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1587.) Constitutiones Ordinis Fratrum Eremitarum Sancti Augustini. Woodcut on page 9. 2-225, [41 of 43] leaves. 8vo, contemporary vellum, worn; endpapers renewed, lacking all 8 preliminary leaves, leaves A1, A8, Q8, T7, and index leaves Ll1 and Ll4, with title page in facsimile, leaf A2 quite defective, repairs to A3 and A4, leaf N8 detached but present, dampstaining; marca de fuego on bottom edge of the Convento de San Agustín de Puebla (BJML-1005.03), long early inscription on rear flyleaf, later inscription on front free endpaper. Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1587

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A Mexican printing of the regulations for the Order of St. Augustine, following an earlier printing from 1556. Garcia Icazbalceta 98; Medina, Mexico I:105; Palau 59840; Sabin 57519 ("an excessively rare production"); Wagner, Mexican Imprints in the Huntington Library 98. None known at auction since 1926, and 3 traced in OCLC.