Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 306

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1602.) Juan de Torquemada. Vida y milagros del sancto confessor de Christo, F. Sebastian de Aparicio. [22], 166 leaves. 8vo, later vellum; title page laid down, text block split after 3rd leaf with tape repair, wear, worming, moderate dampstaining, occasional manuscript notes, last few leaves torn from imperfect binding. Mexico: Diego Lopez Davalos, 1602

Additional Details

First edition of a life of the notable 16th-century Franciscan friar in Mexico, Sebastian de Aparicio y del Pardo (1502-1600), published not long after his death. Medina, Mexico 207; Sabin 96214. None traced at auction. No examples in OCLC, and only one of the 1605 Valladolid second edition.