Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1622.) Sanctum provinciale concilium Mexici. Engraved title page and illustrated secondary title page. [5], 102, [1], 38, [1] leaves. Folio, contemporary vellum, minor wear, detached from text block; lacking free endpapers and final blank, minor dampstaining and edge wear, minor worming and foxing, third text leaf a bit short and apparently tipped in at an early date from another volume, early manuscript notes; later tag on title page, 1801 inscription on first text page. Mexico: Juan Ruiz, 1622

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first edition. The first publication of the comprehensive social code of New Spain decreed by the Third Mexican Concilium in 1585. Largely concerned with missionary activities and the rights of the Indians. Each source collates the preliminaries of this work differently, but this copy has an additional 3-page Juan de la Serna dedication which was apparently not seen by Medina, Palau, or Sabin. Medina, Mexico 343; Palau 293978; Sabin 48373 ("extremely rare"); Szewczyk, 39 Books and Broadsides 29.