Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 315

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1626.) [Bernardino de Urrutia.] Protestacion que los vezinos de la Nueva-España . . . contra la sedicion y tumulto de la dicha ciudad. 16 leaves. Folio, modern boards; minor dampstaining and wear; faint early inscription on title page. Mexico, 1626
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An open petition by the Basque settlers of New Spain, protesting against rampant lawlessness. The Mexican slave revolt of 1612 ("alboroto de los negros") is discussed on leaf 2, and again in a letter spanning leaves 13 and 14. Provenance: Maggs catalogue 612 (1935), item 604 (catalog description laid down on front pastedown). Palau 239137 (citing this copy from the Maggs catalogue); not traced in Medina or Sabin. One in OCLC (Biblioteca Nacional de España), and none others traced at auction.