(MEXICAN IMPRINT 1637) Fernando de Cepeda; and Fernando Car

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1637.) Fernando de Cepeda; and Fernando Carrillo. Relacion universal, legitima y verdadera del sitio en que esta fundada la . . . Ciudad de Mexico. [2], 31; 42; 17 [of 39] leaves. 3 [of 4] parts in one. Folio, later vellum, minor wear; fore-edges of leaves A1-C1 worn with some loss to sidenotes, leaves P1 and P2 transposed, minor dampstaining, lacking the last 22 leaves of Part III and the 11 leaves of Part IV, two leaves at end supplied in manuscript transcript. Mexico: Francisco Salbago, 1637

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An incomplete copy of an important book which describes engineering efforts in early 17th-century Mexico. "This very rare book contains an official account of the celebrated Desague, or canal of Gueguetoca . . . which was constructed to carry off the superabundant waters of the lake of Mexico"--Rich 216. Medina, Mexico 484; Palau 51558; Sabin 11693.