(MEXICAN IMPRINT 1660) Carta Gabino Guia de confessores pra

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1660.) Carta, Gabino. Guia de confessores, practica de administrar los sacramentos, en especial el de la penitencia. Woodcut of Mary on second leaf. [6], 100 leaves (erratically numbered with final leaf misnumbered 110, but apparently complete). Small 8vo, contemporary vellum, minor wear; minor dampstaining; early inscriptions on front free endpaper and title page. Mexico: Viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1660

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Second Mexican edition of an important Jesuit guide for confessors in New Spain. "Explained that lust was the most evil emotion because it occasioned such heinous mortal sins as fornication, adultery, incest, rape (estupro), abduction (rapto), sins against nature, and sacrilege. Carta defined fornication as any sexual act outside the sacrament of marriage. He differentiated rape from abduction--the former as forced intercourse, the latter a violation compounded by the victim´s abduction. Having sex with a priest or nun or having sex in sacred places were but two of the sacrileges Carta had in mind when cautioned against excessive desire"--Ramón A. Gutiérrez, "A History of Latina/o Sexualities," pages 22-23. One other example of this first Mexican edition at auction. Medina, Mexico 775; Palau 46261.