Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1678.) Juan Francisco de Montemayor y Cordoba. Sumarios de las cedulas, ordenes, y provisiones reales . . . para la Nueva-España. 3 parts in one volume. [9 of 10], 276; [1], 62; [1], 63, 53-60 leaves. Folio, contemporary vellum, minor wear; front hinge split, lacking free endpapers and half-title page, minor dampstaining, minor worming near end; disinfection tag on rear pastedown. Mexico: viuda de Bernardo Calderón, 1678

Additional Details

A revision of Aguiar y Acuña's 1628 "Sumarios de la recopilacion general de la leyes . . . para las Indias Occidentales," showing changes in the laws relating to New Spain in the intervening 50 years. Medina, Mexico 1174; Palau 178033 ("es obra importante"). 5 in OCLC, and none traced at auction.