Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 469

Price Realized: $ 750
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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1719.) Zúñiga y Guzmán, Balthazar de. Proclmation addressing the issue of widespread crime in Mexico. 4 pages, 12 x 8 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet of sealed paper, completed in manuscript and signed by the author as Viceroy of New Spain; moderate foxing, minor worming, folds; uncut. Mexico, 11 November 1719

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The text begins: "Don Balthazar de Zuñiga y Guzman, Sotomayor, y Mendoza. . . . Por quanto uno de los principales desvelos en mi Govierno, ha sido el solicitar se escusen pecados públicos y escandalosos, y extirpar el detestable vicio de Salteadores, y Ladrones, para que assi en esta Ciudad, como en el distrito de esta Governación puedan todos los vezinos vivir con el seguro de sus vidas." In response to an epidemic of robberies, it grants citizens the power to arrest and detain thieves without going through the local authorities. None traced in OCLC, Medina, or at auction.