Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 360

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1762.) Juan Díaz de Arce. Libro de la vida del proximo evangelico, el vener. Padre Bernardino Alvarez. 2 (of 3) plates. [12], 464, [7] pages. 4to, later 1/4 morocco, moderate wear; slip of paper covering one line on first preliminary page, minor foxing, moderate worming toward rear. Mexico: Christóbal y Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1762
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Second edition. Life of the 16th-century founder of the first psychiatric hospital in the Americas. Medina, México 4775; Palau 72257. No other examples of either edition known at auction since 1947.

Bound with a related Spanish imprint: Regla de San Augustin Obispo. Third edition, 170, [2], 19 pages. Engraved title page, plus second title page reading "Actas hechas por la religion de N. Padre San Juan de Dios"; final leaf lacking blank lower corner. Palau 254033. [Madrid, 1733].

Provenance: Swann's Michael Mathes sale, 6 November 2014, lot 366, to the consignor.