Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1774.) Saint Augustine; et al. Regla de N.P.S. Augustin. . . . Constituciones de la orden, bound with as issued Breve noticia de los enfermos, que se han curado, y fallecido en los conventos de la Religion de S. Juan de Dios. [18], 210; [4], 35, [16] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; lacking free endpapers, moderate dampstaining, moderate worming toward rear; faint marcas de fuego on all 3 edges. [Mexico]: José Juaregui, 1774

Additional Details

Mexican printing of the Rule of Saint Augustine, along with the regulations for the Order of Saint Augustine which had been active in Mexico since 1533. Concludes with a detailed report on the patients at Augustinian convent hospitals in Mexico from 1768 to 1773. Guerra 394, giving author as Pedro Rendon Cavallero; Medina, Mexico 5663; Sabin 68842. None others traced at auction.