Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 349

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1786.) [Silvestre Diaz de la Vega.] Discurso sobre los dramas. [6], 16 pages. Folio, disbound; minor worming. [Mexico, 28 March 1786]

Additional Details

A treatise on theater. The caption title of the main section is "Discurso sobre el objeto de los dramas, sus diferentes clases, causas que por razon de una sana politica obligan á los principes á mantener en sus estados los espectáculos dramáticos, y las que han precisado al Superior Gobierno de esta capital México á la reforma y arréglo de su teatro."

An alternate printing is listed in Medina, Mexico 7632 with different line breaks in the titles, which also included additional material, paginated at 26, 44, 45 pages. This copy collates with the copies held at the University of New Mexico and the Biblioteca Nacional de España, per OCLC. None of either printing traced at auction since 1985.