Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 358

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Benito Crespo y Monroy. Edict banning the use and production of fermented beverages. Broadside, 16¾ x 12 inches, signed in manuscript "Ben'to ob'po dela Puebla" and the priest Diego Gonzalez Periañez, no docketing on verso; minor worming, folds; uncut. Puebla, 1 June 1735
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Edict by the Bishop of Puebla increasing the penalties for use and production of strong spirits such as "la tierra Tepachi, Guarapo, Vingui," fermented from "de Miel, ó Zumo de Cañas de Maiz, Zebada podrida, y otros simples como Piña" and even "Escremenno de Perros." Yes, that does translate to dog feces, and no, you should not need a law against drinking it. The edict elaborates on a previous 1725 edict which had been widely ignored. One in OCLC (National Library of Medicine), and none traced at auction since a Swann sale, 6 October 1988, lot 154.