Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 314

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1622.) Group of 4 17th-century Mexican imprints. Various sizes and bindings; generally worn. Mexico, 1622-1695
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["Sanctum provinciale concilium Mexici."] Illustrated secondary title page. [6], 102, 38, [1] leaves. Folio, contemporary vellum, minor wear; lacking title page, secondary title bound in front, minor dampstaining and worming. Mexico: Juan Ruiz, 1622. First edition of the comprehensive social code of New Spain decreed by the Third Mexican Concilium in 1585, largely concerned with missionary activities and the rights of the Indians. Each source collates the preliminaries of this work differently, but this copy has the usual 3-page Juan de la Serna dedication which was not noted by Medina, Palau, or Sabin. Medina, Mexico 343; Palau 293978; Sabin 48373; Szewczyk, 39 Books and Broadsides 29.

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. "Varon de desseos, en que se declaran las tres vias de la vida espiritual." [40], 97, [9], 90, [9], 113 leaves. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn; lacking free endpapers, with half-title, moderate worming and dampstaining, leaves 2-7 in final part supplied from another copy and unbound. Mexico: Francisco Robledo, 1642. First edition. Medina, Mexico 563; Palau 209614.

Pedro de la Vega. "La Rosa de Alexandria, entre flores de humanas, y divinas letras." Frontispiece portrait (lacking 2 inches from edge, with crude repair). [8], 155, [10] leaves. 4to, later 1/2 calf over marbled boards; leaf 3 misbound before leaf 1, several repairs, dampstaining towards rear. Mexico: Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, 1672. First edition of a biography of the fourth-century Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Medina, Mexico 1082; Palau 354967.

Clemente de Ledesma. "Dispertador de noticias de los santos sacramentos." [28], 378, [5] pages. 4to, early tree calf, minor wear; moderate dampstaining to early leaves; edges tinted red; marca de fuego on top edge. Mexico: Maria de Benavides, viuda e Juan de Ribera, 1695. Medina, Mexico 1599; Palau 134129.