Apr 13, 2023 - Sale 2633

Sale 2633 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 812
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1647.) Group of 4 17th-century Mexican imprints. 4 volumes, 4to or 8vo, early vellum or 1/4 calf; condition varies. Mexico, 1647-1684
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Pedro Salmerón. "Ceremonial de las ceremonias del santo sacrificio de la missa." [8], 99 leaves. 8vo, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; lacking free endpapers, minor foxing, minor dampstaining; edges speckled red with some excess on title page; partial marca de fuego on top edge, early owner's inscription and later inked owner's stamp on title page. A handbook on the Mass. Medina, Mexico 659; Palau 287755. Mexico: Francisco Robledo, 1647.

Juan de la Torre y Castro. "Oración evangélica con que la doctissima, ilustre y Real Universidad de México . . . celebró en su capilla." [5], 15 leaves. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn; contents worn without loss of text, dampstaining, lacking free endpapers. Medina, Mexico 823; Palau 335549. One in OCLC and none traced at auction. Mexico: viuda de Bernardo Calderón, 1655.

Estevan García. "El maximo limosnero, mayor padre de pobres, grande arçobispo de Valencia . . . Thomas de Villanueva." [8], 85 [i.e. 95], [1] leaves. 4to, later 1/4 calf, minor wear; minor worming, intermittent minor dampstaining, leaf A5 slightly defective; ownership tag of collector and bibliographer José María Andrade on front pastedown. The life of Augustinian ascetic St. Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555), Archbishop of Valencia, for whom Villanova University was named. He is named as a saint on the title page, a year in advance of his actual canonization. The author was an Augustinian friar from Puebla. Medina, Mexico 842; Palau 97857 (calls for 9 preliminary leaves). None others traced at auction. Mexico: viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1657.

Raymundo Lumbier. "Noticia de las Sesenta, y Cinco Proposiciones Nuevamente Condenasas por . . . Inocencio XI." [10], 125, 33, [1] leaves. 4to, contemporary vellum, moderate wear, detached from text block; first gathering detached, minor foxing and dampstaining, moderate wear to final leaf, lacking rear free endpaper; marca de fuego on bottom edge, early inscriptions on front free endpaper and verso of title page. 7th edition. A report on a 1679 papal bull by Pope Innocent XI which condemned (among other things) a more liberal approach to abortion. Medina, Mexico 1312; Palau 143969n. Mexico: Juan de Ribera, 1684.