Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 291

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1782.) Mayorga, Martín de. Ordenanza de la division de la nobilisima ciudad de Mexico en quarteles, creacion de los alcaldes de ellos, y reglas de su govierno, bound with 11 other ordinances (one in manuscript), and a manuscript table of contents, dated 1724-1806. Hand-colored folding map of Mexico City. [2], 41, [1] pages. Folio, later mottled calf, minor wear; map cropped with loss of perhaps half an inch on bottom edge; various ownership markings of noted collectors José Fernando Ramírez and José María Andrade, a 1937 Oklahoma collector, and a defunct Oklahoma college. Mexico: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1782

Additional Details

first edition. The map was done by Manuel Villavicencio, and is titled "La nobilisima Ciudad de Mexico dividida en quarteles." A key is provided on the facing page. Medina, Mexico 7346; Palau 203062; Sabin 47199.
Bound with the ordinance are 10 other printed Mexican ordinances relating to the administration of Mexico City. Highlights include: "Ordenanzas para la Real Casa de Moneda de Mexico" (1724) "Ordenanazas de el nobilissimo arte de la plateria" (1746) "Ordenanzas del juzgado general privativo de bebidas prohibidas" (1782) and an untitled 15-page compilation of ordinances relating to pulquerias dated 25 January 1793 (Medina, Mexico 8200). The volume concludes with a 69-page manuscript titled "Ordenanzas de la Real Loteria de Nueva Espana" (1791). A complete list is available upon request.