Apr 13, 2023 - Sale 2633

Sale 2633 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--PUEBLA.) Group of 3 Puebla imprints. 3 volumes, various sizes and bindings. Puebla, 1650-1784
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[Alonso de Roxas.] "Al Rey Nuestro Senor . . . en satisfacion de un libro de el visitador Obispo D. Juan de Palafox." 278 pages plus final blank. 4to, later stiff vellum, minor soiling, slightly bowed; early wastepaper flyleaf, minor dampstaining to early leaves, minor wear, minor worming. First edition of a work on the ecclesiastical disputes which roiled New Spain in the 1640s, centered around Bishop Palafox. "Publicado en nombre de el Dean y Cabildo de su Iglesia Catedral de la Puebla de Los Angeles." Medina, BHA 6837; Palau 4329 and 209627; Sabin 73620. [Puebla or Mexico, circa 1650].

"Noticia de la fundacion de la congregacion, y cofradia . . . fundada en la iglesia de la santa Veracruz." [1], 11 leaves. 4to, disbound; folds, minor dampstaining at edges, lone wormhole in upper left, additional page numbers added in manuscript, partial marca de fuego. Not traced in Medina's Puebla, Palau, or OCLC. Puebla: Diego Fernandez de León, 1686.

"Catecismo y suma de la Doctrina Christiana, con declaracion de ella." [135] pages (8, A8-G8, H4). 16mo, contemporary calf, minor wear; minor dampstaining and foxing; edges tinted red; 1904 owner's notes on rear flyleaves. The catechism as decreed by the 1585 Concilio Provincial and revised in 1771. This edition follows the 1771 Mexico edition. Not in OCLC, and none traced at auction. Puebla: Pedro de la Rosa, 1784.