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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MEXICO.) Ayeta, Francisco de. Crisol de la Verdad . . . in Defensa de dicha su Provincia. Folio, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; heavy dampstaining on fore-edge, endpapers worn, lacking frontispiece, half-title and final errata leaf; marca de fuego on top edge. [Madrid, 1693?]
unexpurgated first issue. A controversial work on the missions in New Spain, suppressed by authorities in Mexico. The New Mexico and California missions are discussed on leaves 32 and 33, and Florida is discussed as well. Some copies of this book are censored with the loss of three leaves, but this copy has the original leaves 324, 325, and 341. JCB, page 263; Medina, BHA 6240; Palau 20802. No other copies known at auction since Puttick & Simpson in 1869.
