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Sale 2687 - Lot 303

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MEXICO.) El nuevo tribunal de la Inquisicion. 4 pages. 8vo, 7½ x 4¾ inches, modern gilt calf; worming, folds. Mexico: Ontiveros, 1821
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A call for the voluntary destruction of all pamphlets which attack the new leadership of Mexico and the memory of Hidalgo. Addressed to the inhabitants of the "happy and independent America," it expresses gratitude to Agustín de Iturbide and calls upon the inhabitants to voluntarily hand over all anti-Independence publications "so that on the morning of the 27th of this month (memorable for us, as on the morning of the 27th we are going to swear the Independence of our homeland) they can be thrown into the fire forever, not by an executioner, but by the citizens who wish to perform this service for the homeland." As a gentle satire of the Inquisition's long-standing practice of burning forbidden books, this book-burning was to be strictly voluntary in a symbolic end to the New Spain regime. Not in Palau; 2 in OCLC and none traced at auction.

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