Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 346

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEXICO.) Lazcano, Francisco Xavier. Opusculum Theophilosophicum de Principatu, seu Antelatione Marianae Gratiae. Plate of Christ and the saints, by Troncoso. [16], 150, [2] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear and dampstaining; early signature and later inked library stamp on title page. Mexico: Colegio de San Ildefonso, 1750

Additional Details

first edition of a work on the Virgin Mary. Palau credits the printer as Doña Maria de Ribera, but this copy's imprint line reads "Ex Typographia Regalis, & Antiquioris S. Ildefonsi Collegis," as described by Medina. Medina, Mexico 3999; Palau 133608. None known at auction since a Swann sale, 31 January 1980, lot 223.