Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 307

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MEXICO.) Moreno, Juan Jose. Fragmentos de la Vida, y Virtudes del . . . Vasco de Quiroga. Portrait plate. 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear, lacking one leather tie; very faint dampstaining; marca de fuego on top edge. Mexico: Antiguo Colegio de S. Ildefonso, 1766

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first edition. A life of Vasco de Quiroga, the first bishop of Michoacán from 1536 until his death in 1565, whose influence still continues in the area. With an appendix of his most important work, "Reglas y Ordenanzas para el gobierno de los Hospitales de Santa Fé de Mexico." Medina, Mexico 5099; Palau 181902; Sabin 50611.