Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 359

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEXICO.) Pair of documents on the Compañia Lancasteriana, including a diploma signed by Benito Juarez. Juarez, Benito. Partially printed Document Signed as president, with lithograph illustration and paper seal. Diploma issued to Pascasio Lopez of Chalco. One page, 16 x 10 1/4 inches, plus integral blank leaf; moderate wear and foxing, tape repairs to edge of blank leaf. Mexico, 17 August 1869 * "Reglamento de la Compañia Lancasteriana de Mexico." 27 printed pages. 4to, original printed wrappers, moderate wear, partially torn along fold; minor dampstaining to contents. Mexico, 1869
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The Compañia Lancasteriana was an educational system imported to Mexico in 1821, following the principles of English reformer Joseph Lancaster. One paid instructor could teach as many as a thousand students, with the assistance of his more able students.