(MEXICO) Ramírez Aparicio Manuel Los conventos suprimidos en

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(MEXICO.) Ramírez Aparicio, Manuel. Los conventos suprimidos en Méjico: Estudios biograficos, historicos y arqueologicos. Chromolithograph additional title page dated 1862, 32 lithograph plates. 525, [3] pages. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, moderate wear; unrelated pencil sketch on half-title, lacking free endpapers, moderate foxing, some plate titles cropped. Mexico, 1861 [1862]

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First edition. A history of several early Mexican convents and their architecture, which were then being suppressed or destroyed under the rule of Benito Juarez. Includes sections on the convents of Santo Domingo, La Encarnación, La Piedad, Azcapotzalco, Porta Coeli, San Francisco, La Concepción, Santiago Tlatelolco, Santa Clara, San Cosme and Santa Isabel. Important leaders are also discussed, including the Texan missionary Antonio Margil. Palau 246904; Sabin 67657.