Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 281

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(MEXICO--1590.) Group of 3 sixteenth-century Mexican cartas de poder. Partly printed documents signed, each about 31 x 21 cm, some with moderate worming or minor dampstaining. [México: Pedro de Ocharte, 1590-94]
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Three different printings, each with the printed text beginning as usual "Sepan quantos esta carta vieren como yo . . . Generalmente para en todos mis pleytos." The first in Gothic type, large capital initial "S" without border, 44 lines on one side, last line beginning "forma d drecho" [sic]. Probably Carpenter 15 or 16. Completed in manuscript on verso, Puebla, 14 September 1590 The second in Gothic type, large capital initial "S" without border, 44 lines on one side, last line beginning "dereche. E para lo auer." Probably Carpenter 15 or 16. Completed in manuscript on verso, 16 April[?] 1593 The third in Roman type, woodcut initial "S" with border (Carpenter type D), 33 lines on recto and 8 on verso, last line reading "mi persona y bienes avidos y por auer." Carpenter 26. Completed in manuscript on verso, México, 15 March 1594[?].