(MEXICO 1594) A 16th century carta de poder from the Valtón

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(MEXICO--1594.) A 16th-century carta de poder from the Valtón collection. Partially-printed document signed, 4 pages, 31 x 21.3 cm, on one folded sheet, with printing on first page only in 35 lines of Roman type, the remainder completed in manuscript; disbound with marginal loss, leaves nearly detached, worming near bottom affecting 2 words of printed text, skillfully conserved. [México: Pedro Ocharte, completed in manuscript 21 March 1594]

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A power of attorney document with the printed text beginning "Sepan quantos esta carta vieren como yo . . . Generalmente, para en todos mis pleytos" as usual. Carptenter 32? Laid into a copy of the limited-edition reference work, as issued: Edwin H. Carpenter. A Sixteenth Century Mexican Broadside from the Collection of Emilio Valtón. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards; one of 140; small inked "MM" stamps. Los Angeles, 1965.