Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MEXICO--1623.) Nos los inquisidores contra la heretica pravedad y apostasia en la ciudad de Mexico, estados, y pruincias desta Nuevaespaña, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Nueva Galicia, Yucatan, Islas, Philippinas, y sus cercanias. Letterpress broadside with decorative border and woodcut initial, 41.5 x 31 cm; minor worming, small tear in left margin, minimal dampstaining in right margin; signed in manuscript by Mexican inquisitors Juan Gutiérrez Flores and Francisco Bazan de Albornoz. [México?], 3 August 1623
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An edict issued by the Inquisition. Among other things, it orders that certain passages be deleted from all copies of two European books: Nancel's Trachyeni Noviodunensis (Paris, 1611) and Espinel's Relaciones de la Vida del Escudero Marcos de Obregon (Madrid, 1618). This broadside does not appear in Medina, México or Palau; none in OCLC; none known at auction.