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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MEXICO--1731.) Compendio de noticias mexicanas . . . en la impression de las gazetas de Mexico. [12] (of 32), 3-295 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn, sticker on backstrip; lacking all 10 index leaves and first leaf of Issue #1, dampstaining to preliminaries; early owner's inscriptions on endpapers and title page, small inked "MM" stamps on verso of title and page 52. [México: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1728-31]
Issues 1 through 37 of the monthly Gazeta de Mexico, January 1728 to December 1730, issued in one volume with a collective title and preliminaries. The editor was Juan Francisco Sahagún de Arévalo. The Gazeta was the first periodical in New Spain, and these issues were preceded only by a handful issued in 1722. Medina, México 2979; Palau 285011; Sabin 48483 ("extremely rare and curious, being a collection of the first regular newspaper established in Spanish America"), 74944. None known at auction since 1986.
