Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 325

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICO--1731.) Espinosa, Isidro Félix de. El cherubin custodio de el arbol de la vida, la Santa Cruz de Queretaro. Portrait plate by Joaquin Sotomayor. [24], 216 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; front edges of first few leaves a bit ragged with a few marginal repairs, minor worming in top margins, index leaf bound with preliminaries rather than at end. México: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1731

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A biography of Antonio de los Angeles, a Franciscan lay cleric in Queretaro. The author had previously served as a missionary in Texas. Medina, México 3173; Palau 82700. Provenance: Sloan auction, 16 February 2005, lot 20; no other copies known at auction.