Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 351

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MEXICO--1755.) Florencia, Francisco de. Zodiaco Mariano, en que el Sol de Justicia Christo. 4to, later 1/2 calf, moderate wear, chip to base of backstrip; title page laid down on a 1763 print, first two leaves extended and tipped in, moderate worming toward rear, tightly trimmed with an occasional headline grazed, endpapers stained and worn; early inscriptions on title page. México: Colegio de San Ildefonso, 1755

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Tracks the appearances of the Virgin Mary throughout Mexico. "A work of considerable importance for the ecclesiastical history of Spanish North America. . . . The details are narrated with great fullness, with names, dates, and circumstances, with authorities and bibliographical citations"--Stevens 2545. The Our Lady of Guadalupe print affixed to the verso of the title page was done by José Benitez Ortuño in Mexico in 1763. Medina, México 4246; Palau 92355; Sabin 24819.