Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 315

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MEXICO--HISTORY.) Francisco de Florencia. Narracion de la marabillosa aparicion que hizo el archangel San Miguel. Full-page engraving on verso of title page. [8], 194, [4] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear, stain on front wrapper; minor dampstaining near end; edges tinted red; early inscriptions on front free endpaper, small marca de fuega of a cross on top edge, later owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Seville, Spain: Siete Revueltas, circa 1740
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Second edition. The Jesuit Francisco de Florencia (1619–1695) was the first Florida-born author. Here he describes an apparition which appeared in 1631 to an Indian named Diego Lázaro de San Francisco who lived on the Puebla–Tlaxcala border in Mexico. Miracles are recounted, and a full-page woodcut of St. Michael appears on the verso of the title page. A few lines in Nahuatl can be found on page 119. European Americana 740/121; Medina, BHA 6467; Palau 92347; Sabin 24815. The preliminaries are carried over from the 1692 Lopez de Haro first edition, dated 1690 and 1692, but European Americana places this Siete Revueltas edition as circa 1740. This copy appeared previously at auction in 1999 and 2017. No other examples of any edition traced at auction since 1979.