Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MEXICO--INDEPENDENCE.) Venégas de Saavedra, Francisco Xavier. Intimamente persuadido el Consejo Supremo de Regencia . . . Letterpress broadside composed from three sheets pasted together as issued, 28 x 17 inches; top sheet printed on light green paper with official letterhead stamped on verso, minor worming and edge wear, 6-inch closed tear; signed in type by Venégas with his manuscript rubric, and signed in manuscript by his secretary Josef Ygno Negreyros y Soria. Mexico, 22 September 1810

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The Viceroy urges loyalty to Spain, just six days after the Grito de Delores had launched the Mexican independence movement. Not in Medina Mexico, Palau, or Sabin. One copy in WorldCat.