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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
Villaseñor y Sánchez, José Antonio (1703-1759) Theatro Americano. Descripcion General de los Reynos, y Provincias de la Nueva-España, y sus Jurisdicciones.
Mexico [City]: en la imprenta de la viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1746-1748.
First edition, two folio volumes, lacking engraved title; typographical title pages printed in red and black, within complicated border made up of small type ornaments; bound in modern uniform dark calf, neatly gilt with two lettering pieces on each spine, untrimmed, with original edge coloring in red; some minor occasional worming, contents crisp, 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (2)
A detailed compilation of fresh information on the towns and missions of New Spain. The last half of the second volume contains reports on California, Texas, New Mexico, and other frontier provinces, printed by "perhaps the most important printer in Mexico City from 1741 to 1755," Rosa Maria Teresa de Poveda, widow of Hogal. (https://bridwell.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fiftywomen/laterprinters/widowhogal)
Medina Mexico 3802; Palau 368823; Sabin 99686; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 118 ("valuable for the many notices which it contains of the towns and mines in northern Mexico").
