Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(FRANCISCANS.) Constituciones desta Provincia de San Gregorio de Philipinas de los Frayles Descalços de la Orden de los Menores de Nuestro Padre S. Francisco. 76, [4] leaves. Printed on Asian paper. 4to, 191x142 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, branded decoration on front cover, and remnants of thong ties; contents toned and fragile, clean tear in C3, C4 chipped along top and fore edges. Unidentified branded ownership mark on top and bottom edges. Bookplate of the Convento de San Francisco de México. Manila: Colegio de Santo Thomas de Aquino por Buenaventura Lampao, 1655

Additional Details

Medina/Manila 80 (not having seen a copy, citing Ternaux-Compans); Streit V, 874 and OCLC record only the British Library copy; not in Palau, CCPBE, Filipiniana Materials in the National Library (1972), or Union Catalog of Philippine Materials (1970-76), which locates only one copy of a 1696 edition.