Macerata: Heirs of Agostino Grisei, 1653.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in 17th c. limp sheepskin parchment. With a large woodcut Jesuit device on the title page, woodcut initial, and a factotum built up from fleurons. There is a neatly written contemporary inscription of a Roman Jesuit library on the title page; some leaves foxed or lightly browned; there is...
Puebla: En la Imprenta Plantiniana de Diego Fernández de Leon, 1691.
Price: $3,800.00
Modern wrappers. Original sewing preserved. Some foxing, cut close at head, page numbers added in ink. Extremely rare. Two copies located in OCLC, one in Germany, the other in Mexico.A rare funeral sermon for the Pueblan aristocrat Doña Nicolasa Núñez Zenteno, wife of the mayor of the port of Veracruz...
Boston: Printed by [Gamaliel] Rogers and [Daniel] Fowle, for N[athanael]. Procter at the Bible and Dove in Ann-Street, 1744.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in contemporary American calf, ruled in blind, over thin wooden boards (scuffed and with wear to extremities). Very good internally with a few minor stains, a couple of marginal tears and a longer tear entering the text on leaf F5 (no loss.) Provenance: with the contemporary ownership inscription, “Joseph...
Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.
Price: $10,600.00
Bound in original limp vellum, re-cased, endpapers renewed. A nice copy with light scattered stains. Provenance: small collector’s stamp “G” on title.Sole edition of this important translation of the Catholic catechism into Nahuatl, which marks a significant development in translation theory and practice. Father Pérez was one of Mexico's leading...
N.p. [Madrid], 1750.
Price: $2,900.00
A very rare and attractive broadside papal bull, embellished with four woodcuts: Saints Paul and Francis, the arms of the reigning pope (Pope Benedict XIV), the arms and xylographic signature of Francisco Pérez de Prado y Cuesta (1678-1755), Commissar General of the Holy Crusade and Grand Inquisitor; and the cross...
Mexico: Ex novâ Typographiâ editioni Bibliothecae Mexicanae destinatâ, 1759.
Price: $5,600.00
. Bound in contemporary vellum, defects to vellum of upper board; internally very clean and broad margined with some soiling on A4 verso only. Printed in a large handsome type (mostly sixteenth-century roman), text in Latin and Spanish, pagination includes a copper-engraved frontispiece. In the text there is a fine...
Venice: Appresso Gio. Bernardo Sessa, 1598.
Price: $14,000.00
Bound in 19th c. diced Russia (minor wear, corners bumped), the boards framed with a triple filet and corner ornaments, gilt. Spine ruled and tooled in gold. A good copy, cut close at head, with occ. headlines or borders slightly shaved; text lightly soiled throughout, a bit more pronounced in...
