•  Evans 8400 & 8399; ESTC W33793. Good-quality 20th-century quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label, raised bands, and ornately handsome blind-stamping within compartments. Back fly-leaf with inked inscription dated 1782. Some browning and spotting; one early, inked marginal annotation.

Meade was, briefly, a member of the 3rd Philadelphia Battalion, but saw no military action himself; his grandson was Gen. George Gordon Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac.

•  On Meade, see: Dictionary of American Biography, XII, 473–74. Creased along folds, with a few ink blotches and very minor offsetting. Later pencilled note beneath signature.

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•  Contemporary mottled calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels, spine compartments with gilt-stamped floral decorations; covers mildly acid-pitted and considerably abraded, with leather lost at head of spine, corners, and joints. Spines with paper shelving labels or remnants thereof; front pastedowns each with bookplate. All edges marbled. Faint pencilled marginalia and bracketing; intermittent offsetting.  (22804)

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•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 13422.18. Contemporary mottled green paper over cartonneé covers: paper browned, torn, and chipped, especially along spine and edges. Uncut copy. Light soiling on deckle edges, endpapers, and title-page. Some light waterstaining in parts. Pencilled notes on front free endpaper.

The force behind this edition was archbishop Francisco Antonio Lorenzana (1722–1804), a patron of Hogal's press and of the arts, who soon after assuming the archbishopric of Mexico in 1766 saw the need for a concilium. In preparation for it he paid Hogal to publish or republish, as was the case, the acts of the first three provincial councils of Mexico, held respectively in 1555, 1565, and 1585; these appeared in 1769 and 1770. In 1771 he himself held the fourth Mexican provincial synod; ironically, those acts were not published until 1898.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5299; Palau 142387; Sabin 42063.   Recent Spanish sheep mottled in the Valenciana style. Occasional light waterstain in some upper margins, never in text. Paper crisp and printing very sharp. A very good copy.  (26797)

The Third Mexican Concilium, which was celebrated in Mexico city in 1585, had been called by Archbishop Moya de Contreras with the object of producing a comprehensive and compulsory social code for New Spain. The code was shaped, but only those rules directly affecting the conduct of priests (regular and secular) and nuns (cloistered and not) were promulgated.

The force behind this edition was archbishop Francisco Antonio Lorenzana (1722–1804), a patron of Hogal's press and of the arts, who soon after assuming the archbishopric of Mexico in 1766 saw the need for a concilium. In preparation for it, he paid Hogal to publish or republish, as was the case, the acts of the first three provincial councils of Mexico, held respectively in 1555, 1565, and 1585; these appeared in 1769 and 1770. In 1771 he himself held the fourth Mexican provincial synod; ironically, those acts were not published until 1898.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5361; Palau 142389; Sabin 42064 .   Recent Spanish sheep mottled in the Valenciana style. Minor worming at some inner margins, never in text. Paper crisp and printing very sharp. A very good copy.  (26794)

Printed in roman type with one decorative initial and a handsome woodcut of the royal coat of arms (as modified by Charles III) in the center at the top of the leaf.

No copy located via WorldCat, CCILA, or METABASE.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico; nor González de Cossío, Cien; nor González de Cossío, 510.   Old folds, small rent in lower blank margin. Waterstain in upper right corner and a big of soil along one fold.  (25800)

Sabin calls this work a “rare and valuable compendium of the old mining laws and mineral customs.” Galvez was a special commissioner charged with making reforms in the governing of Mexico; his work greatly influenced the 1786 replacement of the Mexican provinces with 12 intendencias. The 18th century saw a rebirth of the Mexican and the Peruvian silver industry as new technologies and techniques were introduced. Concomitant with the increased production was increased wealth for the mine owners and the crown.

•  Palau 251938a; Medina, Lima, 1636; Sabin 56260.   Recent calf bordered in gilt tooling, spine with gilt bands and floral devices in compartments, gilt-stamped leather title label; a few very small scuffs to covers. All edges sprinkled blue and red. Title-page recto and verso with inked ownership inscriptions in an early hand. Final leaf with repairs to outer edge; penultimate two leaves with lower corners torn away, outer edge of one with small chewed portion. Occasional spots of foxing. Two worm pinholes to title-page; more extensive worming to inner margins of central 20 leaves, on some pages touching text without affecting comprehensibility. Handsome.  (3039)

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•  Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien or 510; not in Harper, Americana Iberica.   Removed from a bound volume and left margin slightly irregular. Now in a quarter cloth (faux leather) folder with marbled paper sides.  (4773)

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•  ESTC T33656. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page verso with institutional presentation stamp. Pages with occasional stray pencil marks confined to inner margins, otherwise clean. Quite nice.

•  ESTC N45792; Sabin 50020; Howes M-727. Quarter blue morocco and blue cloth period-style, spine with gilt-stamped title within gilt-ruled raised bands and with gilt-stamped fleurons at head and foot. Title-page and several others stamped by a now-defunct institution; lacking final blank. Light waterstaining to lower outer margins of pages in latter half of book. A few pages with pencilled marginalia, in some instances offset onto opposing pages.

•  Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes, 915.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine gilt extra; overall rubbed, front cover with small nick to upper edge and short tear from joint now repaired, spine leather cracked with gilt rubbed yet stillvery nice to look at. Front pastedown with printed paper label (owner's name in blackletter) affixed, front free endpaper excised. Intermittent light spotting and staining, some pages browned.  (26907)

Binding: Contemporary treed calf; spines with gilt-stamped decorative bands and compartment devices, and with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. Edges gilt-rolled. All page edges stained yellow.

•  Bindings a little rubbed over joints and extremities, with a few instances of pinhole-type worming to back cover of vol. I; upper and outer edges dust-soiled. Some instances of light foxing. An attractive set.

An excellent, unsigned, copper engraving of Our Lady of Sorrows opposite the first page of the dedication represents each of the Seven Sorrows as a long sword piercing Her heart; “Meditacion I” with an absolutely charming headpiece.

No U.S. library reports ownership of this edition.

•  Medina, Mexico, 2685; DeBacker-Somervogel, V, 1275.   Contemporary vellum over paste boards, lacking the ties; vellum stained and worn through at board edges; text block loose in binding. Finger soiling in foremargins, old ink stains and some areas of light waterstaining here and there, some light foxing, instances of light dust-soiling. Ownership inscriptions in lower margins of two leaves inked over. Minor worming at inner margins at rear of book, touching some letters.  (26870)

Not the least of his accomplishments was the creation of two pueblo-hospitals for native Americans, and appended and integral to this biography are his “Reglas, y ordenanzas para el gobierno de los Hospitales de Santa Fé de México, y Michoacàn,” which occupy the final 29 pages.

Historians still consider this to be the definitive biography of Quiroga. The engraved portrait of him, handsome and from the burin of José Morales, adds a face to the words of the biographer and to the account of the deeds of the biographee.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5099; Wellcome, Medical Americana, M.134; Palau 181902; Beristain, III, 2059.   Contemporary limp vellum lacking ties. A very good copy.  (23061)

Of this first, 1797 American edition, vols. II–VI were printed 1798–99. Printed with ample notes, it has a series of chronological tables at the end. An eight- page Vindication of the Quakers disputing Mosheim's view of that denomination is also appended at the end of vol. VI, just before the list of subscribers. These latter include such noted names as John Adams, then President of the United States, and John Jay, then governor of New York.

•  Evans 32513 and 34154; ESTC W31794. On Mosheim, see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 944. Contemporary sheep, spine modestly gilt with nice gilt-lettered morocco labels and old-fashioned paper library shelf labels; leather scuffed of old and with joints open, sewing holding. Foxing, browning, and staining, variously, the latter obscuring letters in a few places without loss of sense; some endpapers partially detached. Bookplates on some pastedowns. Untattered and a good, useable set.

Uncommon. A search of ESTC, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956 finds only four U.S. holdings of this title. ESTC notes that this is a false imprint and that the work was likely printed in the Netherlands; one source suggests Lausanne.

•  ESTC T112988; Caillet, Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes..., 7879.   Recent quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped titles. Title-pages each with inked ownership inscription dated 1804 in lower margin, name lined through; first page of preface with inked numeral in lower margin. Upper outer corners rounded, with most of these (and some margins) browned in vol. I. All edges speckled blue and brown.  (23261)

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•  Goldsmith’s Kress 8390. On Muratori, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, X, 81. Contemporary vellum over paste boards with remnants of gilt label on spine; soiled, stained, and chipped with loss of top layer of vellum on rear cover and part of spine. Interior with light foxing, water- and other staining. Far from splendid, far from dead.

Rare.  No copies traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC or RLIN.

•  On Muretus, see: Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, II, 148–52. Contemporary half vellum over stencilled paper, spine with inked title; stained and paper torn with much chipping, especially on edges of covers. Ex-library with white-lettered call number on spines and, on title-pages, two different Catholic institutions’ rubber-stamps, plus the old inked ownership inscription of a Jesuit novitiate (Maryland). Ink scratches to frontispiece portrait (intentional?), and some inkstains in margins elsewhere. Lightly foxed. All edges speckled red.