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xxi+362 pages with 2 maps, 10 figures, 323 tables, appendixes, glossary, selected bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine. in original jacket. First edition.This work uncovers much that was not previously known about the Bourbon government's management of the tobacco monopoly and the problems and limitations it faced. Deans-Smith finds that there was as much continuity as change after the monopoly's establishment, and that the popular response was characterized by accommodation, as well as defiance and resistance. She argues that the problems experienced by the monopoly at the beginning of the nineteenth century did not originate from any simmering, entrenched opposition. Rather, an emphasis upon political stability and short-term profits prevented any innovative reforms that might have improved the monopoly's long-term performance and productivity. With detailed quantitative data and rare material on the urban… Read More

[12]+160+[7] leaves with 2 woodcut illustrations. Small quarto (7 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original contemporary vellum with hand written title to spine. (Woodbridge, Printing in Colonial Spanish America, page 26). Medina, Mexico 260; Palau 135423; Pilling 2252; Sabin 40080 ("extremely scarce") First edition. An early catechism, confessional, and church calendar in Nahuatl, with Spanish on facing pages in some parts.
This was the last known book printed by Dávalos, who used the type and press inherited from his father-in-law Antonio de Espinosa, the second printer in the New World. The printing press at the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Santiago Tlatelolco or Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco was established by Maria de Sansoric or Sansores, second widow of Pedro Ocharte, in the year 1597. Its importance lies in the publication of religious works translated from Spanish into Nahuatl and other native languages ​​for the Christianization of the inhabitants of New Spain in 1601, it is believed that… Read More

156 pages with figures, plates and bibliography. Royal octavo square (9 1/2" x 9 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.The town of San Francisco de Campeche was founded in 1540 and during the first two centuries of the colonies served as one of the key Mexican ports of the Spanish Empire. The author has combed through archival written documents, architectural plans, maps, ceramic artifacts, and bioarchaeological data from human remains recovered at the original Catholic cemetery to reconstruct a dramatic story of colonial life and death. he documents reveal the religious and political strategies used by the Spanish Crown to implant European society; the skeletal evidence traces the human side of the story: physical hardship, the ravages of disease, body modifications (especially of teeth) to denote status, and forced assimilation of both natives and Africans. These nuanced discussions and insights reveal much about the complex, multiracial tapestry of the early Colonial… Read More

[4]+676 pages with errata f after title, signature 4H duplicated. Small quarto (8 x 5 3/4") bound in later limp vellum with lettering to spine. (Furlong II, 367; Gutierrez 54; Medina 130; Palau 289494;Sabin 75976) First edition.
San Alberto entered the Discalced Carmelites of Aragon at an early age, taught for many years in Huesca and Calatayud, and filled a number of administrative positions in the order. Made bishop of Córdoba in Tucumán, he took charge of his diocese in 1778; in 1786 he was in charge of the Archdiocese of La Plata (now Sucre, in Bolivia). His letters, printed in Colección de instrucciones pastorales (Madrid 1786), indicate his pastoral knowledge. The letter written to the pastors of Córdoba in 1778 began with an explanation of the biblical and historical ecclesiastical origins of the parish ministry, emphasizing its dignity and its duties. He warned the faithful against mere ritualism and urged them toward inner sanctity. Another pastoral referred to the orphanages founded in… Read More

Carta-Relacion de Diego Garci de Palacio a Felipe II sobre la Provincia de Guatemala 8 de Marzo de 1576 68 pages with facsimile, map and fold out table. Relacion y Forma que el Licenciado Palacio Oidor de la Real Audiencia de Guatemala, hizo para los que Hubieren de Vistar, Contar, Tasar y Repartir en las Provincias de este Distrito [69]-172 pages with facsimile, appendices, bibliography and index. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original wrappers. Preliminary, appendices, map and index by Carmen Leon Cazares, Martha Ilia Najera C and Tolita Figueroa. Paleography by Carmen Leon Cazares, Limited to 3000 copies. First edition.Diego García de Palacio was born into a family of sailors and completed studies. He specialized in the areas of China and the Philippines (papers touching on the islands of the West); it is not known why he changed his occupation to the letters and law, but without abandoning its previous interest. He served on the Council of the Indies and in 1572 was appointed… Read More

429 pages with frontispiece, maps (many in color), photographs, charts, bibliography and index. Square quarto (11" x 11 1/2") bound in original publisher's mustard yellow cloth with blind-stamped lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. First edition limited to 2000 copies.Mapping hydraulic Michoacan This book is a compendium bringing together the copies of art and graphic art devoted to capture the realities of some of the Michoacan landscapes on a small, flat surface, either general, regional or thematic nature. Michoacan historical hydrological mapping theme in this book is on display in separate sheets accompanied by introductory work consisting of the presentation on the historical setting of the state, followed by a documentary descriptive and interpretive reading of the characteristics of their geography and in it its main river and lake basins.Condition:A fine copy in like jacket.

69 pages with tables (one folding). Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7 1/2") bound in three quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine, wrappers bound in. prologue by J Ignacio Rubio Mane. From the library of George M Foster. Second edition. Two works Catalogo de los curators y misiones de la Nueva España originally published in 1813 and Memoria sobre la poblacion del Reino de Nueva España published in 1820 (Howes N25 ("aa"); Medina, México 11925; Palau 188524; Sabin 52111) are reprinted for the first time in one volume. Just before independence, an effort to calculate the population of Mexico's population as of 1810. Alta California is listed with 19 missions and a population of 20,781--mostly Indians. Tejas is given a population of 3,334. George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he… Read More

[28], 248 pages. Quarto (8 1/4" x 6") bound in contemporary vellum. (Medina, Mexico 2719 ("interesante"); Palau 219407; Pilling 2957; Sabin 60912) First edition. A lesser-known work by the author of Farol Indiana, offering a translation of the Roman catechism into both Spanish and Nahuatl. In his "Nahuatl translation", Manuel Pérez often demonstrates that some words are difficult to translate, or even that there is no equivalent at hand at all. Translating the Spanish words for 'the angels, mankind, the heavens, and the elements', he breaks off to explain that 'there is no word for elements.' In reflection on the suffering and death of Jesus Christ, he notes in the middle of his Nahuatl text that 'the Spanish equivalent of the Latin verb 'impello' should not be translated into Nahuatl where the original is used, since they may think that he died involuntarily.As this example demonstrates, Pérez attempts to avoid any possible ambiguous interpretation and he makes an important step, seen from the… Read More

Cedula in six leaves, printed on both sides with seal of the King in the last page. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") housed in hand crafted enclosure by Octavye. First edition.
Content of the Cedula. The King attempts to make the Spanish the unique and universal language in his domains: "The Indians be instructed in the dogmas of our religion in Spanish, and they are taught to read and write in this language, which must be extended and made unique, and universal in the same domains, as it is that of the Monarchs and Conquerors, to facilitate the administration, spiritual passage to the Naturals, and that these can be understood by the superiors ..."
The Cedula emphasizes the reluctance of the indigenous people to use Spanish and their inclination to maintain their own language, so they do not send their children to schools and go to the extreme of resisting speaking Spanish even though they know it. This attitude shows, according to the king, "something of malice" born in the desire of the natives to hide their… Read More

12 pages with crest to title page. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8") single folded sheet housed in a custom made enclosure. First edition.Cedula (Latin) means, in general, an order or authorization; in earlier times such a document on the authority of the king, or a royal decree, which for Spain and Spanish America was a decree issued directly by the monarch.During the second half of the eighteenth century the Spanish Crown monopolized the tobacco industry in its American colonies, creating vertically integrated organisations which included factories for the production of cigars and cigarettes. Few economic activities were more vital to the development of the Spanish American economies that the cultivation, manufacture and commercialization of tobacco. Tobacco was the second most important export industry in Spanish America at the time. The decision of the Bourbon monarchs to monopolize the industry was a critical component of their plan to increase government revenues through a renewed contract with the… Read More

[3]+66+[1] leaves. Small octavo (6" x 4") bound early vellum with later ties. (Ayer, Nahuatl page 81; Medina, Puebla 1678; Palau 55072; Pilling 808; Sabin 13233) First edition.
A catechism in a more modern colloquial form of Nahuatl, as opposed to the more formal classical Nahuatl featured in the early colonial works. The Nahuatl and Spanish texts appear on facing pages. One of the last Catechisms printed in the Native Mexican language during the Spanish domination of Mexico. The author's aim was to make accessible to the 'pobrecitos indios' the 'divina palabra' in Nahuatl and Spanish. He thus employs contemporary Spanish rather than that of the 'siglo de la conquista, que por sublime les sería desconocido' so that 'pueda servir de libro general de las escuelas'. The author of the book is commonly described as unknown. However, in the Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús, attributes it to the Mexican Jesuit Luis Gutierrez del Corral who was one of the 'jesuitas mexicanos más notables de… Read More

2 volumes. xvi+542 pages with color frontispiece, maps (some foldout), diagrams, and illustrations. 540 pages with frontispiece, folding maps, plates, figures, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") bound in original wrappers. (Howes 382) Limited to 2000 copies.
Vito Alessio Robles was born son of Dominic Alessio and Cristina Robles. He studied at the Ateneo Fuente. He graduated as an engineer at the Military College of Mexico City. In 1910, a lieutenant colonel in the Federal Army under the command of Colonel Samuel Garcia Cuellar, fought Madero in the Battle of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. Before he had taken up arms against the Yaquis. Under Madero, he served as Inspector General of Police, Public Works and deputy military attaché in Rome. n 1913 he returned to Italy as a result of the fall of Madero. Under the Victoriano Huerta presidency, he was arrested and detained and imprisoned. Following this he joined the Constitutionalist ranks, first operated in San Luis Potosi under the command… Read More

xvi+331 pages with map, tables, graphs, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Translated by Richard Warren. First American edition.

In this revised version of his doctoral thesis, Tandeter examines the resurgence of silver production from the famous silver mines of Potosi (Bolivia) between the 1730s and the 1790s, shedding light not only on the changes which explain this upturn, but also on the traditional structures that survived through the entire colonial period. Translated from the Spanish-language edition of 1992, published simultaneously in Cusco (Peru) and in Buenos Aires.

Condition: Near fine.

[11 unnumbered]+284 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original period vellum with hand written to spine with original ties. Housed in a custom quarter leather constructed slips case. (Medina, México 5923; Palau 56598; Sabin 67658) First printed in 1685 and brought up to date in this revised edition. A comprehensive account of the organization of the Bishopric of Michoacan are provided by these Ordenanzas, originally published in 1685 and brought up to date in this revised edition by Casillas y Cabrera, Oficial mayor de la Secretaría del Obispado. They contain both the Ordenanzas issued in 1642 by Fr. Marcos Ramirez de Prado, bishop of Michoacan 1639,1666, and the much more extensive and detailed Ordenanzas issued by Juan de Ortega Montañez, bishop of Michoacan, Inquisitor of the Tribunal del Santo Oficio de México and Viceroy of New Spain (27,02,1696 a 18,12,1696). Both Ramirez and Ortega Montañez were concerned with the relationship between the clergy and the secular authorities,… Read More

2 volumes in one. [4]+656 pages with armorial engraving on title page. [2]+185+[13] pages. Folio (11" x 7 1/2) bound in later 1/2 calf with gilt lettering to spine. (Sabin 23592, 66551. Medina, Puebla 860; Palau 56648) First edition.
It contains a collection of rules and ordinances for civil and religious conduct in Puebla, based on the third Mexican Council of 1585. It includes questions related to the way of treating the Indians, the use of indigenous languages, the prohibition of gambling, the rules for the use of tobacco, as well as other ordinances related to daily customs. Starting the second volume Collection of Providences given for the five convents of Religious Calzadas in the city of Puebla de los Angeles.
Francisco Fabián y Fuero was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop. He studied in Calatayud and Alcalá, and was at different times rector of the colleges of San Antonio de Siguenza and Santa Cruz, in Valladolid. He was appointed bishop of Puebla, Mexico, in 1764, and was present at the fourth… Read More

[11 unnumbered]+284 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original period vellum with hand written to spine with original ties. (Medina, México 5923; Palau 56598; Sabin 67658) First printed in 1685 and brought up to date in this revised edition. A comprehensive account of the organization of the Bishopric of Michoacan are provided by these Ordenanzas, originally published in 1685 and brought up to date in this revised edition by Casillas y Cabrera, Oficial mayor de la Secretaría del Obispado. They contain both the Ordenanzas issued in 1642 by Fr. Marcos Ramirez de Prado, bishop of Michoacan 1639,1666, and the much more extensive and detailed Ordenanzas issued by Juan de Ortega Montañez, bishop of Michoacan, Inquisitor of the Tribunal del Santo Oficio de México and Viceroy of New Spain (27,02,1696 a 18,12,1696). Both Ramirez and Ortega Montañez were concerned with the relationship between the clergy and the secular authorities, the reform of abuses and the need for the clergy to be above… Read More

386-409 pages. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. The Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume XXI, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Other articles: Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth: History fo a Geographic Myth by Leonardo Olschki; Antonio de San Jose Muro: Political Economist of New Spain by John S Fox; The Historic Gaucho by Madaline W Nichols; Documents: A French Document on Rio de Janeiro, 1748 by Manoel da Silveira Soares Cardoza. Condition: Corners bumped, edge wear, spine ends rubbed else very good.

530 pages with bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's light brown cloth with brown lettering to spine in original jacket. Translated by Suzette Macedo. From the library of Dr Donald Worcester with his stamp on front end paper and end pages. First American edition.In this astute analysis of his native country, Prado indicates that the first requirement for an understanding of present day Brazil is a rigorous inquiry into the formative colonial period and, more particularly, into the situation that existed on the verge of independence. At that time, there came into question not only the regime of colonial subordination but the whole complex of institutions, which had become ripe for changes of a profound order. By concentrating on the beginning of the nineteenth century, when colonial institutions had exhausted their potential for development and where proving inadequate to handle the economic and social problems of the country, Prado exposes the roots of… Read More

xxvi+493 pages with frontispiece, index, bibliography and 395 plates. Quarto (11 1/4" x 9"). bound in original publisher's gold cloth with black and gilt decorative lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann from the second Spanish edition. First American edition.The three hundred years between conquest by Spain and the winning of independence saw a special and characteristic culture develop in Mexico. This was a frontier society, but a rich one, with all the resources of imperial Spain and the Roman church to develop and support the natural wealth of the land. Public and private buildings were ornamented with rich sculpture and embellished with colorful paintings depicting religious scenes and views of daily life. In this period the preponderantly Indian population was converted to the Christian faith and introduced to the civilization of post-Renaissance Europe. Artists came to Mexico from the Old World and brought with them the current… Read More

[vi]+450+[1 blank]+[19 index] pages. Duodecimo (6" x 4 1/4") bound in period vellum with hand written title to spine. Dedicated to Beato Luis Gonzaga. Original manuscript.The work is attributed to Francisco de Avila. He was curate or vicar in the province of Huarochiri of Peru, later curate at Huánaco, finally Canon of the Church of La Plata (now Sucre), in Bolivia. Born in Peru as a foundling (quorum parentes ignorantur he says himself); date of demise unknown. He was one of the most active investigators of Indian rites and customs of his time. In 1608 he wrote a treatise of the "Errors, False Gods, and Other Superstitions of the Indians of the Provinces of Huarochiri, Mama, and Chaclla", of which unfortunately only the first six chapters are known to exist and have been translated into English. It is, even in its incomplete form, an invaluable contribution to the knowledge of the Peruvian Indians and their primitive lore. In 1611 Avila wrote an equally important report on the Indians of Huánaco in… Read More