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Relación de los Obispados de Tlaxcala, Michoacán, Oaxaca y Otros Lugares en el Siglo XVI
by García Pimentel y Elguero, Luis (1855-1930) from the manuscript collection of Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
109 pages. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") rebound in attractive half leather with gilt stamping to spine and marbled boards. Manuscript material from the collection of Joaquin Garcia Icazbalecta. 1st edition.
Luis Garcia Pimentel took over his father collection upon his death. How many volumes of manuscripts his library contained cannot be said with any degree of certainty. All we know is that at the end of his life his library was one of the finest and richest of private collection in Mexico. A typewritten list prepared in 1937 by his grandson, Juoaquin, shows that the collection contained at least eighty-seven volumes of manuscripts, only sixty-nine of which were listed by Federico Gomez de Orozco in his catalog in 1927. His son Garcia Pimentel picked up where his father left off, and continued publishing material from the collection. He began anther series of volumes Documentos Historicos de Mejico of which this is volume II in the series on the relationships between the bishoprics of Tlaxcala, Michoacan, Oaxaca and other locations from the original manuscripts.
Condition:
Rebound with original wrappers bound in. Original wrappers repaired with new backing laid on else a very good to fine copy of a scarce item.
Luis Garcia Pimentel took over his father collection upon his death. How many volumes of manuscripts his library contained cannot be said with any degree of certainty. All we know is that at the end of his life his library was one of the finest and richest of private collection in Mexico. A typewritten list prepared in 1937 by his grandson, Juoaquin, shows that the collection contained at least eighty-seven volumes of manuscripts, only sixty-nine of which were listed by Federico Gomez de Orozco in his catalog in 1927. His son Garcia Pimentel picked up where his father left off, and continued publishing material from the collection. He began anther series of volumes Documentos Historicos de Mejico of which this is volume II in the series on the relationships between the bishoprics of Tlaxcala, Michoacan, Oaxaca and other locations from the original manuscripts.
Condition:
Rebound with original wrappers bound in. Original wrappers repaired with new backing laid on else a very good to fine copy of a scarce item.
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- Title
- Relación de los Obispados de Tlaxcala, Michoacán, Oaxaca y Otros Lugares en el Siglo XVI
- Author
- García Pimentel y Elguero, Luis (1855-1930) from the manuscript collection of Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Luis Garcia Pimentel
- Place of Publication
- Mexico City
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mexico
- Bookseller catalogs
- Colonial America;
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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