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Indigenous burial rites prohibited
Isidoro Sainz de Alfaro y Beaumont; Pedro Ocón.
Circular, que dirige el Senor Gobernador de la Sagrada Mitra á los Parrocos, Eclesiasticos y Fieles Cristianos del Arzobispado de Mexico, sobre Ereccion de Cementerios fuera de las Poblaciones.
México City, Oficina de Doña María Fernández de Jaúregui, 1809.
8°. [2], 36 pp.
Contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
First and only edition of an explanation of the rules and regulations for burying the dead in the Archdiocese of Mexico. The rules for the Christian way of burial were not well observed by the local population. The rules of Christian burial were not well observed by the local population and this prompted the Archbishop of Mexico to commission his cousin the Inquisitor to write the current work. Author Isidoro Sainz de Alfaro y Beaumont was Inquisidor and the cousin of Archbishop And Viceroy Francisco Javier de Lizana y Beaumont. To make his point, he cites examples from the Old Testament that emphasize the… Read More

Legal documents regarding the suspension of one of the Liberators from court


Anonymous [Jose Felix de Restrepo (1760-1832)].

Coleccion de documentos que publica la Alta Corte de Justicia Nacional en Manifestacion de su conducta oponiéndose a que la Cámara de Representantes diese asiento en su seno al Dr. José Joaquín Ortiz, suspendido de su empleo de ministro de la Corte Superior de Cundinamarca.

Bogotá, Impreso por F. M. Stokes, Plazuela de San Francisco 1826.



8°. 28 pp.



Collection of documents concerning the suspension of Dr. José Joaquin Ortiz, representative of the Popayan province at the Superior Court of Cundinamarca. The president of the High Court was Dr. Jose Felix de Restrepo. The origin of this matter was a sentence in a lawsuit between the Augustinian convent and Sebastian Lopez. To For the matter of transparency regarding this controversial issue that was settled by a tight vote, the High Court has decided to publish all documents that were used in the case. José… Read More

Founding document and constitution of the Republic of Colombia
Simón Bolívar (1783-1830).
Constitucion de la Republica de Colombia.
Rosario de Cucuta [but Bogotá], Bruno Espinosa, Impresor de Gob. Gral., 1821.- 11°.
4°. 66 pp. (lacks V pp. preliminaries). Collates: π, B-I4, [K1].
Later half calf with decorated paper sides.
First edition of the first constitution of Gran Colombia, known as the Constitution of Cúcuta. A monument of post-colonial liberty and arguably the most important book ever printed in Latin America. Gran Colombia consisted of current Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, northern Peru, western Guyana and northwest Brazil. This is one of the very few copies that were printed of the first edition. A decree in this volume prints the order to reprint the constitution at Bogota in two or three thousand copies and to print one thousand copies of a Caracas edition. Rio and Philadelphia would also print editions in 1822.The publication of this document meant the realization of Simón… Read More

Extremely rare, significant and pretty Yucatan imprint
Francisco de Paula Toro (1799-1840).
Contestaciones Habidas entre los Señores General D. Francisco Toro, actual Gobernador de este Estado y el Ciudadano Juan de Dios Cosgaya su Antecesor.
Mérida de Yucatán, Imprenta del Gobierno, de la Propiedad de L. Segú, 1834.
8°. [2], 21, [1 blank] pp. Wit a woodcut illustrated title and two woodcut text illustrations.
Modern blue calf with gold-tooled title on front cover, new endpapers.
Unrecorded first and only edition of a politically sensitive work by the current Governor of the State of Yucatan, General Francisco de Paula Toro. He publishes here his correspondence from April 22 to May 31 1834 with the previous Governor, "citizen" Juan de Dios Cosgaya, who was removed from his post and imprisoned in the same year as this publication. Toro took over from Cosgaya with the backing of the new President Antonio López de Santa Anna, who was also his brother-in-law. In a 2-page instruction Toro addresses… Read More

***The second book ever printed in Catania, Sicily***


Giuseppe Cumia (1531-1593).

De successione feudalium repetitio seu commentarij, nunc primum in lucem aediti.

Catania, apud eundem authorem, 1563 (colophon: Catinae, impressorum defectu idem author impressit,1563).



Folio in 6s. [4], 452 pp. Collation: [π]⁶A-2O⁶ = complete (matches copy Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma).

Contemporary limp vellum with ink title on spine.



First edition of an important legal work by Sicilian jurist Giuseppe Cumia, printed by himself at his legendary press. A recent study recorded only 17 copies of the 4 editions that were published from Cumia's press (see Aiello 2020).
There was no printing press in Catania, there never had been until Cumia set one up in his house. He spent almost all of his life in Catania, first as a law student, then as a teacher and scholar of law. In 1562 he travelled to Messina to have a collection of his poetry published at the Spira printing house, but when the owner died… Read More

Collection of unrecorded juridical dissertations that mark the return of law at Mainz University
Franz Christoph Anton Pfister [candidate]; Johann Gottfried Schweickardt (before 1713 - after 1738) [chair].

1) Disputatio prima privati juris collegii continens paratitla libri primi Institutionum Imperialium, quam in alma electorali Universitate Moguntina sub praesidio nobilis clarissimi & consultissimi domini D. Joannis Godefridi Schweickardt, juris utriusque licentiati, ejusdemque in praefatâ Universitate Professoris extraordinarii, nec non supremae theologicae laureae candidati, excercitii gratiâ publicè propugnabit Franciscus Christophorus Antonius Pfister Bambergensis jurium auditor. In Collegio Schenckenbergico sub horam octavam mane, die Junii, Anno 1723.
Mainz, Johan Georg Haffner, [1723]. 4°. [4], 68, [2] pp. With woodcut head- and tailpieces.

[WITH:]

Friedrich Wilhelm Rüding [candidate]; Johann Gottfried Schweickardt (before 1713 - after 1738) [chair].
2) Disputatio secunda [...]… Read More

Royal colonial decree to improve the vital gunpowder production in New Spain
José de Gálvez y Gallardo (1720-1787); Marques Carlos Francisco de Croix (1699-1786).
Ordenanzas de la Real renta de la polvora para este Reyno de Nueva España, y Provincias de su comprension, que se administra de cuenta de su Magestad.
Reimpresas en Mexico, en la Imprenta Nueva Madrileña de Don Felipe de Zuñiga y Ontiveros, 1777.
Folio. [II], 40 pp. With an attractive etched Royal Spanish coat of arms on the title, signed "Naxera Ft." and a woodblock capital letter.
Modern stiff marbled paper covers, in linen made-to-measure case with title on front.
First edition of the second Royal decree on the production of gunpowder in Nueva España. The decree provides instruction and ordinance for the Real Fabrica de Pólvora and contains LVII articles. Among them, one is dedicated to "Indios para los trabajos de la Fábrica", in which forced labour is decreed upon the inhabitants of the factory's surrounding villages. Refusal of… Read More

A judicial turning point in the West IndiesJean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville (1776-1857).
Ordonnance du Roi portant établissement de l'enregistrement à la Martinique, à la Guadeloupe et dans ses dépendances, et à la Guyane française.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1829.

4°. 122 pp. With the woodcut coat of arms of France on title-page.
Contemporary coloured marbled calf with gold-tooled borders, smooth gold-tooled spine with title label in red morocco, gilt edges.
First and only edition of an ordonnance of significant governmental administration reform in the colonial French Antilles and Guyana. This copy beautifully bound and from the library of Proser de Barante (1782-1866). The rare ordinance declares that the registration of anything official will have to be centrally administered and paid for, meaning a farewell to the colonial ways of administration that was largely conducted by plantations. It was modelled after the successful administrative reform in the French East Indies in 1804.… Read More

Very rare broadside announcing new taxes, this copy used in Cali


Francisco de Paula Santander (1792-1840).

Republica de Colombia. Francisco de Paula Santander etc. etc. S.E. el Libertador Presidente en ejercicio de las facultades estraordinarias con que está revestido por el decreto de 23 de noviembre último […].

Bogotá, [no name], diciembre 12 de 1826.

Folio. [3], [1 blank] pp.

With inscriptions in ink by the municipal political chief of the Cali district on the title and the back, with his autograph, dated January 17, 1827.



Broadside decree declaring the introduction of a new taxation fee. The Vice-President declares that the president has used the extraordinary powers with which he is vested by the decree of last November 23th, to order that a capitation of three pesos be required of all free men, without class exception, condition or status, and to mothers of families, from the age of 14 years onwards. The following 25 articles describe the method of collecting the tax, which was… Read More