Search Results: Titles starting with V from Liber Antiquus

Mexico: por la Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1745. THIRD EDITION (1st ed. Madrid 1689; 2nd Mexico 1690.). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 18th c. vellum, possibly re-cased at an early date. A fine copy with light wear to corners and a few margins, and a few trivial blemishes. With a woodcut title border and decorative borders to the text leaves throughout; a few of the borders very lightly shaved. Type-set acrostic poem on penultimate leaf. With a 19th c. private ownership stamp (dated 1881) Pedro Escobar y Cano, possibly the Durango jurist of that name. A marvelous and highly unusual first person verse travelogue by a Mexican Franciscan priest, who relates his journey from Zacatecas to Rome in the year 1687. De Castro was commissioned to represent the province of Zacatecas in the General Chapter of the Franciscan Order that was to take place on June 5, 1688 in Rome. De Castro recounts his journey overland through Mexico, by ship through the Caribbean, across the Atlantic to Spain, overland… Read More