Quarter cloth over paper covered boards, gilt titles. Original front wrapper bound in
1899 · México
by Andrade, Vicente de P.
México: Imprenta del Museo Nacional, 1899. Tercera edicion. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards, gilt titles. Original front wrapper bound in. A very good copy, minor wear to extremities, front endpapers split at hinge, scattered foxing, owner's name on title.. iv, 342 pp. Sm. 4to. Thirty-nine biographies originally published in various periodicals. Andrade's short "Breve noticia de 21 franciscanos y un clérigo martirizador en la Nueva España, en el siglo XVI" (4 pp.) is bound in the rear. Provenance: signed "Dn. Primo Feliciano Velasquez." (1860-1953), a Mexican journalist, attorney, and historian). We could locate no other editions but this, the third. Quite uncommon; no auction records and OCLC locates only ten copies: UC Berkeley, LOC, Mus. NM Lib., Univ. Texas at Austin, Yale, BL (2), ITE Mexico, BN Mexico, and Staats Bibliothek, Hamburg. Palau 12057. Jones/Medina: 772.
(Inventory #: 44531)