Three quarter red morocco over blue cloth boards
1831 · Mexico
by Gil y Garcés, Martín
Mexico: Impr. del ciudadano A. Valdés, 1831. First edition. Three quarter red morocco over blue cloth boards. About fine, minor rubbing on board and a few old erasures.. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. A conservative catholic who long opposed Iturbide and had been a staunch supporter of the Spanish crown, Martín Gil y Garces, Dean of Church in Michoacan, was denied his Council seat under the pretext of his travel abroad to Europe without permission during the political upheavals of 1830-1831. He argues for the actions to be overturned in a brief with 26 sections. The Church responded to his accusations with its own work published a month later: "El cabildo sede-vacante de Michoacan, ara manifestar que no fue arbitraria la declaración que hizo contra el dr. d. Martin Gil y Garces, privandole de la dignidad de dean de aquella santa iglesia, presenta al público con mas estension, los hechos é irrefragables constancias que justifican sus procedimientos y descubren la escandalosa mala fé con que el mismo dr. Gil se ha producido en su Manifiesto, intentando sorprender á los subios é imparciales, y alucinar á los ignorantes." At least two more pamphlets on the subject were published that year. Scarce. Not in Sutro. OCLC locates only five copies: Berkeley, Columbia Univ., Fuller Theolical Sem., BN Mexico, and BN Spain.
(Inventory #: 42113)