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[22],216,[2]pp. plus engraved portrait. Small quarto. 19th-century calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Minor wear to extremities. Titlepage chipped, costing just a handful of letters in the imprint, and mounted. Minor tears and chipping to a couple preliminary leaves with minor loss of text, light foxing, short contemporary ink notation on two leaves, two preliminary leaves bound slightly out of order. Good. The first published work by Isidro Félix de Espinosa, the great Franciscan chronicler of the middle third of the 18th century. He was born in Queretaro, Mexico in 1679, was educated there, and on March 19, 1697 he began his career as a Franciscan; he took holy orders on Dec. 17, 1703. Between 1709 and 1721 he participated in several expeditions to Texas: those of Capt. Pedro de Aguirre, Domingo Ramón, Martín de Alarcón, and the Marques of San Miguel de Aguayo. While Espinosa is most famous for his writings on Texas and his fellow Texas missionary, Antonio Margil de Jesus, this biography is of Fray Antonio de los Angeles Bustamante, the beloved porter of the Franciscan monastery in Queretaro. Fray Antonio was a lay cleric, a Spanish immigrant who arrived in Mexico as a boy and as an adult had a successful career in business, which he abandoned to enter the monastic life. A full biography of such an "ordinary Joe" in the 18th century is most unusual. The volume offers an excellent copper- engraved portrait by Joaquín Sotomayor of Fray Antonio with the keys of his office and the symbols representing his responsibility of giving bread and water to those begging at the monastery door. The book is from the press of master printer Hogal, considered to be the Ibarra (or Baskerville) of Mexico. MEDINA, MEXICO 3173. AYALA ECHAVARRI 423. PALAU 82700. SABIN 22895. Seller Inventory # WRCAM51574A
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Title: EL CHERUBIN CUSTODIO DE EL ARBOL DE LA VIDA,...
Publisher: Por Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, Mexico
Publication Date: 1731
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