Explicacion de los Pesos y Medidas [Bound with Three Related Titles]. This item is unavailable.Explicacion de los Pesos y Medidas [Bound with Three Related Titles]

Rare Titles Relating to the Adoption of Decimal Coinage in Mexico [Mexico]. [Currency]. [Weights and Measures]. Ministerio de Fomento. Explicacion de los Pesos y Medidas por el Sistema Metrico Decimal. Guadalajara: Tipografia del Gobierno, A Cargo de Ignacio Gutierrez Cortes, 1857. 53 pp. Quarto (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). [Bound with] Sistema Metrico-Decimal: Tablas que Establecen la Relacion que Existe Entre los Valores de las Antiguas Medidas Mejicanas y las del Nuevo Sistema Legal, Formadas en el Ministerio de Fomento, Conforme a la ley de 15 de Marzo de 1857. Guadalajara: Tip. del Gob., A Cargo de Ignacio Gutierrez Cortes, 1857. xx, 40, [1] pp. Quarto (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). [And] Banda, Longinos. Explicacion del Nuevo Sistema Decimal de Pesos y Medidas, Para el Uso de los Alumnos de las Escuelas Primarias, Por Longinos Banda. Guadalajara: Tip. Economica de Vidaurri, 1865. 14 pp. 12mo. (6" x 3-1/2"). [And] Sierra, Esteban. Coleccion de Tablas para Facilitar los Calculos Aritmetico-Comerciales. Guadalajara: Tip. Economica de Luis P. Vidaurri, 1865. 43 ff. Folding table. Quarto (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). Pamphlets bound into green quarter reversed calf over paper-covered boards. Typewritten title label and owner label, "McClaren," to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, some soiling to boards, corners bumped. Light browning, early notes in pencil to a few leaves, early owner stamp to front free endpaper. Ex-library. Location label to spine, stamps to title pages, annotations to their versos. Attractive copies of four rare titles. $500. * Only editions. Mexico devised a system of decimal coinage in 1857 and began to introduce decimal-denominated currency during the 1860s. This was a gradual process that was not completed until 1897. The four pamphlets in this volume relate to legal, commercial and practical aspects of that transition. This book probably belonged to William Augustus McLaren [1870-1944], who was for several years a high-profile lawyer in Mexico. He was also the law partner of Rafael Hernandez, the uncle of the revolutionary Francisco Madero [1873-1913], who was the president of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. OCLC locates 1 copy of the first work (University of New Mexico) and no copies of the others. …