MEXICAN PRINTING – Nos los Inquisidores Apostólicos contra la Heretica Pravedad ... A Short Abridgment fo [sic] Christian Doctrine [caption titles]. [Mexico City: February 1787.]

MEXICAN PRINTING – Nos los Inquisidores Apostólicos contra la Heretica Pravedad ... A Short Abridgment fo [sic] Christian Doctrine [caption titles]. [Mexico City: February 1787.]

The first edition of the only book printed in English in the whole of Spanish America during 300 years of colonial rule (Medina). A large number of English-speaking immigrants entered Mexico following the American Revolutionary War and this catechism was printed in part to help this population comply with the country's mandatory Catholicism. ESTC W41449; Medina Mexico 7705.

Small octavo (147 x 100mm). Pages 1-2 in Spanish, pages 3-41 in English (tiny wormhole catching a few letters). Modern vellum; cloth folding case. Provenance: Christie's New York, 14 June 2006, lot 502.

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