INQUISITION CENSORSHIP OF BOOKS IN MEXICO. Nos los inquisidores apostolicos, contra la heretica pravedad, y apostasia, en la ciudad de Mexico. Mexico: 1806. Printed broadside, 600 x 430 mm, signed in type with manuscript paraph of officers of the inquisition, printed in two columns divided by printer's device, seal of the Inquisition lower left, folds, light stain. Rare inquisition decree prohibiting books, containing a list of 40 books and tracts "Prohibidos Aun Para Los Que Tienen Licencia" and another 6 "Prohibidos in Totum," with descriptions and explanations. Interestingly, includes at number 30: Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu, 2 tomos en 12°., que se dicen impresos en Filadelfia en 1794, sin nombre de autor." A fine example.
INQUISITION CENSORSHIP OF BOOKS IN MEXICO. Nos los inquisidores apostolicos, contra la heretica pravedad, y apostasia, en la ciudad de Mexico. Mexico: 1806. Printed broadside, 600 x 430 mm, signed in type with manuscript paraph of officers of the inquisition, printed in two columns divided by printer's device, seal of the Inquisition lower left, folds, light stain. Rare inquisition decree prohibiting books, containing a list of 40 books and tracts "Prohibidos Aun Para Los Que Tienen Licencia" and another 6 "Prohibidos in Totum," with descriptions and explanations. Interestingly, includes at number 30: Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu, 2 tomos en 12°., que se dicen impresos en Filadelfia en 1794, sin nombre de autor." A fine example.
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