Por el Sargento Mayor D. Juan Isidro de Pardiñas Villar de Francos, Cavallero del Orden de Santiago...de la Mina Nombrada San Antonio, Alias Santiago, Sita en el Real, y Minas de Coziguiriachi en el Reyno de la Nueva Vizcaya...
[Mexico: ca. 1698]. [2],39pp. Folio. Sewn, but disbound. Top edge trimmed close, occasionally costing page numbers and parts of type ornaments, scattered foxing, fore-edge a bit worn. Good plus. Item #3821
A very rare Mexican imprint documenting a mining dispute in Coziguiriachi (Cusihuiriachi), Chihuahua, Northern Mexico in the 1690s. Sergeant Major Pardiñas and four co-owners allege that Sergeant Major Diego Pacheco, who acquired the San Pedro Mine in 1694, adjacent to the San Antonio Mine that they own, invaded their mine. They allege that by purchasing the San Pedro Mine they also acquired the San Antonio. As such, they argue that Sergeant Pacheco has been stealing revenues from the mine for four years, and request that first, they kick Pacheco out of the mine and restore possession to them; second, that Pacheco return to them all the silver that he has obtained from said mine. They proceed to show all the documents of possession, as well as the documents of the sale of the San Pedro mine. Particularly notable is the author's elegant ink signature at the conclusion of the text, reading "Joseph Saenz de Escobar." We locate just two copies, at the Bancroft Library and the Institut Tecnologico in Mexico.
Price: $4,500.00