[Mexico]. [Independence]

Plan del Señor Coronel D. Agustin Iturbide... [caption title]

Mexico: En la Oficina de D.J.M. Benavente y Socios, 1821. 2pp. Small broadsheet. Previously folded, clear tape repairs on verso along old separations. Light toning and wear. Good plus. Item #5556

A very early printing of the Plan of Iguala, which proposed Mexican independence in the form of a constitutional monarchy with the Catholic Church as official religion and guaranteed equal sociopolitical rights. Negotiated between Agustín de Iturbide of the Spanish army and revolutionary leader Vicente Guerrero on 24 February 1821, it soon brought the fighting to a close. With most of the loyalist army joining with the revolutionaries, the Viceroy of Mexico was forced by August 1821 to sign the Treaty of Cordoba and recognize Mexican independence. The first printing of the plan was as a newspaper extra in Puebla, and this second broadsheet printing in Mexico City followed soon after. Four copies of this edition traced in OCLC, at Berkeley, Yale, Indiana, and the BNE.

Price: $4,500.00