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17752247Mineral del Monte 1775. Still very good. 8pp. Small folio. Stitched. Minor wear at edges. Light toning. Minor darkening and patchy staining at upper corner and along top edge. Fascinating documents of a murder in a colonial Mexican mining town during the late 18th century. Nicolas Gregorio Picazo was killed in the town of Mineral del Monte also known as Real del Monte in early March 1775 and a group of three men Phelipe de Avila Miguel de Avila and Manuel Gonzalez were charged with the murder. Real del Monte northeast of Pachuca in Hidalgo is located in the region where the Spanish one of their earliest discoveries of gold and silver following the conquest of the Aztecs in the early 1520s. Real del Monte is particularly rich in silver and is estimated to produced over one billion ounces of the precious metal from its mines over the course of the last five hundred years. The present documents include affidavits and witness statements including one from the widow of the murdered man as well as several procedural decisions from the judges in the case. An interesting record of colonial Mexican homicide proceedings in one its most significant industrial and commercial areas beyond Mexico City. unknown
1786696801786. Liege: Lemarie 1786. 4 engraved plates. 1st ed. Liege: Lemarie 1786. 4 engraved plates. 1st ed. Illustrated Account of a Belgian Priest With a Gambling Addiction Who Committed Several Murders Murder. Pierlot Jacques 1750-1786. La Vie de Jacques Pierlot Pretre & Marguillier de la Paroisse de Vervier Ville de la Principaute de Liege; Avec tous les Details de son Crime De sa Degradation & De son Supplice. Liege: Chez Lemarie 1786. 52 i.e. 50 pp. Etched portrait frontispiece. Four etched plates. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4". Nineteenth-century quarter sheep over marbled boards gilt fillets and title to spine marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners recent owner bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text faint dampstaining to head of frontispiece and title page clean tear to lower inner corner of title repaired on verso bottom line of caption cropped on second plate final two leaves cropped and re-hinged. Laid in is a copy of the 17 March 1786 Avertissemens de Liege a handbill of local publisher advertisements including one for this publication. $1850. Only edition. A sensationalistic chapbook about a Belgian priest with a gambling addiction who murdered a creditor and members of the latter's household. He was sentenced by an ecclesiastical tribunal to degradation permanent removal from clerical office which was carried out in a public ceremony then sentenced by a municipal tribunal to be tortured and strangled. The plates depict his degradation and punishment. Chapbooks such as this one were an expression of the anti-clericalism that was a vital part of Enlightenment Francophone culture in the years preceding the French Revolution. OCLC locates 12 copies 1 in North America Library of Congress. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
