Author: SAN ALBERTO, José Antonio de.
Title: Coleccion de instrucciones pastorales, que en diferentes ocasiones, y con varios motivos publicó para edificacion de los fieles, arreglo y direccion de sus diocesis el ilustrísimo y reverendísimo se–or D. Fr. Joseph Antonio de S. Alberto, obispo antes de Córdoba del Tucuman, y al presente arzobispo de la ciudad de La Plata en América . . .
Description: Madrid: en la Imprenta Real, 1786. 4to. 2 vols. Vol. 1: 367 p. (2 marginal worm-holes from page 300 onwards). Vol. 2; [5], 370-830 p. (marginal worm-holes in first two quires). Without the engraved portrait of the author in vol. 1. Contemporary red morocco with slight wear at corners and spines. Covers decorated with floral gilt-roll borders; arms of Carlos IV of Spain in gilt on front and rear covers (traces of worming on rear cover of vol. 1 and patches of discolouration on covers of vol. 2); gold-tooled spines; green leather spine labels (with slight wear); marbled end-papers; all edges gilt. ***** Includes material on the contemporary (1780-82) Tupac Amaru uprising in Peru (vol. 1, pp. 225-41). References: Palau 289474; Medina, BHA 5208; Sabin 75979.

Keywords: Americana, Spanish, South America, antiquarian


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