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Exploration and Travel Literature
Lot 17

DE LA CRUZ, JUANA INÉZ. 1651-1695.
Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de México. Madrid: Manuel Ruiz de Murga, 1700.

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DE LA CRUZ, JUANA INÉZ. 1651-1695.

Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de México. Madrid: Manuel Ruiz de Murga, 1700.
4to (205 x 143 mm). Title-page in red and black. Contemporary vellum, inked titles on spine, traces of ties at edges. Covers soiled and stained, text block slightly loose, ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, some staining and light browning.

RARE FIRST EDITION of this posthumous third volume of the author's works. Sor Juana Inéz De la Cruz was a Mexican nun who wrote poetry and philosophy, and who gathered a personal collection of over 4,000 books. The illegitimate daughter of a Spanish officer, she was raised among the books of her grandfather's library, and entered a Hieronymite convent at the age of 18. Her ideas about the role of women in the Church led to a rebuke, but her reputation as the "Phoenix of Mexico" survived even past her untimely death in 1695, the victim of a wave of bubonic plague that swept through her convent. European Americana 700/149; Medina BHA III:2013; Palau 65226; Sabin 36814.

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