Carta pastoral que el Illmo. Sr. Dr. D. Pelagio A. de Labastida y Davalos dirige el venerable clero y fieles del Arzobispado de Mexico con motivo su promocion á aquella Archidiócesis.

Puebla, Tipografia de Pedro Alarcon y Ca., 1863.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound, lower board still attached, upper board and spine present. Final line on a few pages shaved, but still legible. Good condition. From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, with initials "MHC" on the pastedown of the upper board. 28 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872) was an English antiquary and book collector who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century, due to his severe condition of bibliomania. He was an illegitimate son of a textile manufacturer and inherited a substantial estate, which he spent almost entirely on vellum manuscripts, and, when out of funds, borrowed heavily to buy manuscripts, thereby putting his family deep into debt. Phillipps began his collecting while still at Rugby and continued at Oxford. Eventually he acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts, arguably the largest collection a single individual has created, and coined the term "vello-maniac" to describe his obsession. A.N.L. Munby notes that he spent perhaps between two hundred thousand and a quarter of a million pounds, altogether four or five thousand pounds a year, while accessions came in at the rate of forty or fifty a week. He was an assiduous cataloguer who established the Middle Hill Press (named after his country seat at Broadway, Worcestershire) in 1822 not only to record his book holdings but also to publish his findings in English topography and genealogy. Ultimately, the dispersal of his collection took over 100 years. A five-volume history of the collection and its dispersal, Phillipps Studies, by A. N. L. Munby was published between 1951 and 1960.*** Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc.