[Rarebooks] FS: Villamel's 1877 history of Monte de Piedad, the Mexican charitable bank

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MEXICO) Villamel, Antonio. MEMORIA HISTORICA DEL NACIONAL MONTE DE PIEDAD. Que por Orden del C. Director Mariano Riva Palacio... Mexico: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante. 1877. Lg. 4to. (4),214,(88)pp. Frontispiece portrait of Pedro Romero de Terreros, founder of Monte de Piedad. Large folding table in the appendix. Publisher's deluxe paneled black morocco with central gilt floral design on both covers. A.e.g. Minor rubbing at corners. Calligraphic manuscript presentation leaf preceding the half title, from the director of the bank, M. Riva Palacio, to "Guadalupe Bros." signed by Palacio. Moire silk endpapers with engraved bookplate on front pastedown.                 $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
Monte de Piedad was a charitable bank founded in the 1770s for the purpose of loaning money to the poor of Mexico, oftentimes acting as a pawnbroker.

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