[CODEX OSUNA] Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México. Codice en geroglificos mexicanos y en lenguas castellana y azteca, existente en la biblioteca del Excmo Señor Duque de Osuna. publicase por vez primera con la autorisacion competente

First edition in book form of this Mexican manuscript, printed in only 100 numbered copies.

Illustrated with 40 pages of color facsimiles.

Minor tears with losses to spine and covers, but internally clean and well-preserved.

Named after its inclusion—until 1882—in the magnificent collection of Mariano Téllez-Girón y Beaufort-Spontin (1814–1882), twelfth Duke of Osuna, this codex is only a fragment of a much more extensive text (the first surviving leaf bears the number 464), consisting of a 1565 legal memorandum by the Nahuatl Indians against the administration of Luis de Velasco.

It was acquired by the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid following the Duke’s death.