[Guide to the microfilm collection] Latin American history and culture
Subtitle: Series 4 : The Mexican rare monograph collection, 1548-1861
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Woodbridge, CT
Language: spa; eng
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; History; Civilization; Microforms; Handbooks, manuals; Economic conditions; Politics and government; Catholic Church
Other titles: Latin American history and culture :; Mexican rare monograph collection, 1548-1861 :
Notes: Guide divided into seven volumes, one for each of the seven parts of the microfilm collection. The guide includes both an Author-Title index and a reel index. Each volume also includes an introduction explaining the origin and scope of the Sutro Library and the Mexican collection, information about research utilizing the collection and a bibliography of published guides to the Sutro Library Mexican Collection.

Introduction to the guide by W. Michael Mathes, Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca, Honorary Curator, Mexican Collection, Sutro Library.

"This collection comprises over 3,000 pre-1900 imprints covering a vast range of topics. In the field of economics, there are works on commerce, finance, and taxation policy, publications on government that cover national and state policy and politics, and legal materials that address criminal justice, public welfare, inheritance, and litigation. There is also a large number of titles on Mexican Indian cultures and their religious and social mores and a good representation of early Mexican materials in the fields of language and literature."

Also available as electronic reproduction. Chicago : Center for Research Libraries, [2010]

Author-Title and reel indices in Spanish. Introduction in English.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. General Periodicals and Almanacs; title: pt. 2. Philosophy and Theology; title: pt. 3. Theology and the Catholic Church: Liturgy and Ritual; title: pt. 4 Theology and the Church: Various Subjects; title: pt. 5 History and Social Sciences; title: pt. 6 Political Science and the Law; title: pt. 7 Education, Arts and Sciences.