Teatro mexicano : descripcion breve de los sucessos exemplares, historicos, politicos, militares, y religiosos del nuevo mundo occidental de las Indias ...
Teatro mexicano is a 1697 Mexico City book by Augustín de Vetancurt, a Franciscan friar, printed by the widow of Juan de Ribera and written as a historical and religious account of New Spain for Spanish-reading readers. Its pictures are a repeated printed ornament, a symmetrical scrolled cartouche with a central vase and flowers, plus a family coat of arms with motto on a pale endpaper; a designer might take its dense, mirrored scrollwork as a model for decorative borders and corner pieces.
