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(BOGOTA--1787.) [Stanihurst, William.] Historia de Christo paciente. 230, [8]; 264, [7] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; the first volume a bit taller, leaves I:A4-5 lacking with facsimiles laid in, a few other leaves coming loose, lacking blank leaf after page I:230, minor wear and foxing, minor dampstaining on a few leaves. Bogotá: Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, 1787
This has been described as the first book printed in what is now Colombia, and was certainly the largest work published to this date. Translated by José Luis de Asula y Lozano from Stanihurst's 1660 book "Dei immortalis in corpore mortali patientis historia." Medina, Bogotá 15; Woodbridge, Printing in Colonial Spanish America, page 93-4; Palau 115107.
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