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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1559.) Maturino Gilberti. Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan / Aqui comienca el vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y Mechuacana. 87, 180, [1] leaves. 4to, later morocco, minor wear; 7 leaves in facsimile (both title pages, and final 5 leaves), moderate conservation to early leaves, early underlining and notes, minor dampstaining and worming; early owner's inscriptions on leaf I:87. Mexico: Juan Pablos, 1559
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A dictionary of the Purépecha or Tarascan language spoken in the highlands of Michoacán. Printed by Juan Pablos, the first printer in the New World. Leaves 80 to 87 in the first part contain an analysis of word roots. The annotations include some additional translations from Spanish into the Michoacán tongue. Icazbalceta, Apuntes 115; Medina, Mexico 37; Palau 102198; Pilling 1545.

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