Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 331

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MEXICAN EARLY IMPRINTS.) Luzuriaga, Juan de. Paranympho Celeste, Historia de la Mystica Zarza. 4to, later 1/4 calf, minor wear; short repaired tear on title page, minor soiling and worming, lacks frontispiece and leaf b1, final three leaves badly torn; bookplates of Luis Monnt and John Carter Brown Library (with release stamp) on front pastedown. (JCB) Mexico, 1686

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first edition. Fr. Luzuriaga, a Basque Franciscan in Mexico, wrote this popular religious work on the old-world Virgin of Aranzazu to demonstrate that "the Virgin had shown special favor to the Basques." See Pescador, The New World Inside a Basque Village, 113-16. Medina, Mexico II:1376; Palau 144367.