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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1571.) Alonso de Molina. Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana * Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana. 4 of 6 engravings. 2 volumes in one. [4], 152 [of 162]; 95, 105-121, [1] leaves. Small folio, later (18th century?) calf, moderate wear; marbled front free endpaper coming detached, later manuscript biographical notes on the author filling the front flyleaf, moderate dampstaining to preliminaries and elsewhere, lacking last 10 leaves of first section, and leaves 96-104 of second section, occasional early manuscript notes; edges tinted red; early owners' inscriptions crossed out on first title page, small inked stamp of later collector Elias Sanchez Solis on front free endpaper. The two sections of dictionary text are transposed, with the partial "mexicana y castellana" section appearing first, although the titles and preliminaries are in the correct places. Mexico: Antonio de Espinosa, 1571
Second and expanded edition of the first dictionary printed in the Americas. It includes a Spanish-to-Nahuatl dictionary (originally published in 1555, here lacking its final 10 leaves), and a Nahuatl-to-Spanish dictionary (here making its first appearance), lacking 9 internal leaves.
The illustrations include a nearly full-page armorial on the first title page, a nearly full-page engraving of Saint Francis on the second title page, an engraving of a kneeling man at the end of Volume II, and a smaller tailpiece on its verso, in addition to the decorative initials which begin each section of the dictionary. Church 116; García Icazbalceta 60; Medina, Mexico 65; Palau 174352; Pilling 2601-2; Sabin 49867.
