Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 338

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1607.) [Juan de Mijangos.] [Espeio divino en lengua mexicana.] 5 full-page woodcuts and other illustrations. [14 of 16], 562, [6] pages. 4to, later 1/2 calf, moderate wear; lacking title page, moderate dampstaining and worming, a few side-notes cropped, a few early manuscript notes in margins. [Mexico: Diego Lopez Davalos, 1607]

Additional Details

"A large work of moral and theological philosophy written entirely in Nahuatl. The work is designed for use by both the educated Indians and the clergy working among the natives"--Szewcyzk, 39 Books and Broadsides Printed in America Before the Bay Psalm Book, 20. Features one of the first American images of Saint Augustine. Medina, Mexico 238; Palau 168872 ("estimado en comercio"); Pilling 2581; Sabin 48908 ("Extremely rare, not mentioned by Brunet, Rich, Brochaus, or Stevens").