Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 307

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1614.) Martín de León. Primera parte del sermonario del tiempo de todo el año, duplicado, en lengua Mexicana. Woodcut illustrations on title page and elsewhere. [5 of 8], 330, [1] leaves. 4to, contemporary vellum, moderate wear, detached from text block; lacking endpapers, title page defective and crudely restored, early inscriptions on title page and elsewhere, lacking 3 preliminary leaves and leaf 35, 110, 111, dampstaining and worming, a few early repairs, increasing wear to last 70 leaves, final tabla/errata leaf defective; unidentified marca de fuego on top edge. Mexico: viuda de Diego Lopez Davalos, 1614

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Sermons intended to be delivered in Nahuatl throughout the year, by the author of the better-known Camino del Cielo (above). This was intended to be the first of 4 volumes, but none others were published. Medina, Mexico 281; Palau 135424; Pilling 2253; Sabin 40084 ("rare").