Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1640.) Martin de León. Manual breve, y forma de administrar los santos sacramentos á los Indios. [2], 53, [1] leaves. 8vo, early vellum, minor wear, tag on backstrip; minor wear and foxing to contents including chip on title page, tightly trimmed; early signature to title page, inked stamp on verso of leaf 19. Mexico: Francisco Robledo, 1640

Additional Details

Second edition of this translation of the sacraments into Nahuatl: baptism, matrimony, funeral, and more. Medina, Mexico 524; Palau 135426n; Pilling 2255. None of any edition traced at auction since a Swann sale, 3 April 1986.