(MEXICAN IMPRINT 1698) Ramirez Jose Via lactea seu vita can

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1698.) Ramirez, Jose. Via lactea, seu vita candidissima S. Philippi Nerii. Illustrated additional title page, portrait plate. [38], 222, [12] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear, label remnant on backstrip; quite fresh internally; edges speckled blue; marca de fuego of the Franciscan Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Querétaro (BF-12027) on top edge. Mexico, 1698

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First Mexican edition of a biography of the Italian saint Philip Neri (1515-1595), notable for its unusual title page by engraver Antonio de Castro, illustrating the Milky Way of the title. "Ramirez of Valencia with immense labour composed his epitome entirely with words drawn from the Holy Scriptures"--Bacci, Life of Saint Philip Neri, page xxx. Also attributed to Juan de la Pedrosa. Medina, Mexico III:1705; Palau 246730-III; Sabin 67647.