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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1759.) Ignacio de Paredes. Promptuario manual mexicano. Frontispiece plate of Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola, full-page armorial woodcut. [46], 380, xc pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear; minor repairs to front free endpaper, lacking rear free endpaper, faint dampstaining, minimal worming. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1759
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A collection of 52 weekly sermons and 40 moral discussions explaining Catholic theology, entirely in Nahuatl (with the exception of the title and preliminaries). Includes a sermon recounting the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Medina, Mexico 4568 (collates differently); Palau 212739; Pilling 2892; Sabin 58575.

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