Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1767.) Carlos de Tapia Zenteno. Noticia de la lengua huasteca. Armorial engraving on second leaf. [10], 128 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, minimal wear; internally clean; edges tinted red; marca de fuego on top edge, bookplate of historian Albero Mario Carreño (1875-1962) on front pastedown, with his inked stamp in lower margin of several pages. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767

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A grammar and dictionary of the Huastec or Wasteko language, a Mayan tongue which is still spoken widely in parts of San Luis Potosí and Veracruz. A catechism is appended. Medina, Mexico 5187; Palau 327486; Pilling 3801; Sabin 94355.