Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 352

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1810.) Rafael Sandoval. Arte de la lengua mexicana. [16], 62, [2] pages. 8vo, later stiff vellum, minor staining; lacking endpapers, lacking frontispiece, red pencil note on page 54; edges tinted red. Mexico: Manuel Antonio Valdés, 1810
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First edition; the first new book in Nahuatl to be published since 1770. See León-Portilla, "Tepuztlahcuilolli, impresos en náhuatl," page 98. Palau calls for a frontispiece copperplate engraving of the Holy Trinity, not noted in Medina and not found in the Oxford or University of Michigan examples online, but present following the title page in the John Carter Brown Library example. Medina, Mexico 10504; Palau 297166. None traced at auction since 1967.

Bound with, as usual, two reprints of earlier Nahuatl works: "Doctrina breve sacada del catecismo mexicano, que dispuso el P. Ignacio de Paredes"; and José de la Mota, "Alabado en mexicano." [4] pages. Both [Mexico: reimpresa Mariano Zúñiga de Ontiveros, 1809]. Medina, Mexico 10289 and 10278.