Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1634.) Group of 3 works in indigenous languages. Various sizes; generally worn. Mexico and Puebla, 1634-1819

Additional Details

Bartolomé de Alva. "Confessionario mayor, y menor en lengua mexicana, y platicas contra las supresticiones." [4], 52 leaves. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn; waste-paper pastedowns, lacking free endpapers, title page stained, 4th leaf and leaves 48-51 defective, lacking final leaf, manuscript notes in margins. Mexico: Francisco Salbago, 1634. A confessional in parallel Nahuatl and Spanish. Medina, Mexico 444; Palau 9049; Pilling 70; Sabin 48375.

Antonio de Guadalupe Ramírez. "Breve compendio de todo lo que debe saber, y entender el christiano . . . dispuesto en lengua othomi." [18], 80 pages. 4to, early vellum, quite worn; later manuscript waste endpapers, vermin damage to last half of book, with wear and text loss to last 8 leaves, first errata page without the usual blank cancel pasted over, lacking the folded "Epitome" broadside which occasionally accompanies this work; early inscription on final page. Mexico: herederos del Joseph de Jáuregui, 1785. A guide to the Otomi language, with the Otomi alphabet demonstrated throughout. Second state, with a revised second errata leaf. Medina, Mexico 7585; Palau 246641; Pilling 3174; Sabin 67637.

"Clara y sucinta exposicion del pequeño catecismo impreso en el idioma mexicano." [3], 66, [1] leaves. 8vo, early vellum, moderate wear; moderate dampstaining and worming; original owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Puebla: Oratorio de S. Felipe Néri, 1819. A catechism in colloquial Nahuatl and Spanish on facing pages. Ayer, Nahuatl page 81; Medina, Puebla 1678; Palau 55072; Pilling 808; Sabin 13233.