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(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1692.) Three works on Nahuatl bound in one volume. 3 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, moderate wear; lacking free endpapers, minor worming and dampstaining, moderate wear including a few small early paper repairs, missing leaves as noted; edges crudely tinted red. Mexico, 1692-1728
Pedro de Arenas. "Vocabulario manual de las lenguas castellana, y mexicana." [12], 140 pages; moderate wear to contents. 5th(?) edition of one of the more popular Nahuatl-Spanish dictionaries, first published in 1611. Mexico: Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1728.
Francisco de Avila. "Arte de la lengua mexicana, y breves platicas . . . de su obligacion á los Indios." [12 of 13], 36, [1] leaves. First and only edition; lacking errata leaf; signed by Avila on verso of third leaf. Mexico: Ribera Calderón, 1717.
[Juan Guerra.] [Arte de la lengua mexicana segun la acostumbran hablar los Indios en todo el Obispado de Guadalaxara, parte del de Guadiana, y del de Mechoacan.] [6 of 8], 48 of 63 leaves; lacking title page and second leaf, also leaves 41, 48-59, and 62-63. First edition of a grammar, vocabulary, and instructions for administering the sacrament in a regional dialect of Nahuatl. One copy in OCLC (defective copy at the John Carter Brown Library). [Mexico: Rodriguez Lupercio, 1692].
