Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MEXICO.) Landívar, Rafael. Rusticatio Mexicana. 3 plates. xxviii, 209, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, minor wear; moderate foxing, minor dampstaining; early inscription on flyleaf, marca de fuego on top edge. Bologna, Italy: Aquinatis, 1782
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Greatly expanded second edition of an epic Latin poem on the people and landscape of Mexico and Guatemala. Landívar was a Guatemalan who moved to México, became a Jesuit, and then went to Italy after the expulsion. The Jesuit university in Guatemala is named in his honor. See Laird's 2006 book, "The Epic of America: An Introduction to Rafael Landívar and the Rusticatio Mexicana." Medina BHA 5004; Palau 131046; Sabin 38839. Provenance: Sloan auction, 11 December 2009, lot 248; no other copies known at auction since 1971.