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(MEXICO.) Neve y Molina, Luis de. Reglas de Orthographia, Diccionario y Arte del Idioma Othomi. Frontispiece plate, engraved table leaf. Small 8vo, contemporary vellum with ties, minor wear; bound without endpapers, moderate worming affecting a few words. Mexico, 1767
first edition. A dictionary of the Otomi language, spoken near what is now Mexico City. "The author was the first to establish a proper system of characters, which has been since retained"--Sabin 52413. Medina, Mexico V:5174; Palau 190159 ("muy rara"); Sotheby's sale, 5 May 1981, lot 365 (this copy).
