Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 411

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MEXICO.) Salguero, Pedro. Vida del Venerable Padre . . . Fr. Diego Basalenque Provincial que sue de la Provincia de San Nicolas de Mechoacan. 8vo, contemporary vellum, back cover irregular; bottom edge trimmed on a slight slant; signature of later owner Francisco Banegas Galván on front free endpaper. Rome, 1761

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Second edition, with the first published in Mexico in 1664 being extremely scarce. Basalenque (1577-1651) served as a missionary from the Order of St. Augustin to the Convent of San Luis Potosí in Mexico, and authored several important works on the native Mexican languages. Palau 287455; Sabin 75779.