Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 318

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(MEXICO--1717.) Avila, Francisco de. Arte de la lengua mexicana, y breves platicas ... para exhortacion de su obligacion á los Indios. [13], 37 leaves. Small 8vo, modern vellum; title page a bit worn and stained, repaired tear on leaf G3, lower corner of final leaf restored with slight loss of text, two leaves of notes in Nahuatl bound in at end, binder's stamps on endpapers. México: Herederos de la Viuda de Miguel de Ribera Calderón, 1717

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Avila was a Franciscan priest based in the village of Milpa Alta. Medina, México 2478; Palau 20391; Pilling 193.