Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 367

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(MEXICO--1764.) Braun, Bartholomé. Carta del P. Bartholome Braun visitador de la provincia Tarahumara . . . Glandorff. sobre la apostolica vida, virtudes, y santa muerte del P. Francisco Hermano Glandorff. [2], 33, [1] pages. 4to, disbound; minor soiling and foxing to title page, otherwise quite clean; small inked MM stamp to verso of title page. México: Colegio de San Ildefonso, 1764

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Father Glandorff was a longtime Jesuit missionary among the Tamahumara of northwestern México who died in 1763. Medina, México 4892; Palau 34589; Sabin 7446; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 143 ("contains many examples of Father Glandorff's marvelous experiences"). None known at auction; Eberstadt offered a copy for $3,000 in 1963.