Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MEXICO--HISTORY.) Rafael Landívar. Rusticatio Mexicana. 3 plates. xxviii, 209, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn; pastedowns detached, minor foxing; 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 Mexico, 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. One other copy known at auction since 1971.