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Sale 2687 - Lot 314

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MEXICO--REFERENCE.) Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta. Bibliografía Mexicana del Siglo XVI. Numerous reproductions; small photograph of the author laid down on verso of half-title. xxix, 419 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, rebacked with manuscript spine label; scattered manuscript notes in margins, numerous bookmarks in place; uncut, title page in red and black. One of 350 copies. Mexico, 1886
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First edition, apparently Nicolas León's working copy. Palau 99127; Streeter sale VII:4356.

With--several other shorter bibliographical works laid in or bound in, including a 6-page 1917 promotional leaflet for a Robledo reproduction of the 1550 Doctrina Christiana; Nicolas León's "Un Impreso Mexicanao del Siglo XVI," numbered 1, 2 and 3, each 4 to 13 pages, 1887; the 1890 index to Icazbalceta, warmly inscribed by the compiler Catherine Janvier to Nicolas León; and Henry R. Wagner, "Sixteenth-Century Mexican Imprints," 20 pages, 1925.

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