Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 346

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(PARAGUAY.) Antonio Ortiz Mayans. Diccionario Castellano-Guarani. Small portrait of the author on front wrapper. [4], 67 pages including final errata leaf. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers, staple-bound, worn and detached, lacking backstrip, some staining; repaired tear to title page, chipping at edges without loss of text, a few leaves detached; author's inked authentication signature stamp on verso of title page. Asunción, Paraguay: Zurucu-á, 1932

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First edition of a frequently reprinted seminal dictionary of the Guaraní language, which remains one of the primary languages of Paraguay. One copy in OCLC, at a French anthropological museum, listed at 66 pages.