Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 365

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PERU.) León Pinelo, Antonio de. Vida del . . . Toribio Alfonso Mogrovejo, Arcobispo de la Ciudad de los Reyes Lima. Engraved title page. [38 of 44], 421 pages. 4to, early vellum, minor wear; lacking frontispiece portrait and leaves a2, b2-3, and Eee4, a few leaves remargined including title, front hinge split, minor worming, a few early manuscript notes. [Madrid], 1653
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A life of Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo (1538-1606), the archbishop of Lima who spent decades traversing Peru alone on foot. He is said to have baptized hundreds of thousands, and was canonized in 1726. European Americana 653/72; JCB, page II:430; Medina BHA 7727 (listed in the prologue to Volume VI); Palau 135759; Sabin 40058. Provenance: Gaspar Perez Gomez; Buckingham Smith; Swann sale, 6 March 1997, lot 280, to the consignor.