Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 332

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
A POSSIBLY UNIQUE QUECHUA IMPRINT (PERU.) Prado, Pablo de. [Directorio Espiritual en la Lengua Española, y Quichua General del Inga.] [11] (of 12?), [1 in manuscript] (lacks 1-2), 3-15, [16-33], (lacks 34), 35-[41], 63-92, 71-93, 84-108, 108-112 (apparently lacks 113-115), [41]-62, 116-151, [8] leaves. 12mo, later stiff vellum, boards warped; 5 3/4 x 4 inches, lacking title page and likely at least 6 other leaves, first leaf and other edges reinforced or extended with tissue, some edge wear and minor foxing, minor dampstaining, scattered manuscript notes. should be seen. [Lima, 1640?]
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an otherwise unknown edition, probably the first, of a Quechua-Spanish book of prayers and devotions. This copy features extremely erratic pagination and collation, almost like a printed rough draft, with gatherings of four leaves, and includes an index which is of minimal utility, given the chaotic pagination. The main text is preceded by licenses and preliminaries dated through 5 March 1640. This copy seems likely to have preceded the more professionally printed 1641 edition, generally considered to be the first edition, which includes similar preliminaries and as with later editions was bound in twelves.
This copy offered circa 1978 in dealer Lawrence Feinberg's Catalogue #3. This edition not otherwise known; for other editions see JCB II:399; Medina, Lima 219; Palau 234901-2; Sabin 58069, 64880.