(PERU) Sancho de Melgar Esteban Arte de la Lengua General de

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(PERU.) Sancho de Melgar, Esteban. Arte de la Lengua General del Ynga llamada Qquechhua. 16mo, disbound; title page detached and mounted on rice paper stub with minor restoration, minor foxing, very faint dampstaining on later pages, tightly trimmed to 5 1/2 inches with a few headlines grazed, blank lower part of final leaf restored; partially erased early owner's signature and faint inked stamp of Carlos Oportus Duran on title page. Lima, 1691

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A Spanish grammar with examples in Quechua. The author was a native of Lima and a professor of the Quechua language. This copy appeared at a Sotheby's Parke Bernet sale, 6 March 1981; no other copies are known to have appeared at auction since 1918. LeClerc 2405 ("fort rare"); Medina, Lima 635; Palau 296815; Sabin 47424. 3 copies in WorldCat.