Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 378

Price Realized: $ 28,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
A VERY EARLY SOUTH AMERICAN IMPRINT (PERU.) Tercero Cathecismo y Exposicion de la Doctrina Christiana, por Sermones. Small 4to, early vellum (possibly from another volume), one of the two leather clasp loops broken; disbound, dampstaining throughout, a few early inked annotations, trimmed tightly to 7 3/4 inches with occasional grazing of headlines, several old repairs of short tears and lost corners, last 3 leaves quite defective but stabilized with early repairs; various inscriptions and a bookplate on 19th-century rear flyleaf. lacks leaves 111 and 185 (photocopies supplied). Ciudad de los Reyes [Lima], 1585
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A catechism in Spanish, with translations into Quichua and Aymara in double columns below. The third or fourth book printed by Antonio Ricardo in Lima, on the first press in South America. JCB I:303; Medina Lima 3; Palau 330311; Sabin 94838. No copies noted at auction since 1988; a complete copy is presently offered at retail for more than $300,000.