Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 333

Price Realized: $ 688
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(PERU--1666.) Bertolini, Serafino. La Rosa Peruana; overo vita della sposa di Christo Suor Rosa de Santa Maria nativa della citta di Lima. Frontispiece portrait. [14], 615, [1] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, moderate wear, paper label remnants on backstrip; minor foxing and toning, a few manuscript notes. Rome: Tinassi, 1666
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first edition. An Italian biography of Saint Rose of Lima, America's first Catholic saint, with commentary on the religious practices of the Incas. European Americana 666/5; Palau 28497. 5 copies in OCLC, and not known at auction since 1968.