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(PUEBLA--1766.) Levanto, Leonardo. Cathecismo de la lengua zaapoteca. Woodcut of Saint Francis on title page. [12], 30, [10] pages. 4to, later tree calf gilt, minor wear; hinges split, later endpapers, lone worm hole in first 3 leaves, minor dampstaining on bottom edge, a few pencil notes in text. Puebla: Colegio Real de San Ignacio, 1766
Possibly the first edition of a Zapotec catechism. The book's preliminaries are dated in Oaxaca in 1732. Medina discusses an alleged 1732 Oaxaca edition, but doubts its existence; no copies are presently known. This 1766 edition is not recorded in Palau or in Medina's Pueblo. Its imprint line notes that it is "reimpresso." OCLC lists a single incomplete copy at the John Carter Brown Library with only 26 pages plus the preliminaries found here. The 1776 edition is usually called the second edition, and is less scarce.
