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"A COMPLETE COPY IS SCARCELY KNOWN" (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1611.) Pedro de Arenas. Vocabulario manual de las lenguas castellana, y mexicana. [16], 160 pages. 8vo, contemporary vellum, moderate wear and staining, lightly restitched to text block; lacking free endpapers, moderate dampstaining and wear to exterior leaves; early ownership inscription on 4th leaf, partial marca de fuego on top edge. Mexico: Enrico Martinez, [1611]
First edition of one of the more popular Nahuatl-Spanish dictionaries. Another edition in 183 pages was issued by Martinez, apparently later that year, and it went through as many as 16 editions over the course of three centuries. Medina, Mexico 256; Palau 15920 ("rarisima"); Pilling 150; Sabin 1935 ("volume of great rarity . . . a complete copy is scarcely known"). 6 copies in OCLC, and none traced at auction since 1926.
