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MEDINA, BALTHASAR DE. Vida, Martyrio y Beatificación del Invicto Proto-Mártyr de el Japón San Felipe de Jesús . . . Segunda Impressión. Engraved plate depicting the crucifixion of San Felipe. [28], 176 pages. 4to, 205x144 mm, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties; scattered marginal foxing. Madrid: Juan García Infanzón, 1751
Second edition of a life of Felipe de Jesús, the first Mexican saint and the patron saint of Mexico City, who was one of a group of missionaries martyred in 1597 in Nagasaki. The first edition was published in 1683 in Mexico. Cordier 395; Palau 159375 note; Streit-Dindinger VI, 1446.
