Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/53
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    217¢ MOLINA (Fr. Alonso de). Vocabulario en lengua Castellana y Mexicana. With large woodcut Coat-of-Arms on first title. Woodcut illus- tration of a figure kneeling in prayer, on recto of last leaf, wood- cut vignette on verso. The second part, with new pagination, has separate title in Roman letter: Vocabulario en lengua Mexicana y Castellana; with large woodcut of St. Francis surrounded by Gothic lettering. Colophon has woodcut vignette, with woodcut sacred monogram within a wreath on verso. Text in Roman letter, double columns. SECOND Epition. Small folio, full blue levant morocco, blind- stamped and gilt fillet border, gilt panelled back, g.e., bound by Riviere. Mexico, Antonio de Spinosa, 1571. (See Illustration Overleaf). £150 Medina, No. 65, Palau’s Manual, Vol. V, p. 205. Salva (footnote No. 28, to his citation No. 3775) states: “It is the most notable work that exists in the American languages, and is therefore greatly valued.” Sabin (No. 49867) warns the buyer of this very scarce edition to “ be careful to secure a copy with title-pages to both parts, for sometimes the first title-page being deficient the enterprise of a dealer induces him to put the second in its place, as it reads nearly the same; the woodcut, however, represents San Francis, and differs from the escutcheon on the first title.” Alonso de Molina was a Spanish Franciscan friar, who spent a great many years in Mexico and mastered the native language at an early age. He devoted much of his life to disseminating the doctrines of Christianity amongst the Indians, in their own language. |
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