Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
July 1885
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/39
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HuasrEca—continued. | omitted when the book was printed in 1767, to avoid, as the author said, an unnecessary expansion of the volume. 30182 Conversacion en Lingua Huasteca, sm. 4to. MS. 56 pp. of phrases and colloquial sentences, in Spanish and Huasteca, with a modern transcript of the same on 43 leaves, £7. 7s About 1730 UnrcpiisHep. There is no little available information concerning the Huastec language that a contribution of this kind is valuable. Maya: 30183 [Brtrran, Arte del Idioma Maya, y semilexicon Yucateco], sm. 4to. without preliminary leaves, pages 1-16, and about 12 leaves at end, sd. 30s (Mejico, 1746) 30184 Bortarrt (W.) onthe Maya Hieroglyphic Alphabet of Yucatan, Svo. with numerous MS. corrections by the author, sd. 2s 6d (1865) 30185 Ruz (el P. Fr. J.) Gramatica Yucateca, 12mo. sd. 16s Merida, 1844 Poconchi: — , See Gacn’s Travels, ante, No. 28852. Quiche: 30186 Brasseur pu Boursourc, Grammaire de la langue Quichée Espagnole-francaise mise en parallele avec ses deux dialectes, avec un Vocabulaire, Essai sur la Poésie, etc. avant Ja Conquéte, et le Rasinat-Acui, drame indigéne, Quiché-Francais, avec sa musique originale, royal 8vo. 15s Paris, 1862 30187 Porot vun: le Livre Sacré et les Mythes de Jl Antiquité Américaine, avec les livres héroiques et historiques des Quichés, Quiché et Francats, par Brasseur de Bourbourg, 8vo. maps and plate, sd. 30s Paris, 1861 This work, composed soon after the Spanish Conquest, by a native Prince, contains all the old mythology and sacred lore of the Guatemalan and Mexican people. The strange cosmogony and theogony of the Central American races will always excite interest and speculation. ‘The Abbé treats curiously upon the origin and affinities of those peoples in a learned introduction. 30188 SERMONES Y PLATICAS en lengua Quiche, 12mo. original MS. im Gothic letters, on stout parchment, 88 leaves not quite perfect, in a limp vellum wrapper, £15. Guatemala, about 1590 Probably the work of Francisco Ximenez, or of Damian Delgado. There is very little material accessible for philological study on the subject of the Quiche language, yet its importance as the tongue of the civilized architectural people of Central Amcrica is very great. The Maya and Quiche languages are the oldest dialects of an important linguistic family unconnected with the Mexican Nahuatl. Totonaca: : 30189 ZAMBRANO BONILLA (Jos.) Arte de Lengua Totonaca, ?, Conforme a el Arte de Antonio Nebrija, lleva afadido Una Doctrina de la Lengua de Navlingo, con algunas vozes de la