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(LIMA—1595.) Vega, Juan de.
Institutiones grammaticae Latino carmine,
Hispana cum explicatione.
Full-length engraved portrait on verso of 4th leaf. [9] (of
12), 158, [5] leaves. 8vo, contemporary vellum, recased with repairs to backstrip and
bottom edge; lacking first three preliminary leaves, with title page provided in facsimile,
endpapers renewed, wear to several leaves tastefully conserved including a small hole in the
portrait, washed, a few inked marginal notes, moderate dampstaining, top edge unevenly
trimmed (possibly to remove marca de fuego), lacking final blank leaf. In a custom
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morocco folding case.
Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1595
[12,000/18,000]
Written by a Latin instructor at a Lima convent who had been in Perú for more than thirty
years. The anonymous engraving on verso of the 4th leaf has been identified as the first
Archbishop of Lima, Saint Toribius of Mogrobejo (illustrated in Monteil’s “L’humanisme
américain: Philosophie d’une communauté de nations,” pages 40, 49). A copy of this scarce
Lima incunable is listed in the 1918 catalogue of the Velasco collection. Only two other copies
of this book are known, at Duke University and the New York Public Library. Medina,
Historia de la Imprenta en los antiguos dominios españoles de América y Oceanía, I:127-
130; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 15.