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(PUEBLA—1766.) Levanto, Leonardo.
Cathecismo de la lengua zaapoteca.
Woodcut of Saint Francis on title page. [12], 30, [10] pages. 4to, later tree calf gilt, minor
wear; hinges split, later endpapers, lone worm hole in first 3 leaves, minor dampstaining on
bottom edge, a few pencil notes in text.
Puebla: Colegio Real de San Ignacio, 1766
[4,000/6,000]
Possibly the first edition of a Zapotec catechism.The book’s preliminaries are dated in Oaxaca
in 1732. Medina discusses an alleged 1732 Oaxaca edition, but doubts its existence; no copies
are presently known. This 1766 edition is not recorded in Palau or in Medina’s Pueblo. Its
imprint line notes that it is “reimpresso.” OCLC lists a single incomplete copy at the John
Carter Brown Library with only 26 pages plus the preliminaries found here.The 1776 edition
is usually called the second edition, and is less scarce.