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(MEXICO.) Landívar, Rafael.
Rusticatio Mexicana.
3 plates. xxviii, 209, [1] pages.
8vo, contemporary mottled calf, minor wear; moderate foxing, minor dampstaining; early
inscription on flyleaf, marca de fuego on top edge.
Bologna, Italy: Aquinatis, 1782
[2,000/3,000]
Greatly expanded second edition of an epic Latin poem on the people and landscape of Mexico
and Guatemala. Landívar was a Guatemalan who moved to México, became a Jesuit, and then
went to Italy after the expulsion. The Jesuit university in Guatemala is named in his honor.
See Laird’s 2006 book, “The Epic of America: An Introduction to Rafael Landívar and the
Rusticatio Mexicana.” Medina BHA 5004; Palau 131046; Sabin 38839. Provenance:
Sloan auction, 11 December 2009, lot 248; no other copies known at auction since 1971.