61 242
100
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(MEXICO.) Lugo, Bernardo de.
Gramatica en la lengua general del
Nuevo Reyno, llamada Mosca.
[25], 158
leaves. 8vo, contemporary vellum, minor
wear; endpapers renewed, repaired tears and
erasure on title page; early inscription and 2
inked stamps on title page, another inked
stamp on final page.
Madrid: Guzmán, 1619
[3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION
.
A grammar and confession in the
now nearly extinct Chibcha language spoken by
the Muisca people of what is now Colombia.
European Americana 619/75; Medina, BHA
687; Palau 143543; Sabin 42667 (“excessively
rare”). None known at auction since 1981.
100
98
99
98
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(MEXICO.) López de Gómara, Francisco.
La historia general de las Indias . . .
y la conquista de Mexico y de la Nueva España.
Volume I of II only. Illustration of
buffalo on page 288. 300 leaves. Small 8vo, later stiff vellum, minor wear; leaves C2 and C7
transposed, repairs to a few leaves, final 5 leaves in facsimile only.
Antwerp: Nuyts, 1554
[500/750]
A later edition (3rd or 4th?) after the 1552 original. European Americana 554/30; Medina,
BHA 165; Sabin 27729; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 2j.
99
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(MEXICO.) López de Gómara, Francisco.
La terza parte delle historie dell´
Indie.
[27] (of 32), 402 leaves. Small 8vo, early vellum, moderate wear; lacking top two
lines of title page, restored in facsimile, lacking preliminary leaves 2-6 (facsimiles laid in)
and 2 preliminary blanks, intermittent foxing, endpapers renewed.
Venice: Ziletti, 1566
[500/750]
Follows Cieza de León’s 1560 first part and López’s 1565 continuation. European
Americana 566/23; Palau 141180; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 2y.