Vita Condotta dal servo di Dio Gregorio Lopez nella Nuova Spagna

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Author: Francisco Losa (1536-1624)

Year: 1740

Publisher: Stamperia del Komarek al Corso

Place: Rome

Description:

[16]+231 pages lacking folding frontispiece. Small quarto (8 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in half sheep over marbled sides. (Sabin 42587) First Italian edition first published in Mexico 1613  and in English in 1841.

Gregorio López (1542-1596) one of the most successful of the early missionaries among the Indians of New Spain…At the age of twenty he landed at Vera Cruz, and soon after pitched his tent among the Chichimecos Indians.

Condition:

Corners bumped and rubbed, covers and lower right dampstained, spine faded and rubbed, lacks folding frontispiece else about very good of a scarce edition.


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