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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Author's name, Ioa de Gaona, mentioned in license on t.p. verso. Text entirely in Nahuatl, Prologo in Spanish, short laudatory poems by Frater Antonius in Latin. Colophon: A honra, y gloria de n[uest]ro senor Iesu Christo, y d[e] su be[n]dita madre: acabaro[n]se de imprimir estos Colloq[ui]os, co[n] lice[n]cia y priuilegio; en Mexico, en casa d[e] Pedro Ocharte, a .xviij de Octubre, de .M.D.Lxxxij. años. Title vignette, portrait of St. Francis. "Con licencia, y priuilegio." Foliation errors: leaves 13 and 15 wrongly numbered 12 and 14, respectively. Signatures: a-b⁸ A-P⁸.
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In Spanish and Nahuatl. Signatures: a-p⁸. Misprinting c2 as 2c, and c4 as 4c. With a title page woodcut of St. Francis receiving the stigmata. Historiated and decorated capitals. Black letter, with italics on title page and for headings, and roman type for other headings and closing prayer. In two parts, with separate foliation, register is continuous.
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