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San Marino, CA 91108
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Includes illustrations of navigation instruments, ship cross sections, etc.; coat of arms on t.p.; charts; and astronomical tables. Leaves 16-23 and 78-87 lack numeration. Signatures: pi⁴ A-T⁸ V⁴. Contains a glossary of nautical terms on leaves 129-156, with running title: Vocabulario nautico.
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Guidebook targeted for Mexican travelers visiting the World's Columbian Exposition.
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Manuscripts
Enclosed in: 1769, Aug. 29. Galvez, Joseph de, Marques de la Sonora to Carlos Francisco de Croix
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Text in Nahuatl; licenses, Prologo, other preliminary matter, and Tabla in Spanish. Title page woodcut device of the Franciscan Order; on verso woodcut illustration of penitent at confession, repeated on leaf 40 recto, woodcut device on leaf 102 recto and at end of Tabla. Numerous errors in foliation. Signature: [superscript pi]A-B⁸ A-O⁸ ²A². Errata on [2] leaves at end. Includes index.
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An extensive report on the culmination of various attempts at an interocean railroad from Coatzacoalos on the Gulf side to Salina Cruz on the Pacific. The rail contract with the Mexican Government, undertaken by S. Person & Son, LTD. was started in 1899 and was finished in 1907. The finished railway was 191 miles long.
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![[Sermonario en Lengua Mexicana] : [donde se contiene (por el orden del Misal nuevo Romano) dos Sermones en todas las Dominicas y Festividades principales de todo el año, y otro en las Fiestas de los Santos, con sus Vidas, y Comunes. Con un Catecismo en lengua mexicana y española, con el Calendario.] / [Compuesto por el R.P. Fr. Juan de la Anunciación, Subprior del monasterio de S. Agustín, de México]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4LIP4DU%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Title taken from copy described in Garcia Icazbalceta, J. Bibliografía Mexicana del siglo XVI ... pt. 1, no. 73. Text of the Sermonario, containing 2 sermons for each day, is in Nahuatl, for the Cathecismo in Spanish and Nahuatl in parallel columns. Half title page in Nahuatl for the saints' feast days: Nican ompehua yn temachtilli, ynitechpovi sanctoral. Separate title page: Cathecismo en lengua mexicana y espanola. En Mexico, Por Antonio Ricardo. M.D.LXXVII. Woodcut title page vignette of St. Augustine in different versions on all three title pages. Decorative initials and tail-piece. Includes index, Tablade de los sermones, and the calendar of saints' feast days. Errata on leaf 3E8v. Errors in foliation: leaves 23-24, 69, 99, 101, 133, 149, 165, 167 and 168 are misnumbered respectively: 33, 42, 70, 98, 104, 131, 159, 565, 158, 568. Signatures: A-P⁸ , Q⁴ , Aa-Mm⁸ , Nn⁴ , Aaa-Eee⁸.
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