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Triduo in Ossequio di Maria Santissima di Guadalupe nel Messico...

12mo. Early twentieth-century half pink morocco over cloth covered boards, green calf label and gilt title to spine. Small paper repair to one corner of title page, very good. 60pp. Roma, Nella Stamperia Salomoni, 1789.

£450.00

A treatise about Our Lady of Guadalupe, a manifestation of the Virgin Mary who first appeared, speaking Nahuatl, before an Indigenous man named Juan Diego at the hill of Tepayac outside Mexico city in 1531.

A truncated edition of only 32pp was printed by Michele Pucinelli in Rome in 1792, with an engraved frontispiece. This was followed by a 60pp edition in 1797 also printed by Pucinelli.

This copy from the Harmsworth Library sale of 1953. Worldcat finds no copies of this edition.

Stock No.
230905