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

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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.

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