Reglas de orthographia, diccionario y arte del idioma othomi: breve instruccion para los principiantes.
Mexico: Impressas en Mexico con las licencias necessarias, en la Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, en el Puente del Espiritu Santo, 1767. [title page, frontis: lacking] 12 preliminary leaves, 160 pp. 5 3/4 x 4 inches. Contemporary vellum with cloth ties. First edition. Lacking title page and frontis, vellum worn, small stain to the bottom edge of the first few and last 30 leaves, occasionally touching a few words of text, last leave partially separated and ragged at the edges, bound without endpapers. Palau 190159. Medina: Mexico, 5174. Sabin 49896. Pilling 2738. LeClerc 2375. Garcia Icazbalceta 55. Vinaza: Leng 356. Item #45529
First edition of the Spanish-Otomi dictionary, by Luis de Neve y Molina, official interpreter of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of the Indies, Mexico. Lacking title page and frontis [as usual] but has the list of errata, engraved, dated 1768, covering p. 14-135, on an unnumbered leaf, inserted between p. 12 and p. 13. Pages 30 and 31 interchanged.
"The Othomi language differs in structure from those spoken in Mexico, having more resemblance to the language of Eastern Asia than any other. The author was the first to establish a proper system of characters, which has been retained." Sabin 52413.
Price: $500.00