Arte del idioma Zapoteco...Reimpreso por Acuerdo del C. General Mariano Jimenez...bajo la dirección y cuidado del Dr. Nicolás León...
Morelia: imprenta del Gobierno, 1886. Edition limited to 350 copies, small 8vo, pp. [2], lxxix, [1], 223, [1]; title page printed in red and black; 2 facsimiles on card; bound in contemporary half roan over marbled boards; joints cracked, extremities scuffed and worn; all else good and sound. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate, with a release stamp on the flyleaf and the notation "Pilling Library" on a rear flyleaf. A reprint of the author's Arte en lengva zapoteca, compuesto por el muy reuerendo padre Fray Iuan de Cordoua, 1578, with facsimile reproductions of the front and back covers of the original edition, the former containing the title, the latter an engraving (la Virgen del Rosario). The Zapotec languages are a group of closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean language family and which are spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highlands of Mexico. See La Vinaza, Bibliografia Espanola de Lenguas Indigenas de America (1892), 70; Palau 61868. Item #66179
Price: $250.00
