This is the separate issue of vol. I, which was issued without the map and has “The End” at the bottom of p. 331—the two-volume issue has “End of first volume” instead.

This copy includes a pencilled marginal comment, commanding, “Read this if thou canst be an atheist — or a fool.”

•  ESTC W36508; Bristol B10094; not in Evans. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and double gilt rules; binding with small scrapes and rubbed patches, upper board edge darkened, and leather starting to crack over the spine and joints. Without the folding map. First and last few leaves foxed.

This is an untrimmed copy in original boards, with 24 pages of advertising for Carey publications bound in at the front of the volume. The preliminary map, engraved by John Bower, has hand-colored border lines; this American edition does not call for the plates found in the English first, but does include in-text depictions of several “Ethiopic inscriptions.”

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 33864; NSTC 2S3118. Publisher’s quarter tan paper over light blue paper–covered sides; front cover detached and back joint cracked, binding spotted, paper cracked and split along spine, spine label now absent and replaced with hand-inked title, spine with later paper shelving label. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1829. Half-title with portion of outer margin torn away (not touching text) and laid in. Map lightly foxed, with two short tears along folds. Pages age-toned, with occasional spots of foxing.

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In addition to the wealth of information here about the origins of the cave as a site of miracles, its history throughout the colonial period, and accounts of miracles occurring there, this work also has important biographies of Augustinians of the 17th century who played important roles in the care and perpetuation of the site.

The engraving shows the cave, the Christ figure, pilgrims, and Augustinian friars.

•  Palau 302085; Medina, Mexico, 10516. 19th-century mottled sheep, abraded, missing spine label; spine is cracking down center, and volume may sometime split into two halves. Some brown stains, most notable in inner and upper or lower margins; lower outside corner of title–page neatly excised. Old ink notes and scribblings.

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•  Not in ESTC; not found either via OCLC or NUC. Removed from a nonce volume. Reverse with early inked inscription. Tattered, with lower quarter lost, as well as several words along the chipped and repaired inner margin. An incomplete survivor, but scarce and still of interest.

In our considerable experience, works in Tarascan are considerably rarer than those in Nahuatl, the principal language of central Mexico.

•  Medina, Mexico, 3205; Viñaza 294 (giving wrong date of publication); García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 70 (also giving wrong date); Palau 309782; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 3572.   Recased in contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties; some repairs to vellum; vellum cockled and with stains. Modern endpapers. Lacks the title-leaf and the full-page woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee. Marginal damage to first leaf of front index and to last three leaves (i.e., rear index), repaired. Small loss of perhaps a dozen letters total, all in the indices. Much damaged and priced accordingly — still, textually complete.  (23340)

•  ESTC T34530. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Lacking the plate. Edges shaved, in some cases with loss of letters or final lines. First few leaves with waterstaining along lower inner margins and light foxing.

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•  NSTC 2S17713.   Publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, front cover with patches of discoloration, spine sunned. Front pastedown with traces of now-absent label. Sewing going, with first signature and a few plates separated, and a number of other leaves loosening. A lesser copy at, yes, a lower price — complete.  (24334)

•  Sabin 86487; Medina, Biblioteca hispano-americana, 1773n; Palau 318693; European Americana 724/165. Recent quarter calf, antique style: Round spine with raised bands accented with gilt rules and beading; gilt center devices; marbled paper sides. Ex-library copy with stamps. First few leaves crumpled in lower margins; last dozen leaves foxed, sometimes heavily. Lacks all plates and maps except one map—yet pleasing to the reader.

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•  ESTC T91378; NCBEL, III, 255. 19th-century library half sheep over paper sides, worn and rubbed; covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution. Title-page and a few others stamped; back free endpaper with pocket. The pair of annuals constitutes a rare and expensive set; this volume is rare enough and interesting enough to be offered for itself, on its own.

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An epitome of the “antiquarian” both in form and content, this is a marvelous compendium of royal history and lore.

Thefour oversized, folding maps were done by French cartographer Robert de Vaugondy, who served as geographer to Louis XV as well as to the Duke of Lorraine and Bar.

•  Brunet, V, 636; Dibdin, II, 455–56; Schweiger, II, 1004; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 208; Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, 394. Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in gilt triple fillets, spines gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; leather cracked over all joints and starting to peel, with rubbing over edges, sides, and at corners. Title-pages with traces of heavily pencilled shelving numbers. One leaf with short tear from outer margin, not touching text. Some generally faint foxing and waterstaining. All edges gilt. Once entirely resplendent, still rather imposing.