[Rarebooks] FS Handmade book Amate Paper Cut-Outs to exorcize evil spirits

[Mary Gilliam]

For Sale

Garcia, Tellez Alfonso. Historia De La Curacion de Antigua San Pablito,  Pahuatlan Pue. San Pablito Pahuatlan, Mexico, 1978. 28pp. Illustrated with amate paper cut-outs. Accordion fold format 7 X5 1/2. 
inches. Yellow ribon ties. Very good condition. Book explains a shamanic ritual to exorcize evil spirits which causes bad health. Each page has a hand-cut shamanic figure of amate paper with a handwritten explanation in Spanish. Amate paper is made from the ficus tree in Mexico and can be traced to before the Conquest. 
OCLC lists 3 copies. This copy does not have the angel over the baby Jesus figure on last page found in at least one another copy.  It either was never added by the maker or it was removed for some unknown reason.

$500 less trade discount






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