[Rarebooks] FS: Life of the first Mexican saint (martyred in Japan) Madrid: 1754

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(JAPAN) Medina, Balthasar de. VIDA, MARTYRIO, Y BEATIFICACION DEL INVICTO PROTO-MARTYR DE EL JAPON SAN FELIPE DE JESUS, Patron de Mexico... Segunda Impression... Madrid: Juan Garcia Infanzon. 1754. 4to. (28),176pp. Title within a woodcut border. With the engraved plate depicting the crucifixion of San Felipe, and one text woodcut. Orig. limp vellum, a bit soiled. An excellent copy.    $3,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second edition of a life of Felipe de Jesus, the first Mexican saint and the patron of Mexico City (1572-1597), who was one of a group of missionaries martyred in 1597 in Nagasaki. The first edition was published in 1683 in Mexico (OCLC only records 3 copies of the 1683 edition). Tenri Central Library Catalog, p.156 (2-54).

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