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(BIBLE)
Sagrada Biblia, en Latin y Español. Con ...

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Sagrada Biblia, en Latin y Español. Con notas literales, críticas é históricas, prefacios y disertaciones.
Complete in 25 volumes. Vols. I and IV with
* With additional volume: Estampas y Mapas para la Edicion Mejicana de la Sagrada Biblia del Abad Vence. (New York), 1835.
Containing 37 Biblical plates and maps of the Holy Land. Lightly browned with occasional wear, previous owner’s marks. Contemporary uniform gilt-ruled tree-calf, with green morocco spine-labels, rubbed. 4to, text vol: rectangular folio. Collation available upon request. Darlow & Moule 8515.

Imprenta de Galván, México: 1831-33.


The first Bible printed in Mexico - indeed, the first Bible in Spanish America as a whole.

     The preface, addressed "A la Iglesia Mejicana", is signed by Mariano Galvan Rivera, who is described elsewhere as the proprietor of the translation. With elaborate prolegomena, dissertations, prefaces, tables, etc.
     Based on a Bible published in 25 volumes in Paris, 1820-4 and known as the "Bible de Vence."