South America.- Quecha language.- Davila (Francisco) Tratado de los Evangelios, que Nuestra Madre la Iglesia Propone en todo el Año, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, title extensively repaired and restored with lower portions in facsimile, first 3ff. of text repaired and restored at margins, affecting some text, 2C6-8 and vol.2 f. with portrait of St. Peter supplied in facsimile, other ff. with minor restoration, not affecting text, trimmed at outer margin, affecting printed marginalia, occasional light damp-staining, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, light wear to corners, folio, [Lima, 1646-48]; sold not subject to return.

⁂ First edition of this exceptionally rare work, we can trace no other copy at auction in the last 50 years and only 4 other copies in institutions.

A collection of 122 sermons printed in Spanish and Quecha for use by missionaries. "The first substantial book of new sermons for Indians to be published in Peru since 1585. . . . Offers valuable insight into the style and strategies of one of the most knowledgeable evangelizers in seventeenth-century Peru." - Kenneth R.Mills and William B.Taylor, Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History, p.227.