Antique volume of Historia universal de la primitiva y milagrosa imagen de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe containing the text in Spanish including various prefaces and poems and a full double column prose text on the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Antique volume of Historia universal de la primitiva y milagrosa imagen de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe containing the text in Spanish including various prefaces and poems and a full double column prose text on the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Madrid Spain 1743

Size: High 30.5 cm - Wide 2.5 cm - Long 22 cm

CONDITION: Minor foxing and wear on pages; minor wear on and insect holes in cover

Unless otherwise stated,

Antique book from the 18th century.

Mariology. America. Mexico .

Francisco de San José. Publication: Madrid, by Antonio Marín, 1743. 1st and only edition.

Physical description: Folio. 28 h, intaglio plate (image of the Virgin of Guadalupe), 332 pages. Period parchment.

Notes: Deals with all Guadeloupean Marian devotions in America. Very rare in commerce, and even more so with engraving. Single edition.

References: #Palau 292368 points out that “it is the most esteemed of the works that deal with the dedication of Guadalupe.” Our Lady of Guadalupe, commonly known as the Virgin of Guadalupe, is a Marian apparition of the Catholic Church of Mexican origin, whose image has its main center of worship in the Basilica of Guadalupe, located on the slopes of the Tepeyac hill, in the north of Mexico City.