MONROY, Agustion Estrada [XIMENES, Fray Francisco]

Popol Vuh; Empiezan Las Historias del origin de los Indios de esta provincia de Guatemala. Traducido de la lengua Quiché a la Castellana por el R.P. Fray Francisco Ximenez

Guatemala: Ministerio de Educacion; Jose de Pineda Ibarra, 1973. Facsimile Edition. Quarto. 32cm. Publisher's decorated card covers. 301pp.; [3]. A little light spotting and soiling to the paler parts of the covers, light wear to extremities, strong and solid; internally clean and fresh, inscription to half title, ownership blindstamp to lower corner of same. A very good, bright copy.

From the library of noted anthropologist, poet, and translator Nathaniel Tarn, inscribed to him by Monroy (using Tarn's real name of Michael Mandelson), with Tarn's blind stamp to lower corner. A facsimile edition of Father Ximenez's original translation into Spanish of the Mayan creation myth.

Price: $125.00

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