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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1672.) Vega, Pedro de la. La Rosa de Alexandria, entre flores de humanas, y divinas letras,
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Description: (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1672.) Vega, Pedro de la. La Rosa de Alexandria, entre flores de humanas, y divinas letras, bound with Juan José Mota's related Panegyrico a la vida . . . Santa Catharina. Frontispiece portrait. [7], 155, [10]; [12] leaves. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn on fore-edge; lacking leaves 5-6, minor foxing, minor worming. - Mexico: Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, 1672; Ribera Calderon, 1716
Footnote: first edition of a biography of the fourth-century Saint Catharine of Alexandria. The Iglesia Santa Catarina was one of the first churches in Mexico, and had recently been rebuilt in 1662 by through the generosity of Doña Isabel de la Barrera. Medina Mexico 1082; Palau 354967; Sabin 51098 (Mota).