Translation, by Robert d'Andilly of: La vida, que el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez, printed in Madrid, 1642; it was first printed under title: Vida, que hizo el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez in Mexico City, 1613.

Gregorio López was a wandering hermit, born in Spain, who left for the New World in 1562. The author and the hermit both lived near the village of Santa Fe. Although López never became a saint, he was accorded the title “venerable”, a distinction rarely given by the church to figures from the Spanish colonies.

Signatures: ã⁸ (ã1 verso blank) ẽ² A-2L⁸⁻⁴ 2M⁶ (2M2 and 2M3 missigned 2K2 and 2K3)

Errata: p. [20], 1st count.

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes an engraved frontispiece portrait of Gregorio López.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, II:2095.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 142532.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, II: col. 1364n, no. 1.

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-septième siècle, 8410.

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 1568n.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, III:280.

European Americana 674/120.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: H.T. [i.e. Henri Ternaux-Compans]: gold-tooled stamp on front and rear boards.