In Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara.
Attributed to Jesuit priests José de Acosta and Juan de Atienza of the Colegio de la Compañía de Jesus (de Lima). Cf. Medina, p. xxx-xxxii; Johnson.
The fourth product of A. Ricardo's press in Lima, this is the third book printed in South America. Cf. Woodbridge; Medina.
Signatures: [par.]⁸ AA-ZZ⁸, AAA-DDD⁸; last leaf blank. BB3, GG3, KK5 missigned AA3, HH3, KK6. Leaf [NN6] is a cancel.
Jesuit trigram on title page. Quechua and Aymara translations printed in columns under Spanish text of Sermones. Many woodcut initials and printer's devices. Leaves printed on both sides.
Several errors in pagination: page numbers repeated.
LC copy inscribed on t.p.: Concuerda con el original, Joseph de Acosta. Cf. J.G. Johnson.
LC copy has preliminary leaves [par.] 4 to [par.] 7 repeated (providing 24 preliminary leaves in all). Imperfect: wormed, with very slight loss of text. Some underlining, marginalia.
LC copy has a 2-page typed "Memorandum" tipped in, signed C.A. Romero, Lima, 10 nov. 1898, providing an English-language summary of the book's history, as well as a list of works published in Lima by Antonio Ricardo.
Acquired by the Library of Congress in 1898.
Brown, J.C. cat., 1493 to 1600 205
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675 I (pt. II), p. 303
Johnson, J.G. The Book in the Americas, 1988 34
Medina, J.T. La Imprenta en Lima, 1584-1824 I,3
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Woodbridge, H.C. Printing in Colonial Spanish America p. 41-44