[LEAF BOOKS]. SHAFFER, Ellen (1904-1994). Fray Maturino Gilberti & His Books. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1963. 12mo. Illustrated. 20 pp. Publisher's blue cloth backstrip over boards, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 49 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL LEAF, OUT OF A TOTAL EDITION OF 149. Copies with the leaf are exceedingly scarce. Leaf is from Thesoro spiritual de pobres en lengua de Michuacan, 1575. Gilberti was a Franciscan monk (a Frenchman by birth), who spent several decades in New Spain. He wrote the first studies on the Tarasca language.

Some rubbing, toning to binding, light offsetting to endleaves, some offsetting from illustrations. Leaf is worn, chipped, toned. Fine.