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1771 · Best.-Nr. 5647 — Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogal 1771. Good. 16144pp. Small octavo. Title page in red and black. Lacks two leaves of text D1-D2. Contemporary vellum manuscript spine title edges sprinkled red. Vellum with minor soiling light wear to edge and spine ends plus two flaws in rear cover. Front free endpaper loosening. A few minor wormholes; light tanning and scattered foxing. Scarce Mexican translation of Catholic works by St. Francis de Sales 16th- and 17th-century Swiss theologian. Sales was a prolific writer but the present work contains two treatises in letter form the first to an unnamed bishop on the proper manner of preaching and the second to the priests of the Genevan diocese on the methods of taking confession. He was canonized in 1665 and in the early-20th century was declared the patron saint of journalists and writers. The translator Lino Nepomuceno Gomez Galvan was a legal and religious official in Tampico and the surrounding area whose stated goal in the introduction of this work is that it might assist in the reform and improvement of Church ministrations in his region. Unfortunately lacking two leaves of text but neverthelass quite a scarce Puebla imprint from the Hogal family of printers with an attractive title page printed in red and black. Joseph Antonio de Hogal unknown books