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LOSA, Francisco. Vita Condotta dal servo di Dio Gregorio Lopez nella Nuova Spagna. Rome: Stamperia del Komarek al Corso, 1740. Small 4to. Quarter sheep, marbled sides (covers and lower right dampstained; without folding frontispiece). Engraved capitals. [16], 231pp. Sabin 42587 (“The only Italian version which has come under my notice…one of the most successful of the early missionaries among the Indians of New Spain…At the age of twenty he landed at Vera Cruz, and soon after pitched his tent among the Chichimecos Indians. He died on the 20th of July, 1596, in Santa Fe, six miles from Mexico, where Father Losa wrote his life in 1613.”).