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2 parts in 1, each with separate title-page & foliation. [4, [121, [1]; [4], 162 leaves. Text in 2 columns. Woodcut illustrates on each title-page; woodcut illustrations/devices on both sides of the final leaf of each part; decorative initials. (4to) 27.5x20.5 cm. (10¼x8¼"), period full limp vellum. Second Edition, considered the first complete edition..

The second edition, significantly expanded from the first edition of 1555, of the first bi-lingual dictionary of Spanish and Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and the first dictionary printed in the Americas. It is considered the first published systematic approach to an indigenous language, and it is still in print, considered an indispensable tool for students of Classical Nahuatl language. Sabin, describing the book in the 19th century, writes, "This second and enlarged edition is so scarce that forty years ago Lord Kingsborough paid 50 guineas for it. The Buyer should be careful to secure a copy with title-pages to both parts, for sometimes the first title-page being deficient the enterprise of a dealer induces him to put the second in its place, as it reads nearly the same; the woodcut however, represents San Francisco, and differs from the escutcheon on the first title. Rich and other bibliographers erroneously supposed that this was the first book printed in America."  Sabin 49867; Church 116; Palau 174352; Wagner 60.