Mentioned in Gilda Cordero Fernando's memories of book hunting three decades ago.
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The first antique Filipiniana dictionary I ever owned (“Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala” by Pedro de Sanlucar, 1754) came from Ambeth Ocampo. Way back in the early ’80s, he was already collecting a lot of old Filipino books—I mean by “old” that most of them were still in Spanish—that I then wondered...
Published on September 02, 2012 23:57