Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1st January 1885
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    27269 27270 27276 27277 CASTILIAN LITERATURE. | 2679 muy sabia Sybilla, folio, trr. Gorn. vellum, £52. 10s Sevilla, Juan Varela de Salamanca, 1527 An EXCEEDINGLY RARE EDITION, APPARENTLY UNKNOWN TO BIBLIO- GRAPHERS. It is not in Salva, Brunet, nor the Supplement to the Manuel. It is probably the first edition of the Spanish translation, unless the citation of an edition, Seville 1512, in the Catalogue of the Colombine Library be correct, It is printed in double columns, having 48 lines to a full page. The title is in red and black, with woodcut representation of a tournament, which, with the table and prologue, occupy 4 Il.; the text has cxviii ll., the last erroneously paged exxviil. It is a sound and perfect copy. folio, black letter, sheet O wanting, otherwise fine copy in calf, from the Sunderland library, £10. Sevilla, A. de Burgos, 1548 Also EXCESSIVELY RARE, unknown to Salva, and only briefly cited by Brunet on the authority of Sobolewski. It is more fully described by Brunet’s continuators, without, however, any quotation of its occurrence in the market. The only copy of which I can find any trace is that of Lord Stuart de Rothe- say, which fetched £23. 10s at Sotheby’s in 1855. The translation into Spanish is stated in the prologue to both editions to have been made by “ Alonso Hernandez, Aleman, Vezino de Sevilla.” Guptet (G.) Compendio de algunas Historias de Espana y especial- mente de la Familia de los Grronzs y de otros muchos Linajes, folio, numerous pedigrees, calf, 28s Alcala, 1577 [GUEVARA (Antonio de)] Marco Aurelio cd el Relox de Principes, folio, in good condition, old calf, RARE, £3. Sevilla, Juan Cromberger, 1537 Libro aureo de Marco Aurelio, 12mo. calf, 30s Hnveres, 1545 RaRE early editions of Guevara’s celebrated philosophical romance. Not mentioned by the bliographers. Libro Namado Monte Catvario, sm. folio, gothic letter, 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, the last leaf (142) in the first vol. wanting, old calf, lds Valladolid, 1551-49-50 The great rarity of this volume is shown by the fact that it was not in the fine Salva collection. Hpistolas Familiares: en las quales ay exposiciones de Figuras, Authoridades, Medallas, Letreros, Hpitaphios, Leyes, y Costumbres antiguas, etc. 2 vols. in 1, thick 12mo. morocco gilt, 20s Anveres, 1603 —— Oratorio de Religiosos y Exercicio de Virtuosos, 12mo. vellum, 5s Anvers, Ph. Nucio, 1569 Guevara (Pedro de) Arte general para todas las sciencias, en dos instrumentos, recopilada del Arte magna y Arbor Scientia del Doctor Raymundo Lull, second and best edituon—Breve y sumaria declaracion de la Arte general, 2 works in 1 vol. 12mo. calf, 15s Madrid, 1586 The former work has 86 leaves (the last misnumbered 76) not 76 as Salva states. GurvaraA—see VeLez de Guevara. GUTIERREZ DE Los Rios, Noticia general para la estimacion de las artes y de la manera en que se conocen las liberales de las que son mecanicas y serviles, sm. 4to. hj. calf, 10s Madrid, 1600 the same, sm. 4to. large copy in old calf gilt, from the Sunderland librar y, 258 600