Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
February 1882
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    FICTION : BARE Les BALLADS, 797 8162 8163 8164 diversos, very fine copy in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by Simier, with the arms of Lord Stuart de Rothesay in gold on sides, EXTREMELY RARE, £12. 12s 7 2 )* Anvers, 1580 This curious and interesting volume contains 159 Romances ; among which are the Historia de los Infantes de Lara; Romance del Conde Saldanha ; XXXV Romances del Cid ; Romances del Conde Fernan Gongales ; Romances de don Sancho, Don Alfonso, Rodrigo, Pyramo y Thysbe, Ecuba y Paris, Jason, Theseo, ‘&e. &e. COLECCION DE ROMANCES VARIOS en pliegos sneltos, juntados en 2 vols. sm. 4to. a collection of 211 ballads and villancicos, most of them with woodcuts, hf. bd. £15. Sevilla, Malaga, Madrid, etc. about 1720-1820 Such a large collection of Spanish chap-books is extremely rare and interesting. The productions of the catchpenny presses of the last century are already very scarce ; as most of those gems of street-literature were soon and easily destroyed. ROMANCES, Vitnancicos, SEGUIDILLAS, RELACIONES His- TORICAS, JOCO-SERIAS, Misticas y Curtosas, Copnas Drtvyinas, etc. A collection of 124 pieces, the greater part in Spanish with some in the Vatenctan Diauect, and illustrated with curious woodcuts, composed by Juan Perez de Montalvan, Hugenio Gerardo Lobo, Juan Cabeza, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Antonio Enriquez Gomez, Juan Garcia Valeros, Augustin Moreto, Juan Bautista Diamante, Fernando Zarale, Tirso de Molina, Lucas del Olmo Alfonso, Simon de Roxas, Joseph Garcia, Juan de Olmedo, Bernardo Delos, Pedro Sanchez, Alonso de Castilla, Marcos Brizuela, and other authors—in 1 stout vol. sm. 4to. vellum, very rare and curious, £0. Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla y Salamanca, 1758-60 A Cotuxcrion of more than 200 different Popunar Romances, Satires, Comic Songs, etc. in Spanish and some in local dialects, with curious woodcuts on the title, sm. 4to. sd. £2. 5s Cordoba (Rodriguez), Valencia, Cadiz, etc. 1791-1841 A very curious collection, giving a lively picture of the intellectual state of the Spanish people at the end of the XVIII and the beginning of the XIX century. It would be very difficult to bring together another collection so complete as the above, these little tracts being seldom saved from destruction. 8165 HamAsa, die altesten arabischen Volksheder, von Abu Temmam ; Deutsch, von Riickert, 2 vols. 8vo. MoROCCO extra, gilt edges, 18s Stutt. 1846 This famous work is a collection of the popular Songs of the Arabs, previous to and for a couple of centuries after the establishment of Islamism. 54