Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1st September 1883
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/34
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    15159 ARGOTE pre MOLINA, Nosieza DEL ANDALUZIA, folio, numerous Jine woodcuts of Arms, with elegantly engraved crests, a very fine and large copy in old calf, from the Sunderland library, £8. 8s Sevilla, 1581 Ten prel, ll. including title ; and 348 numb. Il. The work is rare, and is regarded in Spain as the authority on the subject. Interspersed are several ancient romances which have been reprinted by Duran in his Anthologia. 15160 Berraut (Abbé) Journal du Voyage d’Hspagne, 4to. calf, 8s Paris, 1669 15161 Branca (Hieron.) Aragonensium Rerum Commentarii, folio, woodcuts of arms im the text, vellum, with autograph of H. K. Digby, 20s Cesarauguste, 1588 “Cette édition est rare.”— Brunet. ; 15162 Bonnecasss (A. de) Relation de Madrid, ou remarques sur les Moeurs de ses habitans, 12mo. pp. 48, fine copy'in old calf, very rare, £3. 15s a Cologne (a la sphére), 1665 The first edition of a tract which Aarsens de Sommersdyck reprinted with his “ Voyage d’Espagne”’ in 1666. It was so scarce that Willems had not seen it when he published les Elzevier. Although not printed by the Elzevirs, it forms a necessary annexe to collections of their press. 15163 CarBasan y Tamaso. Certificacion y Blason de Armas de la illustre Casa de CarpasaL y Tamaso, sm. folio, MS. on 27 Ul. of vellum, one full-page and three smaller painted Coats of Aris, and signatures of the Herald, Don Juan de Mendoza, velvet binding, £2. 1681 15164 CARDERERA Y SOLANO (V.) IconoagrapHia Espanona, Colleccion de Retratos, Hstatuas, Mausoleos y demas Monu- mentos ineditos de Reyes, Reinas, grandes Capitanes, Escritores, etc. desde el siglo XI hasta el XVII, con texto biografico y descriptivo en Espanol y Francés, 2 vols. royal folio, 84 fine plates, some being beautifully coloured and heightened in gold (pub. at £21, unbound), half morocco, gilt tops, wneut, £10. 10s Madrid, 1855-64 The Author, who was also the proprietor, printed but a very small edition of this grand work, the darling fruit of his constant studies, on the production of which he lavished time and money with an unsparing hand. He only sold a few copies, and the book has therefore remained unknown to the general public, although it is certainly unsurpassed, if it has ever been equalled, in the truth and beauty of its plates, and in the accuracy of its text, by any other work on the Antiquities of Spain. 15165 Casenies (H.) Arbol genealogico-historico de la Casa y Familia de los Sefiores Duques de Bournonville, sm. folio, front. port. and arms, old calf, £1. 16s Barcelona, 1680 15166 Castttto (Ll. del) Viage del Rey Felipe IV a la Frontera de Francia, small 4ito. engraved title with portrait inserted, fine copy in tree-marbled calf, by Kalthoeber, from the Beckford library, £2. 26 . Madrid, 1657 15167 Conon Truet, Advertencias al Adicionador de la historia del Padre Juan de Mariana, Madrid, 1669, 18mo. old calf, arms, in gold on sides, 5s Paris, 1671 15168 Esconano (G.) Historia DE VALENCIA, 2 vols. trtles and a few leaves mended, else fine copy in old red morocco, rich gold tooling, very rare, £2. 16s Valencia, 1610-11