GUEVARA, Antonio de (1480?-1540). Libro aureo de la vida y cartas de Marco Aurelio. Antwerp: Martin Nucio, 1604. 12° (124 x 70mm). Title device. With final blank. (*5 with outer margin extended, *6-8 with headline cropped away, *11 with corner repair, some leaves in quires L-Q cropped close affecting final letter of each line, N1v and N2r slightly soiled.) Blue morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1941 (tightly sewn). Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941, then rebound. Foulché-Delbosc, Guevara 102; Peeters-Fontainas 571; Palau VI, 110116; not in Goldsmith.

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GUEVARA, Antonio de (1480?-1540). Libro aureo de la vida y cartas de Marco Aurelio. Antwerp: Martin Nucio, 1604. 12° (124 x 70mm). Title device. With final blank. (*5 with outer margin extended, *6-8 with headline cropped away, *11 with corner repair, some leaves in quires L-Q cropped close affecting final letter of each line, N1v and N2r slightly soiled.) Blue morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1941 (tightly sewn). Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941, then rebound. Foulché-Delbosc, Guevara 102; Peeters-Fontainas 571; Palau VI, 110116; not in Goldsmith.

With two other works by Guevara: Despertador de Cortesanos. [Antwerp]: Plantin, 1605. 12°. (Some filled wormholes, numerous closed tears to final quires, with occasional loss of letters, some supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile.) Uniformly bound with the previous volume. Salvá II, 2077: 'llena de máximas, sentencias y dichos agudos'; Palau 110308 -- Epistolas familiares. Antwerp: Juan Meurcio, 1633. 2 vols. in one, 8°. (Small repairs to title and other leaves, occasional cropping, without final leaf 3B4.) Red morocco by Brugalla. Palau VI, 110227. (3)

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