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VILLEGAS, Esteban Manuel de (1589-1669). Las eroticas o amatorias. Najera: Juan de Mongaston, 1618-17. 2 parts, 4° (175 x 120m). Engraved title. (Repaired tears in H4, H5, Q8 and R4-6, all affecting text, large restored area in second leaf without loss to colophon.) Black morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1940. Provenance: Fernandez (faded signature on title) -- Antonio Creus, 1937.
FIRST EDITION of this collection of amatory verse. Part one contains translations of Horace and Anacreon, the two figures in the engraved title, and also Catullus and Tibullus. Part 2 consists of elegies, idylls, sonnets and 'Latinas' in the style of Petrarch, and is introduced by its own letterpress title. From the first press at Najera, a small town in Castile, where printing began in 1615. Palau XXVII, 369312.
FIRST EDITION of this collection of amatory verse. Part one contains translations of Horace and Anacreon, the two figures in the engraved title, and also Catullus and Tibullus. Part 2 consists of elegies, idylls, sonnets and 'Latinas' in the style of Petrarch, and is introduced by its own letterpress title. From the first press at Najera, a small town in Castile, where printing began in 1615. Palau XXVII, 369312.