Lot 72
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ESPINOSA, Juan (c.1518-1595). Dialogo en laude de las mugeres. Intitulado Ginaecepaenos.. Milan: Michele Tini, 1580. 4° (195 x 143mm). Full-page woodcut portrait of the author within architectural border, historiated woodcut initials. (Without final blank, a few small light stains, occasional light soiling.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1946, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from Antigua Librería Babra, 1937.
ESPINOSA, Juan (c.1518-1595). Dialogo en laude de las mugeres. Intitulado Ginaecepaenos.. Milan: Michele Tini, 1580. 4° (195 x 143mm). Full-page woodcut portrait of the author within architectural border, historiated woodcut initials. (Without final blank, a few small light stains, occasional light soiling.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1946, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from Antigua Librería Babra, 1937.

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ESPINOSA, Juan (c.1518-1595). Dialogo en laude de las mugeres. Intitulado Ginaecepaenos.. Milan: Michele Tini, 1580. 4° (195 x 143mm). Full-page woodcut portrait of the author within architectural border, historiated woodcut initials. (Without final blank, a few small light stains, occasional light soiling.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1946, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from Antigua Librería Babra, 1937.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this rarely encountered work in praise of women. The author was gentleman-in-waiting to Charles V, and dedicated his work to the Emperor's daughter. Only one sale recorded on AE in 1952. Maggs cat. 495, no. 347a; Salvá II, 1797: 'mui raro'; Palau V, 82723.

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