PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). De los remedios contra prospa e advesa fortuna, translated by Francisco de Madrid. Seville: Joan de Salamanca, 1524. 2° (255 x 190mm). Black letter. Title printed in red within a woodcut border, woodcut arms of dedicatee Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba ['El Gran Capitan'] on verso of final blank. (Title and the first few leaves with top margin renewed with some letters neatly supplied in pen and ink, the last leaf repaired in the margins with a small area of the border in pen and ink, a few marginal repairs, a few tears neatly repaired reaching into the text, some headlines just shaved by the binder.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1946, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, edges and turn-ins. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941.
PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). De los remedios contra prospa e advesa fortuna, translated by Francisco de Madrid. Seville: Joan de Salamanca, 1524. 2° (255 x 190mm). Black letter. Title printed in red within a woodcut border, woodcut arms of dedicatee Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba ['El Gran Capitan'] on verso of final blank. (Title and the first few leaves with top margin renewed with some letters neatly supplied in pen and ink, the last leaf repaired in the margins with a small area of the border in pen and ink, a few marginal repairs, a few tears neatly repaired reaching into the text, some headlines just shaved by the binder.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1946, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, edges and turn-ins. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941.

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PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). De los remedios contra prospa e advesa fortuna, translated by Francisco de Madrid. Seville: Joan de Salamanca, 1524. 2° (255 x 190mm). Black letter. Title printed in red within a woodcut border, woodcut arms of dedicatee Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba ['El Gran Capitan'] on verso of final blank. (Title and the first few leaves with top margin renewed with some letters neatly supplied in pen and ink, the last leaf repaired in the margins with a small area of the border in pen and ink, a few marginal repairs, a few tears neatly repaired reaching into the text, some headlines just shaved by the binder.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1946, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, edges and turn-ins. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941.

Sixth edition of Francisco de Madrid's Castilian translation. Worldcat locates just four copies. Salvá II, 3974; Palau XIII, 224251.

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