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JÁUREGUI Y HURTADO DE LA SAL, Juan Martínez de (1583-1641). Rimas. Seville: Francisco de Lyra Varreto, 1618. 4° (186 x 130mm). Woodcut and typographical ornaments. (Some closed tears through text and significant mends to P1, E2, 2K2-3, 2L1 and final 2 leaves, title with residual soiling and neat restoration, a few smaller repairs elsewhere, a few headlines shaved, some remaining stains.) Green morocco by Brugalla, 1945, gilt supralibros, gilt edges. Provenance: purchased from Antonio López, 1944. FIRST EDITION. Despite some creative weaknesses, the Sevillian poet and painter showed technical mastery of the 'terza rima' which he had learned in Rome, 'and a skilful evocation of the Horatian temperament' (OCSL). The work also includes his translation of Tasso's Aminta. No sale recorded in AE or on-line ABPC. Maggs cat. 495, no. 496: 'a rare book of which only a few copies are known'; Salvá I, 690: 'rara'; Palau VII, 123296; not in Goldsmith.
With 2 other 4° works: Francisco Lopez de Zarate, Obras varias. Alcala: Maria Fernandez, 1651. 19th-century roan-backed boards. Ex libris A. Canovas del Castillo. Palau VII, 142266; and Antonio de Solis y Rivadeneira, Varias poesias, sagradads y profanas. Madrid: Antonio Roman, 1692. (Title slightly soiled and repaired.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Palau XXI, 318550. (3)
With 2 other 4° works: Francisco Lopez de Zarate, Obras varias. Alcala: Maria Fernandez, 1651. 19th-century roan-backed boards. Ex libris A. Canovas del Castillo. Palau VII, 142266; and Antonio de Solis y Rivadeneira, Varias poesias, sagradads y profanas. Madrid: Antonio Roman, 1692. (Title slightly soiled and repaired.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Palau XXI, 318550. (3)