Lot 253
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SUÁREZ DE SALAZAR, Juan Baptista. Grandezas y antiguedades de la isla y ciudad de Cadiz. Cadiz: Clemente Hidalgo, 1610. 4° (193 x139mm). Woodcut illustrations, one full-page, decorative initials. (Title with residual soil lines in upper and faint stain in mid page, repair to B2 with loss to two lines recto and verso, X1 with closed marginal tear, thoroughly washed and pressed.) Red morocco gilt by Balmes, 1956 (unevenly sunfaded, covers slightly bowed). Provenance: bought from José Mestre Albareda, 1952.
SUÁREZ DE SALAZAR, Juan Baptista. Grandezas y antiguedades de la isla y ciudad de Cadiz. Cadiz: Clemente Hidalgo, 1610. 4° (193 x139mm). Woodcut illustrations, one full-page, decorative initials. (Title with residual soil lines in upper and faint stain in mid page, repair to B2 with loss to two lines recto and verso, X1 with closed marginal tear, thoroughly washed and pressed.) Red morocco gilt by Balmes, 1956 (unevenly sunfaded, covers slightly bowed). Provenance: bought from José Mestre Albareda, 1952.

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SUÁREZ DE SALAZAR, Juan Baptista. Grandezas y antiguedades de la isla y ciudad de Cadiz. Cadiz: Clemente Hidalgo, 1610. 4° (193 x139mm). Woodcut illustrations, one full-page, decorative initials. (Title with residual soil lines in upper and faint stain in mid page, repair to B2 with loss to two lines recto and verso, X1 with closed marginal tear, thoroughly washed and pressed.) Red morocco gilt by Balmes, 1956 (unevenly sunfaded, covers slightly bowed). Provenance: bought from José Mestre Albareda, 1952.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this important archaeological work. Goldsmith S-971; Salva II, 3191: 'raro'; Palau XXII, 324112: 'uno de los más eruditos y profundos que en materia arqueológica se publicaron en el siglo XVII'.

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