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TERESA DE ÁVILA or JESUS, Saint (1515-1582). Conceptos del amor de dios ... sobre algunas palabras de los Cantares de Salomon. Brussels: Roger Velpio y Huberto Antonio, 1612. 8° (143 x 84mm). Woodcut title device and full-page woodblock on title verso. (Title slightly soiled and with bottom margin mended, woodblock with small blemish to border, I5-K4 with short closed tear leaving stain and causing loss of a few letters on I7r, N1 with closed tear through headline and first line of text.) blue morocco by Brugalla, 1945, gilt supralibros, gilt-lettered spine, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: bought from José Porter, 1941.
FIRST EDITION, with a critical commentary by Fr. Jerónimo Gracian de la Madre de Dios, also a Carmelite. Showing quickness of thought, wisdom and humour, it is one of the works which places St. Teresa in the front rank of Spanish prose writers. Palau calls for 189 numbered pages but there are in fact 194. Palau XIX, 299157; not in Goldsmith.
FIRST EDITION, with a critical commentary by Fr. Jerónimo Gracian de la Madre de Dios, also a Carmelite. Showing quickness of thought, wisdom and humour, it is one of the works which places St. Teresa in the front rank of Spanish prose writers. Palau calls for 189 numbered pages but there are in fact 194. Palau XIX, 299157; not in Goldsmith.