HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS, Juan de (fl. 1589-1608). Paradoxas christianas contra las falsas opiniones del mundo. Segovia: Marcos de Ortega, 1592. 4° (189 x 140mm). Woodcut device on title and repeated within text, text within border, woodcut initials. (Without final blank, occasional light staining, a few small creases.) Burgundy morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1945. FIRST EDITION of this ascetic work by Covarrubias. Maggs cat. 495, no. 471; Palau 116240.

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HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS, Juan de (fl. 1589-1608). Paradoxas christianas contra las falsas opiniones del mundo. Segovia: Marcos de Ortega, 1592. 4° (189 x 140mm). Woodcut device on title and repeated within text, text within border, woodcut initials. (Without final blank, occasional light staining, a few small creases.) Burgundy morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1945. FIRST EDITION of this ascetic work by Covarrubias. Maggs cat. 495, no. 471; Palau 116240.

SAVONAROLA, Girolamo (1452-1498). Triompho della croce di Christo, della verita della fide christiana. [Bound as issued with:] Opera della semplicita della vita christiana. Venice: al segno della speranza, 1547. 2 works in one volume, 8° (153 x 105mm). Woodcut title vignettes and historiated woodcut initials. (Final leaf of second work browned.) Disbound. Two well-known books by Savonarola, first printed in Latin at the end of the 15th century. Brunet V, 161 & 164; not in BL/STC Italian.

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