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GUEVARA, Antonio de (1480?-1540). Epistolas familiares. Valladolid: Juan de Villaquiran, 1539.
The very rare first edition of Antonio de Guevara's ‘obra más perfecta’ (Palau). No copies are recorded as having sold at auction.
Folio (300 x 208mm). Title in red and black within an elaborate woodcut border, large historiated woodcut initial and other smaller initials. Modern vellum with manuscript title on spine; blue cloth chemise and slipcase (some repaired tears sometimes affecting some letters, final leaves repaired with loss in q7-q8). Provenance: early annotations.
Antonio de Guevara’s letters are often referred to as the "Golden Letters", and because of their success they were reprinted in many different editions and translated into various European languages. No copies of this first edition are recorded in ABPC or RBH, and it does not feature in most of the celebrated collections of Spanish books. Palau 110205 (‘los ejemplares perfectos son raros… los pocos ejemplares que hemos visto en comercio, aunque leves, tenían defectos’). Not in Salva.
The very rare first edition of Antonio de Guevara's ‘obra más perfecta’ (Palau). No copies are recorded as having sold at auction.
Folio (300 x 208mm). Title in red and black within an elaborate woodcut border, large historiated woodcut initial and other smaller initials. Modern vellum with manuscript title on spine; blue cloth chemise and slipcase (some repaired tears sometimes affecting some letters, final leaves repaired with loss in q7-q8). Provenance: early annotations.
Antonio de Guevara’s letters are often referred to as the "Golden Letters", and because of their success they were reprinted in many different editions and translated into various European languages. No copies of this first edition are recorded in ABPC or RBH, and it does not feature in most of the celebrated collections of Spanish books. Palau 110205 (‘los ejemplares perfectos son raros… los pocos ejemplares que hemos visto en comercio, aunque leves, tenían defectos’). Not in Salva.
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