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MORE, Thomas (1478-1535). Utopia ... traducida de Latin en Castellano por don Geronimo Antonio de Medinilla i Porres. Cordoba: Salvador de Cea Tesa, 1637.
Rare first edition in Spanish of Thomas More’s Utopia. A ground-breaking vision of an ideal island commonwealth, Utopia was written in Latin in 1515-16 and first published in Louvain (1516). It was influenced by Plato's Republic, St Augustine's De civitate Dei, Vespucci's accounts of the New World, and Erasmus's Institutio principis Christiani. 10 examples in Spanish libraries, RBH traces just two other copies of this edition at auction. Palau XX, 300427; not in Goldsmith.
Octavo (139 x 90mm). Woodcut initials and ornaments (a few leaves with small marginal repairs, some with letters supplied in manuscript). Red morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1952, supralibros on sides, gilt edges; modern cloth slipcase. Provenance: Pedro Padilla (his 19th-century note in Spanish, lending the book to 'Dr. J[ose]ph', with Joseph's note of return on verso, window-mounted on rear blank) — Pau Font de Rubinat (1860-1948, politician and bibliophile), his gift to: — Joseph Pin y Soler (1842-1927, dramatist who published the first translation of Utopia into Catalan in 1912; two notes on another end blank, one by Pin y Soler dated December 1912, apologising for not returning the book sooner, another by Font de Rubinat dated January 1913, insisting Pin y Soler keep the book as it had been of such help in his translation; names of correspondents supplied in a third hand).
Rare first edition in Spanish of Thomas More’s Utopia. A ground-breaking vision of an ideal island commonwealth, Utopia was written in Latin in 1515-16 and first published in Louvain (1516). It was influenced by Plato's Republic, St Augustine's De civitate Dei, Vespucci's accounts of the New World, and Erasmus's Institutio principis Christiani. 10 examples in Spanish libraries, RBH traces just two other copies of this edition at auction. Palau XX, 300427; not in Goldsmith.
Octavo (139 x 90mm). Woodcut initials and ornaments (a few leaves with small marginal repairs, some with letters supplied in manuscript). Red morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1952, supralibros on sides, gilt edges; modern cloth slipcase. Provenance: Pedro Padilla (his 19th-century note in Spanish, lending the book to 'Dr. J[ose]ph', with Joseph's note of return on verso, window-mounted on rear blank) — Pau Font de Rubinat (1860-1948, politician and bibliophile), his gift to: — Joseph Pin y Soler (1842-1927, dramatist who published the first translation of Utopia into Catalan in 1912; two notes on another end blank, one by Pin y Soler dated December 1912, apologising for not returning the book sooner, another by Font de Rubinat dated January 1913, insisting Pin y Soler keep the book as it had been of such help in his translation; names of correspondents supplied in a third hand).
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