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El Monte Vesuvio Aora La Montaña de Soma. Madrid: Juan Gonçalez, 1632.
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QUIÑONES, Juan de (1600-1650)
El Monte Vesuvio Aora La Montaña de Soma. Madrid: Juan Gonçalez, 1632.
Rare first edition of an early illustrated analysis of Mount Vesuvius’s most destructive eruption, including the first printing of an occasional poem by Lope de Vega. RareBookHub records no copies at auction.
Juan de Quinoñes, an esteemed doctor in the court of King Felipe IV, largely wrote on health conditions, but following the eruption of 1631, the deadliest in modern history, Quinoñes compiled this text on the geological impact of the volcanic activity. His work brings together contemporary manuscripts and printed sources and is supplemented by a folding illustration of the eruption engraved by Jean de la Courbes: ‘a chorographic view of the Vesuvian landscape taken from the west, where most of the space is occupied by the double cone shown in the eruptive phase. Various groups of buildings in the immediate vicinity are depicted, corresponding to the places that were overwhelmed by the lava’ (Viceconte). The text features a short collection of poems, including the first publication of a poem by renowned Spanish poet, Lope de Vega, on the subject of the eruption. Milena Viceconte, ‘The Other Hero: Viceroy Monterrey in Literary and Figurative Sources on the 1631 Eruption of Vesuvius*’, in Heroes in Dark Times. Saints and Officials Tackling Disaster (16th-17th Centuries) (M. Viceconte, G. Schiano, D. Cecere Eds.), 2023.
Quarto (219 x 154mm). Folding engraved plate by de Courbes (thumb-soiling and slight spotting, folded plate with crease tears, one with old tape repair, paper flaw in blank margin of M3 resulting in small hole). 19th century brown calf, gilt-ruled double fillet border, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed, remnants of paper spine labels). Provenance: ‘Biblioteca de filosofía y letras Madrid’ (purple ink stamps)
El Monte Vesuvio Aora La Montaña de Soma. Madrid: Juan Gonçalez, 1632.
Rare first edition of an early illustrated analysis of Mount Vesuvius’s most destructive eruption, including the first printing of an occasional poem by Lope de Vega. RareBookHub records no copies at auction.
Juan de Quinoñes, an esteemed doctor in the court of King Felipe IV, largely wrote on health conditions, but following the eruption of 1631, the deadliest in modern history, Quinoñes compiled this text on the geological impact of the volcanic activity. His work brings together contemporary manuscripts and printed sources and is supplemented by a folding illustration of the eruption engraved by Jean de la Courbes: ‘a chorographic view of the Vesuvian landscape taken from the west, where most of the space is occupied by the double cone shown in the eruptive phase. Various groups of buildings in the immediate vicinity are depicted, corresponding to the places that were overwhelmed by the lava’ (Viceconte). The text features a short collection of poems, including the first publication of a poem by renowned Spanish poet, Lope de Vega, on the subject of the eruption. Milena Viceconte, ‘The Other Hero: Viceroy Monterrey in Literary and Figurative Sources on the 1631 Eruption of Vesuvius*’, in Heroes in Dark Times. Saints and Officials Tackling Disaster (16th-17th Centuries) (M. Viceconte, G. Schiano, D. Cecere Eds.), 2023.
Quarto (219 x 154mm). Folding engraved plate by de Courbes (thumb-soiling and slight spotting, folded plate with crease tears, one with old tape repair, paper flaw in blank margin of M3 resulting in small hole). 19th century brown calf, gilt-ruled double fillet border, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed, remnants of paper spine labels). Provenance: ‘Biblioteca de filosofía y letras Madrid’ (purple ink stamps)
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