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MARTI Y VILADAMOR, Francisco. Noticia Universal de Cataluña. [Barcelona, ?1640]. 4° (189 x 140mm). Woodcut portraits on I4v of SS. Eulalia and Madrona. (A little discolouration). 20th-century silk binding, labels on spine, arms of different colours of morocco on sides, gilt edges. Provenance: bought from José Porter, 1957. A paean on his native country by the author and a lamentation about the treatment which Catalonia receives from Castile. Palau VIII, 153499.
Aristarco o censura de la proclamacion de los Catalanes. [Madrid: 1640]. 4° (199 x 137mm). (Worming to a greater or lesser extent occasionally touches a line-border or catchword, a few light stains). Old-fashioned olive-green morocco by Miquel Rius, gilt spine, large gilt ornament on sides within 2 borders à la Du Seuil, the inner one with decorative cornerpieces, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: bought from José Porter, 1957. Apparently the only edition of this little book, attributed to the inquisitor Francisco de Rioja, royal historiographer, in which he accuses the writer of the original Proclamation of ignorance and especially ignorance of Latin and even his own history. At the end he concludes by calling all Catalans, traitors, bearers of false witness, hypocrites and assassins. Palau I, 16646.
And Pedra de Toch's Secrets publichs, de les intencions del enemich, y llum de la veritat. Barcelona[?]: 1641. (3)
Aristarco o censura de la proclamacion de los Catalanes. [Madrid: 1640]. 4° (199 x 137mm). (Worming to a greater or lesser extent occasionally touches a line-border or catchword, a few light stains). Old-fashioned olive-green morocco by Miquel Rius, gilt spine, large gilt ornament on sides within 2 borders à la Du Seuil, the inner one with decorative cornerpieces, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: bought from José Porter, 1957. Apparently the only edition of this little book, attributed to the inquisitor Francisco de Rioja, royal historiographer, in which he accuses the writer of the original Proclamation of ignorance and especially ignorance of Latin and even his own history. At the end he concludes by calling all Catalans, traitors, bearers of false witness, hypocrites and assassins. Palau I, 16646.
And Pedra de Toch's Secrets publichs, de les intencions del enemich, y llum de la veritat. Barcelona[?]: 1641. (3)