![CORDERO, Juan Martin. Las Quexas y llanto de Pompeyo [etc.]. Antwerp: Martin Nucio, 1556. 8° (142 x 88mm). Engraved printer's device, historiated initials. (Repair to bottom margin of every leaf, occasionally touching the catchword when some letters are supplied in manuscript.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from José Sala Nadal, 1952, and rebound.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08358_0066_000(cordero_juan_martin_las_quexas_y_llanto_de_pompeyo_etc_antwerp_martin092736).jpg?w=1)
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CORDERO, Juan Martin. Las Quexas y llanto de Pompeyo [etc.]. Antwerp: Martin Nucio, 1556. 8° (142 x 88mm). Engraved printer's device, historiated initials. (Repair to bottom margin of every leaf, occasionally touching the catchword when some letters are supplied in manuscript.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from José Sala Nadal, 1952, and rebound.
FIRST EDITION of this compilation. In addition to the translation of Soltani Solymani horrendum fascinus, a work by Nicolas de Moffan, it includes translations of De morte declamatio and Oratio de virtute complectenda by Erasmus, and Cordero's own work, La manera de escrivir en castellano. On-line ABPC only records one sale, the Peeters-Fontainas copy in modern calf for £300 in 1978. Peeters-Fontainas 274; Palau VIII, 153872.
FIRST EDITION of this compilation. In addition to the translation of Soltani Solymani horrendum fascinus, a work by Nicolas de Moffan, it includes translations of De morte declamatio and Oratio de virtute complectenda by Erasmus, and Cordero's own work, La manera de escrivir en castellano. On-line ABPC only records one sale, the Peeters-Fontainas copy in modern calf for £300 in 1978. Peeters-Fontainas 274; Palau VIII, 153872.