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(GÓNGORA Y ARGOTE, LUIS DE.) Pellicer de Osau Salas y Tovar, José. Lecciones Solemnes a las Obras de Don Luis de Góngora y Argote. [23] (of [25]) leaves, 836 columns, [12] leaves, including engraved portrait of the author, with leaves in first preliminary gathering bound out of order; lacks portrait of Góngora and final preliminary leaf with note to readers. 4to, 197x144 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, soiled and worn, lacking ties; occasional toning, some passages of text inked out, dark marginal stains toward beginning and at end, preliminary 3†2 loose. Madrid: Imprenta del Reino for Pedro Coello, 1630
first edition of a commentary on Gongora's Polifemo, Soledades, Panegirico, and Piramo y Tisbe. Palau 216700.with the signed inscription of carlos de sigüenza y góngora on title verso, noting that this copy was expurgated by order of the Mexican Inquisition. Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) was royal cosmographer of New Spain, professor of astrology and mathematics at the University of Mexico, and the first important Mexican scientist. See DSB XII, 431.
