Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(MANILA--1675.) Herrera, Baltasar de. Sermones varios, predicados en esta ciudad de Manila. Woodblock illustrations on title and final page. [8], 219, [3] leaves. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn; lacking endpapers, title page lacking lower corner without loss of text, a few leaves coming loose, final 3 leaves worn without loss of text; small inked "MM" stamps on verso of title and page 52. Manila: Compañía de Jesús, 1675

Additional Details

Semons by a leading Spanish Augustinian missionary to the Philippines. "Fué de los mejores predicadores que han pasado á estas islas, de rara elocuencia, erudición y gracia en el decir"--Casimiro Díaz in Revista Agustiniana, December 1885, page 561. Medina, Manila 99 (without collation); Retana 134; Palau 114046. Not seen at auction since 1988.