Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1641.) Salas, Pedro de. Thesaurus poetarum. Woodcut on verso of second title page. 4 volumes in one. [4]; 7; [1], 52 leaves, 108; 222, [26] pages. 8vo, contemporary vellum, worn, coming disbound; lacks endpapers, moderate dampstaining and wear including slight loss of text to title page, leaf B3 in final volume defective; faint marca de fuego on bottom edge. Mexico: Francisco Robledo and Bernardo Calderon, 1641
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first mexican edition. This copy does not match Medina's apparently erroneous collation. It is bound with 4 title pages: "Thesaurus poetarum" (liber primus) printed by Robledo, followed by just 3 leaves "Epigrammata aliqua" by Tomas Gonzalez, printed by Calderon, undated, followed by 6 leaves "Solutae orationis fragmenta," printed by Calderon, followed by 52 leaves, and then the main text of the "liber Primus" in 108 pages; and "Thesaurus poetarum, liber secundus," 222 pages, followed by 13 leaves of index and errata. Medina, Mexico II: 548-9; Palau 286135; Sabin 75554. 3 in OCLC, and none others traced at auction.