Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 342

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1646.) Thomas Gonzalez. Explicacion de las syllabas sobre el Libro Quinto de Antonio de Nebrija. [1], 41, [1] leaves. 8vo, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; leaf 25 defective with slight loss, coming disbound, moderate wear, bound with 2 other tracts by Gonzalez (both incomplete). Mexico: Juan Ruiz, [1646 per colophon]

Additional Details

First edition. Not traced at auction, not in Medina (see Medina, Mexico 750 for the 1653 second edition). One in OCLC (Biblioteca Nacional de España). Bound at the end of a sammelband with:

["De arte rhetorica, libri tres."] [6 of 7], 55 leaves; lacking title page, with title of the second work improperly bound at front. Medina, Mexico 627. [Mexico: Juan Ruiz, 1646.]

"Summa totius rhetoricae." [1], 23 leaves (quite erratically paginated but apparently lacking 5 leaves, title page bound at front of the volume as noted). Medina, Mexico 628. Mexico: viuda de Bernardo Calderón, 1646.