Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Nava, José de; engraver. [Vida de Santa Rosa de Viterbo.] 33 plates. 4to, later 1/2 calf over marbled boards, moderate wear; lone worm hole in upper margin of first 16 plates, minor dampstaining and foxing; edges tinted yellow. [Puebla, circa 1800?]

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An illustrated life of the 13th-century Saint Rose of Viterbo, issued without title page or text leaves. This is regarded as the master work by Puebla's greatest engraver José de Nava (1735-1817). Medina, Puebla page xliv; Palau 187900. 2 in OCLC.