Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 305

Price Realized: $ 2,432
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MEXICO.) Casas, Gonzalo de las. [Libro intitulado] Arte de Criar la Seda. Small 8vo, later tree calf, minor wear; lacking title page, replaced with a later printed half-title, worming to preliminary leaves, first and final leaves worn with partial loss to first lines, minor dampstaining; inked stamp of noted collector Ricardo Heredia on half-title, with his bookplate on front pastedown. [Grenada: Rene Rabut, 1581]

Additional Details

first edition of a work on silk cultivation in the Yucatan. European Americana 581/11; Medina, BHA 266; Palau 47016 ("libro rarisimo"); Sabin 11290 ("excessively rare"). One copy known at auction since 1977.