Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(SCIENCE.) Suárez, Buenaventura. Lunario de un siglo . . . contiene los aspectos principales de Sol, y Luna. [16], 196 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear; minimal dampstaining, duplicate gathering Z1-4 bound in; extensive early inscriptions on front endpapers, with a few elsewhere. Barcelona: Nadal, [1752]

Additional Details

Second edition of a hundred-year lunar almanac calcuated for New World use by a Paraguian Jesuit. This copy was apparently owned by a resident of Arequipa, Peru who made notes on the adjustments needed for that latitude. Palau 323201; Sabin 93296. None of either edition known at auction since 1963.