Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 2,080
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
APPIANUS of Alexandria. Los Triumphos de Apiano. Spanish translation by Juan de Molina. Title in red and black with woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Marqués Rodrigo de Mendoza; woodcut border on first page of dedication, another on colophon page with printer's mermaid device at top. [12], 143 [i. e., 145] leaves; lacks final blank. Folio, 281x182 mm, 19th-century 3/4 morocco gilt, raised bands, cover edges and corners worn; title lightly soiled and reinforced in blank lower outer corner on verso, blank lower outer corner of +3 and L8 restored, dampstain in outer margin of +4, partial dampstaining on D3.6 marginalia imperfectly washed out of lower margin of A2, K4, and M4, small ink stains on O2. Bookplate of the Mexican historian and bibliographer Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1824-94). (Valencia: Juan Joffre, 20 August 1522)

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first edition in spanish of Appian's history of Roman wars and conquests. Hoffmann I, 220; Palau 13810.