Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Alemán, Mateo (1547-1614)
Primera Parte de Guzman de Alfarache.

Madrid: Varez de Castro, 1600.



12mo, early edition, perhaps an Italian counterfeit; woodcut initials; bound in full black morocco by Brugalla in 1941, bearing Isidoro Fernandez's gilt-tooled emblems on both boards and bookplate within, all edges gilt, purchased by Fernandez from Jose Porter and rebound (E10 with corner repair, L3 recto with ink stain, K3 torn and repaired; contents washed; some headlines cropped); 5 1/2 x 3 in.

Palau I 6675; Foulche-Debosc 18.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.