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Sale 2683 - Lot 39

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Alemán, Mateo (1547-1614)
Primera Parte de Guzman de Alfarache.

Seville: En casa de Juan de Leon, 1602.

Quarto, title page printed within a border of type ornaments; full-paged woodcut portrait of the author on *8 verso; bound in full contemporary limp parchment, nicely preserved; ties lost; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Palau 6682.

Aleman met Cervantes in debtor's prison. His work was a success, although his own material circumstances never improved much. He emigrated to Mexico in 1608.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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