Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Ariosto, Ludovico (1474-1533) & Nicolas de Espinosa.
La Primera [-Segunda] Parte de Orlando Furioso Traduzido en Romance Castellano por Don Jeronimo de Urrea.

Antwerp: Widow of Martin Nutius, 1558 [1556].



Quarto, two parts in one volume, translated into Spanish by Urrea, with the continuation by Espinosa; woodcut printer's devices, illustrated with text woodcuts; bound in full contemporary blind-stamped English calf with blind-tooled central lozenges, in the Oxford style, lacking ties, rebacked, new pastedowns and endleaves, an attractive binding with contents fresh, early ownership inscription to title; unidentified library shelfmark label inside front board with crown and goat Case D, Shelf 3; older bookplate concealed beneath new pastedown, 9 x 6 1/2 in.

Palau 16603 & 16628; Salva II 1520 & 1527.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.