Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
PALOMARES, FRANCISCO XAVIER DE SANTIAGO. Arte Nueva de Escribir, inventada por . . . Pedro Diaz Morante, y ilustrada con Muestras Nuevas. 40 engraved plates of calligraphic specimens. [4], xxviii, 136 pages, including engraved additional title; lacks errata leaf. Folio, modern wrappers, spine cracked; blank lower outer corner of letterpress title restored, marginal restoration on c1, with fore edge trimmed, minor soiling on some plates, plate 33 wormed, probably supplied from another copy. Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1776
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first edition. "Influential text, the result of a commission to design a more efficient national script"--Harvard/Becker 141. Bonacini 1353; Berlin 5248; Cotarelo y Mori II, 145; Palau 210612, 299945.