Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 960
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
TORIO DE LA RIVA Y HERRERO, TORQUATO. Arte de Escribir por Reglas y con Muestras. Engraved portrait of the author and 58 engraved plates of calligraphic alphabets and writing specimens. [4], xxviii, 418, [1] pages, including engraved additional title. Folio, contemporary sheep with morocco lettering piece, spine heavily worn, chipped at top; conspicuous dampstaining in upper margins through most of volume with scattered traces of mold, paper corrosion along top edge of opening leaves, most plates dampstained in upper inner corners, some also browned. Madrid: widow of Joaquín Ibarra, 1798
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first edition. Bonacini 1890; Cotarelo y Mori II, 278; Harvard/Becker 147; Marzoli 71; Palau 334355.