Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DU VAL, MICHAEL. Rosa Hispani-Anglica, seu Malum Punicum Angl'Hispanicum. English text apart from preliminary verses in Latin and Spanish. [34], 96 pages, including engraved title and preceding leaf of explanatory text. 4to, 212x160 mm, early 19th-century red straight-grain morocco gilt, spine darkened, reinforced at top, ends rubbed, front joint worn in a few places; margins trimmed just entering bottom line of title, faint dampstain in lower outer corners toward beginning. 19th-century armorial bookplate of John Broadley. [London : Eliot's Court Press, 1622?]

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Extravagantly written defense of the controversial projected marriage between Prince Charles I of England and the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, which ultimately failed to take place. STC 7376.