Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
FLORES, JUAN DE. Historia in lingua castigliana composta, et da M. Lelio Aletiphilo [pseud.] in parlare italico tradutta. Title within woodcut historiated border. [36] leaves, including final blank. Small 8vo, early 19th-century sheep-backed boards, spine rubbed, ends chipped; insignificant marginal foxing, later owner's pencil notes on front endleaf and final blank. (Venice: Marchio Sessa, 1533)

Additional Details

Fourth edition of a 1521 Italian adaptation of the popular sentimental romance Grisel y Mirabella, originally published in Spanish circa 1495, recounting the tragic love of the protagonists (here renamed Aurelio and Isabella) in an imaginary Scotland. Palau 92501.