Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Horozco y Covarrubias, Juan (1540-1610)
Emblemas Morales.

Segovia: Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.



First edition, quarto in three parts; with woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, illustrated with 100 large woodcut emblems printed within architectural borders, the first book (without illustrations) is devoted to a general discussion of the emblem, related subjects; the second and third parts are illustrated with fifty woodcut emblems each; bound in full limp parchment, some worming, 8 x 5 1/2 in.

Salva II, 2080; Palau 116236.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.