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Horozco y Covarrubias, Juan (1540-1610) Tratado de la Verdadera y Falsa Prophecia.
Segovia: Por Juan de la Cuesta, 1588.
First and only edition, quarto, woodcut printer's device to title, old ownership inscriptions in ink, bottom outside corner of title clipped; lacking final blank A8, bound in contemporary limp parchment, lacking ties, new endleaves, contents not washed or pressed; ex libris Manuel Bagvilera with bookplate; paper flaw to K1 with loss of lower blank corner, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
In this work Horozco y Covarrubias argues against the validity of what he calls false and heretic sciences, such as astrology, magic, geomancy, chiromancy, necromancy and the occult sciences, asserting instead the power of Catholic doctrine. The printer Juan de la Cuesta is famed for publishing the first edition of Don Quixote.
