Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MALVENDA [or MALUENDA], TOMÁS. De antichristo tomus primus [secundus]. [12], 603, [13]; [8], 246 [i. e., 346], [10] pages. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 18th-century 1/2 vellum; some browning and dampstaining. Lyon: (Jacques du Creux for) Societas Bibliopolarum, 1647

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Massive eschatological treatise first published in 1604 in Rome. Pages 268-83 of the first volume contain a discussion of Columbus's discovery of the New World and the possibility of America having been settled by one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Alden 647/96; Palau 147984.