Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 11,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(MANUSCRIPT.) Alciato, Andrea. Emblemas [spine title]. manuscript in spanish on paper, written in neat italic hand in brownish-black ink, and illustrated with 211 mounted woodcut emblems excised from a printed (Plantin?) edition. 109 leaves, with complete text though without title or preliminary matter; interleaved. 149x101 mm, late 18th-century 1/4 sheep gilt, spine worn, front hinge cracked, cords intact; first leaf soiled with repair in blank outer margin, contents otherwise relatively clean but with narrow horizontal crack or hole toward top of woodcuts on leaves 33-42, slightly affecting images. Np, late 16th-early 17th century?

Additional Details

Unpublished Spanish version of Andrea Alciato's 1531 Emblemata, the first and most frequently reprinted emblem book. The text differs substantially from the first Spanish translation by Bernardino Daza published in 1549, and the emblems follow the order established in the 1573 Plantin edition of the Latin text edited by Claude Mignault rather than that of the Daza edition. Formerly in the collection of the Cervantes scholar Karl-Ludwig Selig (1926-2012), acquired by him from Diana Parikian; see his "A Spanish Translation of Alciato's Emblemata," Romanische Forschungen, Volume 82, Number 4 (1970), page 584.