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MARES, VICENTE. La Fenix Troyana . . . Breve Resumen de la Población del Universo. Astrological charts for the 6 days of Creation on page 10. [20], 360, [40] pages. Folio, 291x200 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, thong catches, and one thong clasp (of 2), cover edges partly worn through, recased with endpapers renewed; intermittent marginal dampstaining and foxing, worming in blank lower inner corners through much of volume, diagonal clean tear in preliminary a4, few index leaves repaired in blank lower margin. Signature of Thomás López Escudero. Valencia: Mateo Penén, 1681
first edition of a book on the global dispersion of the descendants of biblical figures, describing the regions they came to inhabit, with an account of the New World on pages 67-69. The author devotes particular attention to the Kingdom of Valencia and to the Valencian town of Chelva, his birthplace, supposedly founded by Trojans near what he considered the probable site of the Garden of Eden. Palau 151469; not in Alden.
