Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 198

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REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA. Diccionario de la Lengua Española. Engraved allegorical plate in Volume 1. [8], lxxxxvi, 723, [1]; [12], 714; [12], 816; [12], 696; [12], 656; [36], 578 pages. 6 volumes. Folio, 337x241 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine titles in ink and remnants of thong catches and clasps, vertical cracks at top of Volume 1 spine, front hinge split, 2 holes in Volume 5 rear cover; worming in blank gutters at beginning and small repaired hole through 3G3-4 in Volume 1, wormtrails through second half of Volume 3 with varying text loss, marginal dampstaining throughout Volumes 5 and 6 with traces of mold at beginning and end. Signatures of Enrique Juan Palacios and indistinct earlier stamp on titles; booklabels of Carlos María Molina on pastedowns. Madrid: Imprenta de la Real Academia Española for heirs of Francisco del Hierro, 1726-39

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first edition of the first attempt at an authoritative dictionary of Castilian Spanish. Palau 1286.