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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. El Libro de Proprietatibus Rerum en Romance. Spanish translation by Vicente de Burgos. Woodcut illustrations in text. [313] (of [346]) leaves; lacks the title, next 10 leaves, and last 22 leaves. Folio, 267x195 mm, later vellum boards; mostly marginal soiling, scattered stains and cropped early marginalia, clean tear in G7, worming in gutters toward end slightly affecting text; later cloth fore-edge tabs. sold as is. (Toledo: Gaspar de Ávila for Juan Tomás Fabio, 10 July 1529)
Second edition of the Spanish version first published in 1494. "A condensed encyclopedia of what was then understood by natural science . . . one of the most widely read scientific works of the Middle Ages" (Garrison-Morton), compiled in the 12th century by an English Franciscan and first published in the original Latin circa 1471. Garrison-Morton 91; Sarton II, 586-88; Palau 102874.
