Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. Proverbios. Latin text with Spanish translation and commentary by Pedro Díaz de Toledo. Title in red and black within woodcut border. [8], 82 leaves. Folio, 302x202 mm, contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript endleaves, small portions of backstrip missing, ties lacking, rear pastedown renewed; contents heavily dampstained with occasional browning, title chipped along edges. Mexican Jesuit ownership inscription on title; branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México on top edges. Medina del Campo: (Guillermo de Millis for) Adrian Ghemart, 1555

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Originally published in 1482, the translation by Díaz was the first Spanish version of a classical text to appear in print. Palau 307853.