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TARAFA, FRANCISCO. De origine, ac rebus gestis Regum Hispaniae liber. Woodcut portrait of the author on title, full-page arms of Philip II of Spain on verso. 201, [23] pages. 8vo, 159x100 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard with author and title written in humanistic hand on front cover, contrasting linen ties; contents clean. Antwerp: Jan Laet for Jan Steels, 1553
scarce first edition of a chronicle of the rulers of Spain from Tubal, son of Noah, to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. New World discoveries are referred to on pages 182 and 196; the persecution of Jews in Catalonia during the reign of John I of Castile is described on page 183. Alden 553/48; Palau 327552. From the library of the Fugger banking library of Augsburg, in a characteristic binding with later shelf mark on front free endpaper.
