May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Vega Carpio, Lope de (1562-1635)
La Hermosura de Angelica, Con Otras Diversas Rimas [La Dragontea].

Madrid: Por Juan de la Cuesta, 1605.

Octavo, armorial woodcut device to title, woodcut portrait of the author on ¶8 verso, repeated after the divisional title to the second part on Ii2 verso; 376 leaves, neatly washed, bound in full smooth green calf gilt-tooled spine, with the Biblioteca de Salvá device on both boards, edges stained red, ex libris Ricardo Heredia, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board; two ownership stamps of Raymond Caizergues on flyleaves; marbled paper endleaves; 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.

A laudatory sonnet by Miguel Cervantes in fourteen lines is printed on Hh7 verso, preceding La Dragontea.

Rius 387; Salva 1688; Heredia 6417; rare at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.