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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
Vezilla [Vecilla] Castellanos, Pedro de la (fl. circa 1586) Primera y Segunda Parte de el Leon de España.
Salamanca: Juan Fernandez, 1586.
First and only edition of this history of the city of León, famous in literature as it is one of the books featured by Cervantes in the library of Don Quixote, woodcut on title featuring a rampant crowned lion within a shield-shaped border, signature removed from head of title with loss of the leaf in the top blank margin (repaired), bound in modern nicely-executed parchment binding, final leaf blank & present, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
"Called away by this noise and uproar [the priest and the barber] went no further with the scrutinizing of those books that remained; and so it is believed that La Carolea and the Léon of Spain went to the fire unseen and unheard, along with The Deeds of the Emperor as set down by Don Luis de Avial, for these must undoubtedly have been among the works that were left, and possibly if the priest had seen them he would not have passed so severe a sentence upon them." (Don Quixote, Part I, chapter 7, trans. Putnam)
Rare at auction; Worldcat locates four copies; Salva 1052; Heredia 2127; Palau 354372; Not in Adams.
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