Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BINDING.) [Trigueros, Cándido María.] El Poeta Filósofo, o Poesías Filosóficas en Verso Pentámetro. Volume 1 (of 2), in 7 parts: [16]; [18]; [44]; [48]; [22]; [29]; [20] leaves. bound with his: Poesías de Melchor Díaz de Toledo, Poeta del Siglo XVI. [8], 91 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 195x136 mm, contemporary sheep with acid-stained sunburst design enclosing stylized face on covers, flat spine gilt-tooled to fish scale pattern with leather lettering piece and monogram YA at bottom, small imperfection in upper inner corner of front cover; marginal soiling and dark stain in lower outer corner of opening leaves of the first work, contents otherwise clean. Seville: Manuel Nicolás Vásquez, 1774-77; 1776

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first editions of the first volume of a serially published collection of philosophical poems, and a literary hoax presenting verse by Trigueros as the work of a fictitious 16th-century author.