[QUIROS] Hechos de Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoça, marques de Cañete :

A$62,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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A don Ivan Andres Hurtado de Mendoça su hijo, marques de Cañete, Señor de las Villas de Argete y su partido, Montero mayor del Rey nuestro señor, Guarda mayor de la ciudad de Cuenca, etta / por el doctor Christoval Suarez de Figueroa. En Madrid : en la Imprenta Real, Año 1616. Second issue of the first edition, the much rarer issue with elaborately engraved title-page and revised dedication to Juan Andrés Hurtado de Mendoça. Small quarto, later half calf (late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century) over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt ornament and contrasting red leather title label lettered in gilt (slight loss at head and tail); marbled endpapers; [8] preliminary leaves, comprising engraved title leaf signed Corn. Boel (Cornelis Bol), with portrait of Mendoza and coat of arms, armour and weaponry, old inscription erased, inserted on stub (as issued); leaf [2] Tassa, Suma del Privilegio, Erratas, signed by F. Alonso Remon, Aprovacion signed by Anonio de Herrera; leaf [3] dedication by the author to Juan Andrés Hurtado de Mendoça and first part of address to the reader by Don Gabriel Caruajal de Ulloa, inserted on stub (as issued); leaf [4] last part of Ulloa s address and statement of Andres de Prada; leaves [5-8] Prologo ; pp. 248, 245-324 (misnumbered, as in other copies of both the 1613 and 1616 issues, which are bound from the same sheets; the collation of the present copy accords with that of the copy in the Alessandrina Library, Rome, digitised in December 20

• Binding: Hardcover

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