Antonio, Nicolas:

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BIBLIOTHECA HISPANA NOVA SIVE HISPANORUM SCRIPTORUM QUI AB ANNO MD. AD MDCLXXXIV. FLORUERE NOTITIA. [with:] BIBLIOTHECA HISPANA VETUS, SIVE HISPANORUM, QUI USQUAM UNQUAMVE SCRIPTO ALIQUID ... A second edition set of Antonio's massive bibliography on Spanish authors from antiquity to the late 17th century, a production that is regarded as vastly superior in quality to each work in its first edition. Somewhat confusingly, Antonio published his first bibliography on later Spanish authors; only after his death was the portion covering earlier Spanish authors discovered, written as a literary history of Spain. Bibliotheca Hispana Nova... was published first in 1672, and covered Spanish authors published from 1500 to 1684; Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus... was first published in 1696 and included authors from the time of Augustus to the year 1500."Of both parts an excellent edition was published, by order of Charles III in the original Latin, at Madrid, in 1783 and 1788, in four volumes, folio, commonly known as the 'Bibliotheca Vetus et Nova' of Nicolas Antonio; the first being enriched with notes by Perez Bayer, a learned Valencian, long the head of the Royal Library at Madrid; and the last receiving additions from Antonio's own manuscripts that bring down his notices of Spanish writers to the time of his death, in 1684. In the earlier portion, embracing the names of about thirteen hundred authors, little remains to be desired, so far as the Roman or the ecclesiastical literary histor

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