Historia de las Islas Philipinas

by Joaquín Martínez de Zuñiga

$11,500 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy bound in later treed calf, boards decorated in gilt, spine gilt and with contrasting lettering piece, with a name label stamped in gilt ‘Al. Malavois’ at foot of spine. Printed on Chinese laid paper rice paper ; historiated initial, tail-piece. Internally very fresh and clean with just two tiny wormholes not affecting text to the blank margin of the first three leaves. Extremely rare. I have traced 2 copies

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