Lot n° 1131

Spain - ships - GUEVARA, Antonio de, O.F.M. - Les epistres dorees, et discours salutaires (...) traduictes d’Espaignol en François par le Seigneur de Guterey (...). Ensemble la reuolte, que les Espaignolz firent contre leur ieune Prince, l’An...

Estimation : 400 / 400
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
M.D.XX. et l’yssue d’icelle. Auec un traicté des trauaux & priuileges des galeres.
Antwerp, M. Nutius, 1591
8vo, old gilt sheep (rubbed), gilt flat spine (head and tail def.) with red label, blue sp. edges, marbl. endpapers, 299-[1]-256-215-[1] pp. (cut short occ., 2 or 3 sl. shaving marginalia, paper age-toned, some ff. spotted). Good compl. copy. Rare Antwerp ed. of the French trsl. by the French physician Jean de Guterry (d. 1581) of a major work of the Spanish chronicler A. de Guevara (1481-1545). Pt. 2 deals with the Revolt of the Comuneros (1520) against Charles V, pt. 3 the “Arte del marear y de los inventores de ella” (1539) about life on ships (e.g. one of the earliest accounts of seasickness). Title within border of type ornaments. Printed in 2 cols. Old bookpl. François Grognard.
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