ACOSTA, Christoval Tratado en loor de las mugeres, y de la castidad, onestidad, constancia, silencio, y iusticia: con otras muchas particularidades, y varias historias (...). 1592 Giacomo Cornetti, sm. 4to, contemp. limp vellum (sl. stained), flat...
Estimation :
1500 / 2000
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
spine (1 tear, sm. wormholes), [1]-133-[15] ff. (sl. brown. & stained throughout, wormholes, esp. on ff. Ee3-Ff4, marg. ink stain on titlep., traces of use).
Rare 1st ed. by the Portuguese doctor and natural historian Acosta (1515-1594), dedicated to Catalina d'Austria, Infante of Spain. Copper engr. titlepage. This apology of the women ("eloquentes", "sabias", "valerosas", "principio & invencion de las cosas mas necessaria a la vida humana") is based on num. antique or modern sources (cf. "Autores que se algan en esta apologia") incl. Dante, Boccaccio, Juan de Mena, Petrarch, etc. At the end, long list of women mentioned in the treatise.
Rare 1st ed. by the Portuguese doctor and natural historian Acosta (1515-1594), dedicated to Catalina d'Austria, Infante of Spain. Copper engr. titlepage. This apology of the women ("eloquentes", "sabias", "valerosas", "principio & invencion de las cosas mas necessaria a la vida humana") is based on num. antique or modern sources (cf. "Autores que se algan en esta apologia") incl. Dante, Boccaccio, Juan de Mena, Petrarch, etc. At the end, long list of women mentioned in the treatise.
