Lot 261
Picaresque novel.- Alemán (Mateo) Primera parte de la vida del picaro Guzman de Alfarache, rare early edition, Brussels, Jan Mommaert & Rutger Velpius, 1600.
Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500
Description
Picaresque novel.- Alemán (Mateo) Primera parte de la vida del picaro Guzman de Alfarache, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut decorative initials and a tail-piece on M3v, spotting and staining / water-staining, browned, heavier to sig.T and a few other ff., contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, lacking ties, little chipped at foot, a few worm traces, soiled, housed in modern buckram drop-back box, [Foulche-Delbosc 12; Peeters-Fontainas 31/32; Palau I, 6676], 8vo, Brussels, Jan Mommaert & Rutger Velpius, 1600.
⁂ Rare early edition of the first and most popular picaresque novel. The first edition of the first part appeared in Madrid in 1599, and the genuine second part in Lisbon in 1604.
Description
Picaresque novel.- Alemán (Mateo) Primera parte de la vida del picaro Guzman de Alfarache, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut decorative initials and a tail-piece on M3v, spotting and staining / water-staining, browned, heavier to sig.T and a few other ff., contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, lacking ties, little chipped at foot, a few worm traces, soiled, housed in modern buckram drop-back box, [Foulche-Delbosc 12; Peeters-Fontainas 31/32; Palau I, 6676], 8vo, Brussels, Jan Mommaert & Rutger Velpius, 1600.
⁂ Rare early edition of the first and most popular picaresque novel. The first edition of the first part appeared in Madrid in 1599, and the genuine second part in Lisbon in 1604.
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