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Regla, y establecimientos, de la orden y cavalleria, del gloriosso apostol santiago patron de las spañas, con la historia del origen y principio deela
by [RUIZ DE VERGARA ÃLAVA, Francisco]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[Madrid]: [Domingo Garcia Morras], 1655. [13], 204, 211-216, 205-210, 217-220ff, [18]. Partially misbound. With an engraved pictorial title page and two further engraved plates by Pedro de Villafranca Malagón. Later vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities rubbed, marked, and discoloured. Chipping to head of title page, small neat paper repair to verso, very occasional manuscript annotations in an early Spanish hand. The first edition of Francisco Ruiz de Vergara Ãlava's survey of Spanish orders of knighthood and chivalry. The exceptionally baroque allegorical title page, representing the Apostle Saint James hewing down Saracens, and the two plates (depicting Philip IV and the immaculate conception respectively) are the work of Pedro de Villafranca Malagón (c. 1615-1684), Madrid-based painter and printmaker and sometime engraver-in-ordinary to Philip IV. Such was the impact of the title page illustration, it was repurposed in 1719 for Aguado de Cordova's Bullarium equestris ordinis. . First edition. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ25847
- Title
- Regla, y establecimientos, de la orden y cavalleria, del gloriosso apostol santiago patron de las spañas, con la historia del origen y principio deela
- Author
- [RUIZ DE VERGARA ÁLAVA, Francisco]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [Domingo Garcia Morras]
- Place of Publication
- [Madrid]
- Date Published
- 1655
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- History
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Wareham, Dorset
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