Selvas Danicas d' El Conde Don Bernardino de Rebolledo, Señor de Yryan.

Copenhagen, Pedro Morsingio, 1655.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary limp vellum (recased, later endleaves), vertical manuscript title on spine, remains of ties, fore-edge cover extensions. Extra engraved architectural title page. Full page engraved portrait of the dedicatee. Woodcut vignette on title page. Small woodcut initials. Typographical headpieces and vignettes. Woodcut tailpiece. Waterstains in lower outer corners of first few leaves. Occasional browning, mostly very light. Overall in good to very good condition. (4 ll.), 176 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of this poetical genealogy of the Royal House of Denmark, dedicated to Queen Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. It is also a veiled attack on Protestantism. Two sonnets in Italian appear in the preliminary leaves.Don Bernardino de Rebolledo, Conde de Rebolledo, Señor de Trian, etc., was born in León (1597; died Madrid, 1676). He had a long and distinguished military career, serving in Italy, the Mediterranean, Flanders and Germany, becoming Governor and Captain General of the Lower Palatine, general of artillery, Spanish Minister to the Court of Denmark, and Minister of the Supreme Council of War, playing a prominent role on the Hapsburg side in the Thirty Years' War. He was influential in the conversion of Queen Christina of Sweden to Catholicism. With four volumes of verse to his credit in addition to his military and diplomatic activities, he was one of the most unusual Spanish poets of the mid-sixteenth century in that he took no account of Gongarism.*** Palau 252065 (calling for only 3 preliminary leaves). Jerez p. 120 (the HSA copy). HSA p. 453. Not in Gallardo. Not in Salvá or Heredia. See also Ticknor, History of Spanish Literature, II, 548-9; Ward, Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature, p. 490. Not located in CCPBE. Rebiun locates a single copy, at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Jisc repeats National Library of Scotland and British Library only.