Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Morales, Viaje, Madrid, 1765, nineteenth-century calf

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800 - 1,200 GBP

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MORALES, AMBROSIO DE. Viage por orden del Rey D. Phelipe II. A los reynos de Leon, y Galicia, y principado de Asturias. Para reconocer las reliquias de Santos, sepulcros reales, y libros manuscritos de las cathedrales, y monasterios. Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1765


FIRST EDITION, ANTHONY HOBSON'S COPY of a rare work describing Morales' travels through the regions of Galicia, Asturias, Valladolid and León.


Morales (1513-1591) was Historiographer Royal, commissioned by Philip II in 1572 to report on historical materials (manuscripts and relics of saints) to be found in the north (Asturias and Leon). He discovered among others the works of Eulogius of Cordoba (died 859), which he published (Alcalá 1574) from the sole manuscript, subsequently lost. According to a Libri sale catalogue (1861, lot 4965) the Viage "contains the descriptions of several hundred ancient manuscripts now lost". It is also of interest to scholars studying objects once situated in churches in the region. Two facsimile edition (1977, 1985) and publication of the author's manuscript (2012) attest to the work's enduring utility.

Folio (284 x 197 mm). Roman and some italic type, 37 lines plus headline. collation: *2 ¶-4¶4 A-2E4: 129 leaves (of 130, lacking preliminary blank). Title-page with woodcut device, engraved frontispiece portrait, woodcut head-pieces and initials.


binding: Nineteenth-century calf (290 x 208 mm), spine with 6 raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece to second compartment, red edges, marbled endpapers. (Evidence of a second morocco lettering piece to third compartment, extremities rubbed.)


provenance: Vincente Salva (1786-1849), London-based Valencian bibliographer and bookseller, nineteenth-century bookseller's label—Andrés Oseguera, ownership inscriptions on verso of front free endpaper and title-page (the former dated "Paris... 1849")—St Aloysius Jesuits, inkstamp on verso of front free endpaper—partly legible inkstamp of "St Genevieve..." on title-page—Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), eminent book historian and long-serving Sotheby's Director, bookplate—Christie's South Kensington, 9 June 2015, lot 188. references: Palau 180634

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