Author: PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de.-
Title: Luz a los vivos, y escarmiento en los mvertos. Por El Illustrissimo, y reverendissimo Señor Don Iuã de Palafox y Mendoza, Obispo de Osma, del Consejo del Rey N. Señor.
Description: Madrid, Por Maria de Quiñones. A costa de Iuan de Valdès, Mercader de Libros, en la calle de Atocha, enfrente Santo Tomas, 1661. folio. [22 x 30 cm.]. W. 1 full page engr. portr. [preceding leaf A1r, signed 'Peters a Villafranca sculptor regius, delineavit et sculpsit Matriti 1659']. A number of fine woodc. head- and tailpieces. A woodc. textill. on K1r [p. 79].In contemp. full spanish limp vellum, wrinkled as usual. Some stains. Ties present. [¶6, ¶¶6, ¶¶¶6 [3¶ signed 2¶] - 5¶6, X1, (portrait), A6, B5, C6 - Z6, Aa6 - Zz6, Aaa3]. (XC, 460, (X), 461 - 517, (III) pp.). (Acceptable copy, but towards the end some 20 lvs., w. light mildew, righthand blank margins restored and remargined w. japan paper; some loss of text.; Throughout the volume [pp. 19 - 289] lower blank margin and sometimes upwards to mid center of page, a visible greasy brown stain.). (Half title w. owner's inscr. in ink '...Diego Vidaurre de Ordunas'[?]' Mediocre copy, hence the price. First edition. Palau vol. XII, item 209775: Medina [Bibl. Hispano Americana], vol. III, item 1331: Not in STCSpanish 1601 - 1700: John Carter Brown, NUC 1 copy:

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