Live auction - Lot 665
[Spain - Portugal]
Les Délices de l'Espagne & du Portugal [...].
Leiden, P. van der Aa, 1707
€ 1.000 / 1.500
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Lot description
5 pts in 3 vol. 12mo: [28]-216, [4]-217/392, [4]-393/688, [4]-689/817 (i.e. 816), [4]-817/958-[74] pp.; 162 pl. (sl. foxing, some sm. tears, marginal lacks of paper without loss of text on first lvs in 2 vols, waterstain in 1 vol., front. of pt. 4 loose, occ. black pencil underlinings).
Contemp. vellum, ms. title on spines (sl. soiled, 1 title partly erased, traces of mss annotations).
First edition of this chorographic book. The illustration seems complete with 5 front., 1 dedication pl. and 156 pl., all on double pp. (except 5 on single p. and 14 folding of which 13 in smaller format), showing views and maps of cities, fortified places, monuments, costumes, picturesque scenes as e.g. bullfighting in Lisbon, "Punition des cocus volontaires" in Seville, scenes depicting the Inquisition... Uncommon. Ref. Brunet I:205.