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GÓMEZ DE LUQUE (GONZALO)
Libro primero delos famosos hechos del principe Celidon de Iberia. Compuesto en estancias, por Gonçalo Gomez de Luque, natural de la ciudad de Cordova, FIRST EDITION, Alcala de Henares, en casa de Juan Iñiguez de Lequerica: a costa de Diego de Xaramillo, 1583

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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GÓMEZ DE LUQUE (GONZALO)

Libro primero delos famosos hechos del principe Celidon de Iberia. Compuesto en estancias, por Gonçalo Gomez de Luque, natural de la ciudad de Cordova, FIRST EDITION, large woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials, double column text, lacks colophon leaf, one or two gatherings trimmed at foot affecting signatures, small hole in P2 just affecting 2 letters, a few printing and paper flaws, red morocco by Chambolle-Duru (signed on gilt turn-in), gilt lettered spine with raised bands, g.e., preserved in dark green morocco pull-off case, gilt lettered spine [Palau 104066], 4to (196 x 143mm.), Alcala de Henares, en casa de Juan Iñiguez de Lequerica: a costa de Diego de Xaramillo, 1583

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Extremely rare Spanish chivalric romance in verse, much praised by Cervantes in his Canto de Calíope in Galatea, book 6. Although described as the first part, no further parts were published. No copies of this, the only edition, are recorded as having sold at auction in the post war period, although a copy also lacking the colophon sold at Sotheby's in 1933.

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