1397 [VALDES (Juan de)] Comentario o Declaracion familiar, y compendiosa sobre la primera Epistola di san Paulo Apostol alos Corinthios . . Compvesto por Ivan VV. pio y sincero Theologo. . En Venecia en casa de Iuan Philadelpho. M.D.LVII.

1398

1399

12mo. fine copy in calf extra, gilt edges, from the Salvá library 1557 Comentario, o Declaracion breve, y compendiosa sobre la Epistola de S. Paolo Apostol a los Romanos. . Compvesto por Ivan Valdesio pio, y sincero Theologo. . En Venecia, en casa de Iuan Philadelpho. M.D.LVI.

12mo. calf extra, gilt edges, from the Salvá library, fine copy

1556

Two volumes of excessive rarity, both bearing on the title the curious wood-
cut device of a Y, with the figure of a man toppling off the broad arm, and a
standing figure pointing to the crown which rests above the narrow arm of the
letter. The motto is "Estrecho el camino de la vida y es ancho el de la per-
dicion." The place and printer's name are considered to be pseudonymous, and
to indicate the press of Jean Crespin at Geneva (the man who printed the
original edition of Foxe's Martyrs in 1557).

THE HUNDRED AND TEN CONSIDERATIONS of Signior Iohn Valdesso..
Written in Spanish, brought out of Italy by Vergerius. . now trans-
lated out of the Italian copy into English.. Sm. 4to. in the original
calf
Oxford, Leonard Lichfield, 1638

See ante REFORMISTAS.

1400 VALDIVIELSO (Joseph de) Vida, excelencias, y mverte del gloriosissimo Patriarca, y esposo de nuestra Señora San Ioseph. . 12mo. limp vellum

1401

calf

Madrid, 1659
A sort of epic in twenty-four cantos. He calls Joseph the Viceparacleto.
Sagrario de Toledo, poema heroico. . 12mo. engraved title; old
Madrid, 1616

In twenty-five cantos.

1402 [VALERA (Cipriano de)] Tratado para confirmar los pobres cativos de
Berueria en la catolica y antigua fe... Alfin deste tratado hallareys un
enxambre de los falsos milagros y ilusiones del Demonio con que
Maria de la visitacion.. de Lisboa engaño a muy muchos ; . . con-
denada. . 1588.. En casa de Pedro Shorto. Año de 1594.
12mo. hf. bd. from the Salvá library
[London] 1594
EXTREMELY RARE. This copy is one of the British Museum duplicates, turned
out in 1769.

1403

Dos TRATADOS, el primero es del Papa v de sv avtoridad.. el
segvndo es de la Missa.. Iten, un Enxambre de los falsos Milagros . .
Segunda edicion, augmentada por el mismo Autor. En Casa de Ricardo
del Campo, año de 1599. 12mo. old calf
[London] 1599
See ante REFORMISTAS.

1404 VALERA (Diego de). Fol. 1: [L]a siguiente coronica
ylustrissima pricesa es partida en quatro partes principales
Fol. 10: the table ends on the obverse, and the reverse is
blank. Fol. 11 (which bears no signature, but is really A2
of the series of signatures): COMIENÇA LA CORONICA DE

ESPAÑA DIRIGIDA ALA MUY ALTA Z MUY EXCELENTE PRINCESSA
SERENISSIMA REYNA 7 SENNORA NUESTRA SENNORA DONNA
YSABEL REYNA DE ESPANNA . . . POR MOSEN DIEGO DE

UALERA... Colophon: . . . las istorias cronicas. . agora
. . como en socorro puestos ocurren con tan marauillosa
arte de escreuir . . restituyendonos por multiplicados
codices en conoscimiento de lo pasado presente futuro
tanto quato ingenio humano conseguir puede. por nascion
alemanos muy espertos z continuo inuentores en esta arte
de inpremir que sin error. diuina dezir se puede, de los

£

8 8

1 10

1 5

1 4

20

11

quales alemanos es vno michael dachauer de marauilloso
igenio z doctrina. muy esperto de copiosa memoria familiar
de vuestra alteza a espensa del qual z de garcia del castillo

la presente historia general en multiplicada copia. . a
hōrra de vuestro real estado. . en vuestra . . cibdad de
seuilla. fue inpresa por alonso del puerto en el año
mill a quatrocientos z ochenta z dos anos.

Small folio, gothic letter; fine and very large copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, from the Salvá library Sevilla, 1482 50 00 FIRST EDITION, EXCESSIVELY RARE. In fact no other copy than this has ever been seen in the book-auctions except Lord Stuart de Rothesay's, which was sold in 1855 and fetched £47. The present example is a very fine one, and so large that Salvá suspected it to be a real Large Paper. It consists of 183 leaves (a blank leaf having been cut away either at the beginning or end of sheet +, or the beginning of sheet A). The signatures are 10 leaves, A 7 leaves, B-X eight leaves each, Y six leaves.

105 VALERA (Diego de) LA CRONICA DE ESPAÑA, abreuiada por mandado dla catholica 7 muy poderosa Señora doña Isabel Reyna de Castilla z cetera. Por mossen Diego de Valera. Colophon: Seuilla en casa de Juan varela de Salamanca. Año.. de mill quinientos ʊ veynte z

siete . .

Sevilla, 1527

Small folio, gothic letter, with some rude woodcuts; vellum binding 106 VALERIAN DE UNGRIA. Title printed in red and black within a woodcut border: Cronica del muy alto principe y esforçado Cauallero Valerian de Ungria. 1540. Fol. 2: Libro primero Nueuamente traduzido de su original Latin por Dionys Clemēte Notario Valeciano. . Colophon: . . fue impresso el presente libro en la metropolitana ciudad de Valencia. Por Francisco diaz Romano.. M.D.XL.

1 16 0

2 parts in 2 vols. sm. folio, gothic letter; without the first leaf of the table, and probably also wanting the leaves 7 and 8; fine copy in crimson morocco extra, lined with gilt red morocco; gilt edges, the Seillière arms on the sides; a splendid book Valencia, 1540 25 0 0

This copy fetched £29. 10s at the Seillière sale in London in 1877. Only one other copy (Sobolewski's) is known, and in it the title was wanting, besides two leaves of the table.

The name of Dionys Clemente is unrecorded not only by Ticknor and Antonio, but also by Ximeno in his Dictionary of Valencian writers. From this, the extraordinary rarity of the book may be easily inferred.

407 VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Title: VALERIO MAXIMO DE LAS HYSTORIAS ROMANAS CARTHAGINESES z d otras muchas naciones z reynos por orde de vicios z virtudes adicionado z nueuamente corregido. En romace. Folio ii: Comiençan las rubricas del libro . . q fue trasladado del latin en lengua francesa. . . E despues dl lēguage frances lo traslado en el romace castellano mossen Ugo de vrries.. la ql traslacion fizo en la cibdad de Brujas del condado de flandres: en el año de mil . cccc . lxvij. siendo embaxador de su magestad en Inglaterra: z Borgoña Colophon:.. Fue ympremido eu.. Seuilla por Juan varella de Salamanca . . mil z. d. z. xiiij. años.

Small folio, gothic letter; slightly wormed towards the end, but the copy nevertheless fine and large, from the Salvá library Sevilla, 1514

VERY BARE. The glimpse of the book's history as told in the intitulation on fol. ii is curious, since it reminds us of a parallel instance in English literary history. Urries was in Bruges at the same time as Caxton; and while one was translating the Troy Book from French into English, the other was rendering Valerius Maximus from French into Spanish.

2 10 0

1408 VALLES (Pedro) HISTORIA DEL FORTIS | SIMO, Y PRUDENTISSIMO CAPITAN
DON HERNANDO DE AUALOS MARQUES DE PESCARA: con los hechos
memorables de otros siete ex | celētissimos capitanes. . que fueron en |
su tiempo, es a saber, el Prospero Coluna, el duque de Borbon, Don
Carlos Lanoy, Don Hugo de Moncada, Philiberto principe de
Orange, Antonio de Leyua, el Mar | ques del Guasto. Recopilado por
el Maestro Valles |... Con gracia y privilegio de la Imperial magestad
para todos sus | Reynos, estados, y señorios, por diez años.

Small folio, Roman Letter, First Edition; light brown morocco, gilt
edges
(Zaragoza, 1555)
Consisting of 6 preliminary leaves and 156 leaves of text (numbered 1-159
erroneously). The signatures are A, 6 leaves; a-n in sixes; o, 7 leaves; p-z in
sixes, A eight leaves, B four leaves, and C five leaves. The book is so rare that I am
unable to ascertain whether there was a final leaf of colophon or not.

Brunet describes the edition of 1562, and, in his note upon it, says that the first edition of " Valladolid, 1555" is very rare. In the Spanish Ticknor there is a similar but still briefer allusion; but the date is evidently taken from that of the Privilege, which is signed by "Yo la Princesa” at Valladolid in 1555. The privilege was, however, granted to the Zaragoza printer Por quanto vos Miguel de Çapila librero vezino de Caragoça haveys hecho recopilar de latin en romance al Maestro Valles el libro." Consequently the first edition was printed at Zaragoza, not at Valladolid, as described above. Amongst the preliminary pieces there is "El autor al pio Lector," which was not reprinted in the 1562 edition; also six columns of Errata, and a statement that " Quedan se recopilando las guerras que succedierō en Italia. 1409 VALLES (Pedro) Historia del for tissimo, y prudentissimo Capitan Don Hernando de | Aualos Marques de Pescara, con los hechos memorables de otros siete excellentissimos capitanes del Emperador don Carlos. v. Rey de España, que fueron en su tiempo, es a saber, el Prospero Coluna, el Duque de Borbo, Don Carlos Lanoy, Don Hugo de Moncada, Phili- | berto Principe de Orange, Antonio de Ley ua, y el Marques del Guasto. Recopila da por el Maestro Valles | M.D. LVII. Con gracia y priuilegio de la Imperial Magestad, para todos sus Reynos, estados, y Señorios por diez años. | Vendense en Caragoça en casa de Miguel de çapila, mercader de libros. Colophon: Imprimiose la presente historia en la muy noble ciudad de Çaragoça en casa de Steuan de Nagera, año MDLVII.

Small folio, Roman Letter, Second Edition, differing only in the title from the edition of (1555); calf, binding broken Zaragoza, 1557 1410 VALLES (Pedro) Historia del inuictissimo y muy animoso cauallero y Capitan, don Hernando de Aualos Marques de pescara con ina adicion hecha por Diego de Fuentes. . . Colovhon: . . Fue impressa

1411

1412

en la muy noble y leal ciudad de çaragoça, en casa de Agustin
Millan impressor de libros, a costa de Miguel de Suelues alias çapila
infançon mercader de libros vezino de çaragoça. . mil y quinientos
y sesenta y dos .

:

Small folio, gothic letter; vellum, Richard Ford's copy with his signature and the date 1832 on the title Zaragoza, 1562 another copy, green morocco extra, gilt edges, from the Salvá library 1562 The Errata of the (1555) and 1557 editions are corrected in this, and the addition by Diego Fuentes, to which allusion was made in the words "Quedan se recopilando etc.," was printed here for the first time.

Historia del fortissimo, y prvdentissimo Capitan Don Hernando
de Aualos Marques de Pescara.. Recopilada por el Maestro Valles
con vna adicion hecha por Diego de Fuentes. . En Anvers. En casa de
Philippo Nutio. 1570. 2 vols. in 1, 12mo. calf extra, gilt edges, from
the Salva library, RARE
Anvers, 1570

Eight preliminary leaves; 355 numbered leaves; a blank leaf; Conquista de
Africa, 71 numbered leaves.
1413 VALLES (Ioseph de) Primer Institvto de la sagrada Religion de la
Cartvxa. Fundaciones de los Conventos de toda España, Martires de
Inglaterra.. small 4to. with a curious plate; vellum

666

400

4 40

350

Madrid, 1663 1 16 0

1414 VANDER HAMMEN Y LEON (Lorenzo) Don Ivan de Avstria. Historia. .
small 4to. limp vellum
Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1627
1415

the same, calf extra, gilt edges

1627

A book of standard authority for the life of the hero of Lepanto. 1416 VANEGAS (Alexo) AGONIA DEL TRANSITO DELA MUERTE con los auisos y consuelos que cerca della son prouechosas. Aora nueuamete escripta porel Maestro Alexo Vanegas. Dirigida ala . . doña Ana dela Cerda SS. M.D.xxxvij. Aprilis. xx. die. Por commissió y madato d su illustrissima señoria al . . doctor Blas Ortiz . . Corregido nueuamète por el mismo auctor. M.D.xl. Mai. 15. Colophon: Fue impressa . . en . . Toledo en casa de Juă de Ayala . . Año de mil y quinientos y quarenta años.

1417

1418

Small 4to. gothic letter; hf. calf, from the Salvá library Toledo, 1540
No other copy known. It is probably the first or second edition of a
celebrated treatise written in admirable Castilian. Ticknor and his translators knew
of no edition before that of 1574, which they supposed to be the first, and the
earliest edition known to Gallardo and his continuators was that of 1563.

Agonia del trasito de la muerte. . sm. 4to. gothic letter; fine copy
in light brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Chambolle-Duru
Toledo, Juan de Ayala, 1547
otra edicion, sm. 4to. gothic letter, 2 woodcuts; calf Alcala, 1568

The last 57 leaves of this edition contain the Breve Declaracion de las
sentencias y vocablos, which he announced as having written for separate issue,
on the title of the 1547 edition.

£ 8. d.

0 10 0

0 12 6

+ 40

330

1 10 0

0 7 6

1419 VARO MIRAVAL Y SANTISTEVAN (Felix) Exemplar de Cavalleros Christianos y ociosidad divertida: historia aparente, sm. 4to. calf Madrid, 1733 An absurd romance, with snatches of verse here and there. 1420 VASEUS. Chronici rervm memorabilivm Hispaniae tomvs prior (all printed), Autore Ioanne Vasæo.. small folio, leather wrapper Salmanticæ excudebat Ioannes Iunta. 1552 1421 VEGA CARPIO (Lope de) RIMAS. RIMAS DE LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO. Aora de nvevo añadidas. Con el nvevo Arte de hazer Comedias deste tiempo. Año 1609. En Madrid. Por Alonso Martin. . 18mo. red calf extra, gilt edges, from the Salvú library Madrid, 1609 12 12 0

422

423

424

Excessively rare second edition, slightly altered from the issue of 1605, and
augmented with the Arte de hazer Comedias. These Rimas (in two parts: the
Sonetos and the Rimas varias) were not seen by Brunet, Ticknor, and Gallardo.
The two former mention them on the faith of their reproduction in the Obras
Sueltas.

ANGELICA. La Hermosvra de Angelica, Con otras diuersas Rimas
En Madrid, Por Iuan de la Cuesta. Año. M.DC.V. 2 parts in 1
vol. 12mo. with woodcut portrait; slightly wormed; vellum Madrid, 1605

.

The second part of the volume contains the Dragontea, a poem on Sir Francis
Drake's piratical career. The portrait of Lope was engraved from a design or
painting which was executed when Lope was about twenty years of age.

Arcadia Prosas y versos. . En Anveres, En casa de Martin Nucio
.. Año M.DC.V.. 12mo. vellum
Anvers, 1605
ARCADIA, Prosas, y Versos . . Año, 1615. En Barcelona. En
casa Sebastian de Cormellas
12mo. fine copy in old French olive
morocco extra, gilt edges, bound in Paris about 1630 for Louis Phelypeaux
whose arms and monogram appear in gold on the sides Barcelona, 1615

25

1617.

26

27

23

Arcadia.. En Anvers. En casa de Pedro y Iuan Bellero. Año.
16mo. vellum

First Edition. There was no copy in the Salvá library.
ISIDRO Poema Castellano en que se escrive la vida del

bienauenturado Isidro, Labrador de Madrid
12mo. fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Petit
Barcelona, en casa de Honofre Anglada, 1608
Madrid, 1632 1 0 0

otra edicion. 12mo. vellum

500

1431 VEGA (Lope de) IERUSALEN CONQVISTADA, epopeya tragica . . small 4to. with woodcut portraits of Lope and of Alfonso VIII; wanting two of the preliminary leaves (there are 14 and ought to be 16); limp vellum Madrid, Juan de la Cuesta, 1609 An epic poem on Richard Coeur de Lion.

1432

1433

£ s. d.

140

Madrid al

070

IVSTA POETICA, y Alabanzas Ivstas que hizo
bienauenturado San Isidro. . recopiladas por Lope de Vega Carpio, sm.
4to. vellum
Madrid, 1620
Poems by Lope and 51 other writers of his time.
MARIA ESTUARDA. Corona Tragica. Vida y Mverte de la serenis-
sima Reyna de Escocia Maria Estvarda. . sm. 4to. hf. bd. with the rare
Portrait of Mary Stuart engraved by I. de Courbes

1434

1435

POESIAS Selectas, 16mo. hf. russia
RIMAS hvmanas y divinas del Licenciado Tome de Bvrgvillos

Madrid, 1627

2.10 0

PASTORES DE BELEN, prosas y versos divinos. 12mo. vellum

Brusselas, 1614

Madrid, 1822

4 40 026

1436

sm. 4to. fine copy in vellum

1437 1438

la misma obra, small 4to. limp vellum
Trivnfo de la Fee, en los reynos del Iapon, por los años de 1614

y 1615. 16mo. limp vellum
COMEDIAS:

1439 SEIS COMEDIAS DE LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO, y de otros avtores cvios nombres dellas son estos. 1, De la destruicion de Constantinopla . 2, Dela fundacion de la Alhambra. . 3, De los amigos enojados. 4, De la libertad de Castilla. 5, De las hazañas del Cid. 6, Del perseguido Con licencia. . En Madrid, Impresso por Pedro Madrigal. Año M.D.CIII ..

Madrid, 1603

Smallest 4to. limp vellum
THE FIRST PRINTED COLLECTION of any of Lope de Vega's Comedies. It is un-
mentioned by Salvá, Brunet, and Gallardo; and it came to Ticknor's knowledge only
in time to be referred to in his last English edition. (It was a single copy found in
Germany which he described.) The names of the writers besides Lope are not given
in the book; but No. 6 is the Carlos el Perseguido of Lope (with numerous passages
in the text which were altered in the edition of 1604)-No. 4, "Comedia de la libertad
de Castilla por el Conde Fernan Goncales, en lengua antiga," is not the play of the
same name by Lope, but totally distinct. No. 5, "Hazañas del Cid y su Muerte,
con la tomada de Valencia," is not the second Cid comedy of Guillen de Castro. As
to the Amigos Enojados, and the No. 1 and No. 2, their titles are not to be found
in Salvá's list. According to Ticknor, at least three of the Comedies are by Lope.
The book consists of title and leaves numbered 1-272. On the title is an auto-
graph, "Jes de Jamet a Seville ce 24 d'Avril, 1604."

1440 LAS COMEDIAS del famosa poeta Lope de Vega Carpio. Recopiladas
por Bernardo Grassa. Agora nvevamete impressas y emendadas .
Año 1605. Con Licencia. En Valladolid por Iuan de Bostillo
Vendense en casa de Alonso Perez, y Antonio Cuello. Small 4to. fine
copy in vellum
Valladolid, 1605

VERY RARE.
Salvá mentions it as a book which he had not seen.
COLLATION: Title and preliminaries, 4 leaves; Comedias, 332 leaves numbered
(the last marked 331 by mistake).

1441 COMEDIAS FAMOSAS.. Recopiladas por Bernardo Grassa.. Van añadidos
en esta impression muchos Extremeses. Año de M.DC.V. Con
Licencia. Impressa en Valencia, en casa de Gaspar Leger. . Acosta
de Francisco Miguel. . Small 4to. calf
Valencia, 1605

VERY RARE. Salvá describes as having been seen, but not possessed, by him.
The Entremeses which were added here are five in number and occupy 16 leaves.
The book is divided thus: Title and preliminaries, 3 leaves; Entremeses, 16 leaves;
Comedias, two parts, paged 1-364 and 1-258; Loas, 8 leaves. The twelve comedies
are arranged in a different order from that of the Valladolid edition.

1442 LAS COMEDIAS del famoso Poeta Lope de Vega Carpio. Recopilades
por Bernardo Grassa. . En Amberes, en casa de Martin Nvcio.. Año
M.DCVII. 12mo. russia gilt
Amberes, 1607

RARE. This edition was the first in the Salvá collection.

10 0 0

50

50

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