RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Department of Printed Books
Acquisitions 1980-19) Hispanic Section
By H. G. Whitehead
ANGLICUS, Alejandro. Tractado muy utile Cervantes' masterpiece by a leading Spanish delas obras de misericordia fidelissimamente writer. Camilo Jose Cela y Trulock, whose traduzido de latin en romance de las obras del mother was English, was born in 1916. He was famoso doctor Alexadro Anglico por el a leader of the *tremendismo' movement in venerable Pero gonzalez dela torre. Toledo: Spain, and his novel, La Faniilia de Pascual Jud de villaquiran ijuan de ayala.^ i53O- fol- Duarte {1942) is considered by many to be the masterpiece of'tremendista' fiction. With a fine title-page surrounded by a Renais- This edition contains 160 etchings and sance style woodcut border. The verso of fol. numerous vignettes by E. Schlotter who was 8 of the preliminaries has an exceptionally fine born in Hildesheim in 1921, and who worked in cut of the Crucifixion. Spain from 1956 to i960. L.so/98. Iconografia dos Deuses Africanos DAU AL SET. Edicio facsimil. Figueres, Art-j, no Candomble da Bahia. Aquarelas Carybe. 1981. Textos. Jorge Amado, Pierre Verger, Waldeloir Regol. Sao Paulo, 1980. A facsimile edition, in four volumes, of a leading Catalan surrealist periodical, published during With reproductions of 128 watercolours by the 1948-56. The group known as 'Dau al Set' Brazilian artist Carybe [Hector Julio Paride consisted of leading Catalan artists like Cuixart, Bernabo], painted between 1940 and 1980. Tapies, Joan Pon^, and others, and their Cup.4o8.rr.7. magazine was the leading voice in the Catalan avant-garde of the post-war years. CERVANTES. El Quijote. Leido por Camilo Jose This facsimile edition has additional signed Ceia. Aguafuertes de Eberhard Schlotter. engravings by Cuixart, Pon^, Tapies, and 4 vols. Alicante: Rembrandt, 1980,81. fol. Tharrats. No. 36 of an edition of 200 copies. An exceptionally fine modern edition of Cup.408.mm.2. nMcricoidm Hw> obuiauerut fibi: 3uftida 1 pa)c obfculate (mu
Fig. I. Anglicus, Tractado (1530). C.i3i.k.ii Fig. 2. Carybe, Iconografia (1980): the Goddess of the River Oxun. Cup4o8.rr.7 Fig. J. Cervantes, El Qutjote (1980-1). L.50/98 Fig. 4. Dau al Set (1981): engraving by Tapies. Cup.4o8.mm.2
DIEGO, Gerardo. Soria. Con 15 aguafuertes de No. 177 of an edition of 220 copies. With Cirilo Martinez Novillo. Alicante, Galeria plates numbered and signed by the artist. Rembrandt Ediciones, 1981. C.i8o.k.7. The poet Gerardo Diego was born in Santander in 1896. He is well known as an anthologist and EL INVESTIGADOR. NOS. 1-75. 19 enero-i6 oct. as editor of two poetry magazines. Carmen and 1833. Montevideo: Imprenta de la Inde- Lola. pendencia, 1833. 28 cm. Soria, a book of sonnets on Spanish themes, was first published, in a limited edition, in Edited by Jose Rivera Indarte, with the Valladolid in 1923. In this edition the poems are collaboration of Santiago Vazquez; published reproduced from the author*s manuscript. twice weekly. Martinez Novillo, born in Madrid in 1921, A contemporary record of the early history a follower of Benjamin Palencia, was awarded of Uruguay (and now exceedingly rare). El a prize for painting at the Bienal Hispano- Investigador was published during the Presi- Americana in Havanna in 1957. dency of General Fructuoso Rivera, elected in Fig. 5. Diego, ^ona (1981). C.io8.k.7 1830 as the first President of the newly formed was one of the first works printed in Coimbra, in Republic of Uruguay. the press which Germao Galharde had set up in Colindale. the Convent of Santa Cruz. The long title is enclosed in a Renaissance style architectural border. On the verso of the JANER, Jaume. Ars metaphisicalis naturalis title-leaf is a fine engraving of the Crucifixion. ordinis arboris nature ... ad intelligendu In this copy the woodcut of St Augustine on the facillime . . . oes vticj libros scietificos: last leaf is a modern facsimile. artesqp artiiiciosas; illuinati doctoris magistri Tbe Infanta Donna Catharina, wbo trans- Raymudi Lull, etc. Valencia: per... Leonardu lated the work, was tbe daugbter of King Hutz [for] Bartholotneu getil mercatorem, Duarte, and was born in 1436. She might bave 1506. 40. become tbe wife of Edward IV of England, but The first, extremely rare, edition of a com- sbe bad retired to the Convent of Santa Clara in mentary on the works of Ramon Llull by the Lisbon, where sbe died in 1463. Catalan Cistercian Jaume Janer. As far as is Tbe work is usually known as the Regra dos known, this is the first book in which LIuU is Monges, from the beading to tbe Prologue. spoken of as 'martyr'. (Cf. E. A. Peers; Ramon Lull, London, 1929, p. 373.) Hutz's Valencia press was short-lived, and LAX, Gaspar. Tractatus paruorum logicaliu produced only three recorded books, printed magistri gasparis lax Aragonesis. In pre- in 1505 and early in 1506. (Norton, p. 450.) clarissima urbe Cesaraugusta sumptibus 1 opera Six copies of this book are known in Spain; Georgii Coci theutonici, 1521. fol. and to date only one is known outside Spain, that in the Bibliotheque Nationale Tbe rare first edition, distinguisbed by a full- in Paris. page woodcut of the Last Judgment on the In a seventeenth-century gold-tooled brown verso of tbe title-leaf, and a smaller cut with tbe calf binding with the arms possibly of the arms of tbe arcbbisbop of Saragossa on tbe Marquis of Caracena. following leaf. C.130.C.28. Gaspar Lax (1487-1560) was a learned exponent of Aristotelian philosophy in both Spain and Italy. He taugbt at tbe Sorbonne LAWRENCE [Giustiniani], Saint. Nom he peqna from 1507 to about 1520, and Luis Vives was a obriga^am de louuor que teem os presentes one of bis pupils in 1512. He returned to 7 futuros aos defunctos scriptores . . . Em Saragossa where be taught for almost forty numero dos qes foy ho glorioso Justiniano years and tbis Tractatus was written for bis auctor da obra presente . . . E nom menos course on logic. In Saragossa, one of bis pupils digna de louuor he a senhora iffante dona was St Francis Borja. His works are all rare and Catherina irmaa del Rey dom Afoso ho tbe British Library, until now, bad none from quTto , . . q esquecida dos cuidados das bis later Spanisb period. outras femeas se affirma auer tirado ho The printer Gcorg Coci, a German wbo veeo a esta obra. em ho insigne moesteyro habitually so described bimself in bis colophons, de seta Cruz: per Germd galharde: Coimhra, worked in Saragossa during tbe years 1499- 1546, and is considered to be one of Spain's This rare Portuguese translation of a work greatest printers. originally compiled by St Lawrence Giustiniani, r
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Fig. g. Vergara, Graecorum characterum . . . explicatio (1526). C.i35.a.2o MARCO, Eduardo. Poemas a Alicia. Ilustrado An extremely rare account of the first Jesuit con II aguafuertes grabados por Luis de mission to the Marianas, covering the period Horna. Madrid, M Montal, 1981. from 16 June 1668 to 15 May 1669. Fr. Diego Luis de Sanvitores landed on the island of Poems based on Alice^s Adventures in Wonder- Guam, with five companions (Luis Medina, land and Through the Loo king-Glass. Luis de Pedro Casanova, Luis de Morales, Tomas Horna is Professor of Engraving at the Escuela Cardenoso, and Lorenzo Bustillo)—possibly de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, and the first westerners to visit the archipelago. By has held many exhibitions of his work, both in May 1669 they had visited, and preached in, no Spain and elsewhere. less than eleven islands, which are listed on the No. 31 of an edition of 200 copies. last page of the work. Sanvitores was martyred in Guam in 1672.
NERUDA, Pablo. Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada. Madrid, Montal, 1980. VERGARA, Francisco. Graecorum characterum This work was first published in 1924 and made apicum et abbreviationum explicatio. Com- the author's name known throughout Latin plutum: Miguel de Eguia, 1526. 4°. America. Since then, of course, Pablo Neruda (1904-73) has become world-famous; he was A very rare Greek type-specimen book consist- awarded the Nobel prize for hterature in 1971. ing of eight leaves in Greek, Roman, and Gothic The present edition is one of 200 copies, and types. Prepared by Francisco Vergara (c.1485- is embellished by twenty-one engravings by 1545), Professor of Greek at the University Spanish and Latin American artists. It is of Alcala, for the use of his students, and printed on special Guarro paper and the bind- as a guide to reading Greek type, particularly ing of plain reversed calf is by Jesus Cortes. the cursive 'Aldine' type—as used in the C.180.C.9. Complutensian Polyglott Bible, printed on this press by Eguia's father-in-law Guillen de SANVITORES, Diego Luis de. Noticia de los Brocar. ^ progressos de nuestra Santa Fe en las Islas C.i35.a.2O. Marianas [Madrid, ^1672]. 4°.
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