Lot 135
Villena, Enrique de Aragón, Marqués de
Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
Description
Arte cisoria, o tratado del arte del cortar del cuchillo. Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1766. First edition, 4to (191 x 139mm.), title within typographical border, each page within a double-ruled border, woodcut illustrations, initials, head- and tailpieces, contemporary limp vellum, a few leaves lightly spotted, inner hinges split; Ibid Arte cisoria. Madrid/ Barcelona, 1879, 8vo, pp. lxxxvi 315 viii, portrait frontispiece, woodcut title, contemporary quarter calf gilt, rubbed, sunned (2)
Footnote
Note: The first book in Castilian about table etiquette, written in the fifteenth century, but not published until 1766. It was printed from a manuscript in the Escorial with no attempt at modernisation of the text or punctuation. The work is prefaced with a short life of Villena. Included in this lot is a copy of the reprint of 1879.
Vicaire 864; Simon, BG 1578; Oberlé 557; Palau 369452