Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

46 46 c CERVANTES DE SALAZAR, FRANCISCO, editor and translator. Obras q[ue] Francisco Cervantes de Salazar ha hecho, glosado, y traduzido. General and divisional titles in red and black within border of woodcut decorative panels and type ornaments; printer’s woodcut device at end of each part. [12], 69, [1]; [14], 80; 53, [1] leaves. 3 parts in one volume. 4to, 202x150 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties, with hole in spine and burn marks on rear cover; contents browned with marginal dampstaining, worming in blank lower inner corners in middle of volume, scattered ink blots and fingerprints, portion of blank last preliminary leaf torn out. Unidentified branded ownership mark on top edges. (Alcalá de Henares: Juan de Brocar, 1546) [1,500/2,500] first edition of a collection comprising Apólogo de la Ociosidad y el Trabajo by Luys Mexía; Diálogo de la Dignidad del Hombre by Fernán Pérez de Oliva, completed by Cervantes, with a dedicatory letter to Hernando Cortés; and a Spanish translation of Ad sapientiam introductio by Juan Luis Vives. Cervantes (d. 1575) was a Spanish author and educator who emigrated to Mexico; his writings included dialogues on Mexican life and an unfinished history of New Spain. Alden 546/8; Palau 54065.