PUENTE Francisco de la.

Tratado breve de la antiguedad del linaie de Vera, y memoria de personas señaladas de, que se hallan en historias, y papeles autenticos (Parrafos, que se an de añadir en este librro [etc.]). Lima: G. de Contreras,

PRINTED IN LIMA

4to (200 x 140mm.) ff. [6],180 (corrected to 182); 12, marginal notes printed in italic, armorial woodcut on p. [iii], contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, minor marginal dampstains to a few leaves, number 37 written in ink on upper cover, 1635.

£3,500.00

A handsome, crisp copy of this family history of the Veras, a noble Aragonese family, tracing them back to Numa Pompilius.There are some ms. annotations on ff. 13verso and 15verso, and a few elsewhere, transcribed from the list of addenda at the end. Ff 173-180 which have only partially have been numbered in print, have been numbered in ms. It is possible that these ms. additions (all written in the same hand) may have been made in the atelier of the printer.

Medina (Lima) 177 (copies at BL (606.c.43), Bodley, ONB (60.J.21), Portugal, JCB (?), NYPL (*KE 1635; imp. lacking Parrafos) Not at Yale, Harvard. No copy seems to have been sold at auction. Attributed by some bibliographers to Fernando de Vera.

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66082