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Auction archive: Lot number 87

GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan (1545-1618) Historia de las cosas ...

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,206 - US$1,809
Price realised:
£1,375
ca. US$2,072
Auction archive: Lot number 87

GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan (1545-1618) Historia de las cosas ...

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,206 - US$1,809
Price realised:
£1,375
ca. US$2,072
Beschreibung:

GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan (1545-1618). Historia de las cosas más notables del gran reyno de la China . Medina del Campo: heirs of Benito Boyer, 1595. 8° (142 x 95mm). Title in red and black with woodcut device on verso, woodcut initials. (Marginal repair to lower corner of tile, repair with some loss to \kp\K2, occasional soiling.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1941, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance : purchased from José Porter, 1941.
GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan (1545-1618). Historia de las cosas más notables del gran reyno de la China . Medina del Campo: heirs of Benito Boyer, 1595. 8° (142 x 95mm). Title in red and black with woodcut device on verso, woodcut initials. (Marginal repair to lower corner of tile, repair with some loss to \kp\K2, occasional soiling.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1941, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance : purchased from José Porter, 1941. The eighth edition published in ten years, showing the extraordinary public interest being taken in the 'great kingdom' of China. Like the earlier editions, it includes the celebrated 'Itinerario del nuevo Mundo'. Palau VI, 105501.

Auction archive: Lot number 87
Auction:
Datum:
20 Mar 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 March 2013, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan (1545-1618). Historia de las cosas más notables del gran reyno de la China . Medina del Campo: heirs of Benito Boyer, 1595. 8° (142 x 95mm). Title in red and black with woodcut device on verso, woodcut initials. (Marginal repair to lower corner of tile, repair with some loss to \kp\K2, occasional soiling.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1941, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance : purchased from José Porter, 1941.
GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan (1545-1618). Historia de las cosas más notables del gran reyno de la China . Medina del Campo: heirs of Benito Boyer, 1595. 8° (142 x 95mm). Title in red and black with woodcut device on verso, woodcut initials. (Marginal repair to lower corner of tile, repair with some loss to \kp\K2, occasional soiling.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1941, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance : purchased from José Porter, 1941. The eighth edition published in ten years, showing the extraordinary public interest being taken in the 'great kingdom' of China. Like the earlier editions, it includes the celebrated 'Itinerario del nuevo Mundo'. Palau VI, 105501.

Auction archive: Lot number 87
Auction:
Datum:
20 Mar 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 March 2013, London, South Kensington
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