Glorias de Maria Santissima en Sermones Duplicados para Todas Sus Festividades
Huesca: Juan Nogues, 1645. [4],311,[15] leaves. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, ties lacking, manuscript spine title. Later manuscript ownership inscription and drawing on front flyleaf; outer portion of title page torn away and repaired, not affecting text.. Text block trimmed closely at bottom edge, lower corner dampstained, tanned. Half of leaf 269 torn away, several leaves with text blacked out as though by censorship; small portion of final leaf with loss and repair, slightly affecting text. About good. Item #4203
Second edition after the first of the previous year. A substantial compilation of this Augustinian's sermons on the Virgin Mary. Other editions followed in 1651 and 1658; sermons here are on topics such as the Assumption, the Visitation, the Purification, Our Lady of the Snow, and Mary and the Rosary. The title page has an engraving of the Virgin Mary, showing some wear after use in the first edition of the text. OCLC locates a single copy of the 1644 edition, and no copies of the present edition, though we suspect the record from the Philippines that identifies the date as 1643 may in fact be this 1645 edition. With the paper browned as was common in many Spanish books of this period.
Palau 292436.
Price: $750.00