[Rarebooks] FS: 18th century Spanish Bibliography

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Rodriguez de Castro, Jose. BIBLIOTECA ESPANOLA 
[TWO VOLUMES]. Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la 
Gazeta, 1781-1786. [34], 668, [168]; [10], 748, 
[1] pp., including half-titles and final errata 
leaf in Volume 2. Folio. 18th-century mottled 
sheep decorated in gilt with morocco lettering 
pieces, edges stained red. Palau 273764. Foulche 
Barrau 306. First edition. Tomo 1. La noticia de 
los escritores rabinos españoles desde la epoca 
conocida de su literatura hasta el presente; Tomo 
2. La noticia de los escritores gentiles 
españoles, y la de los christianos hasta fines 
del siglo XIII de la iglesia.

An important work by Rodriguez de Castro 
(1739-1799) which contains much material usually 
not found elsewhere. Volume 1 covers Iberian 
Rabbinic authors writing in Spanish, Hebrew, or 
any other language from the 11th to 17th 
centuries. Volume 2 covers Spanish writers, 
Christian and pagan, writing in Latin or in 
Spanish through the 13th century. "Aunque esta 
obra quedo sin terminar lo publicado es 
interesante por extractos de codicies y por las 
muestras ineditas de obras de Astronomos, 
Cabalistas, Comentadores y Expositores, 
Filosofos, Gramaticos, Historiadores, Juristas, 
Matematicos, Medicos, Poetas, predicadores, 
Retoricos, Talmudistas, Teologos y traductores de 
judios espanoles," (Palau, Manual del librero 
hispano-americano, XVII, p.256). Material for an 
extensive supplement was collected by the author 
but never published. ABPC shows only two copies 
at auction in the last 30 years. Sizes not 
uniform; some dampstaining, mainly to the edges 
of the first and last two dozen leaves in volume 
1 and the top edge in volume 2, minor worming in 
blank margins, 19th-century institutional stamp 
on first text page in each volume; unidentified 
branded ownership mark on top edges, otherwise 
leaves quite bright. [34463] $5000.00

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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