[Rarebooks] FS: Velazquez de Velasco's "Ensayo Sobre Los Alphabetos..." Madrid: 1752

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Velazquez de Velasco, Luis Jose, marques de Valdeflores. ENSAYO SOBRE 
LOS ALPHABETOS DE LAS LETRAS DESCONOCIDAS, Que se Encuentran en las Mas 
Antiguas Medallas, y Monumentos de Espana. Escrito, Revisto, y Publicdo 
de Orden de la Misma Academia. Madrid: en la Oficina De Antonio Sanz. 
1752. 4to. (16),164,(6)pp. Plus 20 copper engraved plates. Copper 
engraved title page vignette and copper engraved head & tail pieces. 
Cont. vellum, some soiling. Blind stamped designs on both covers. A 
later red morocco spine label has been partially chipped to reveal the 
underlying original calf label. Engraved bookplate of English historian 
& book collector William Stirling-Maxwell (d. 1878) on front pastedown, 
and his book label "Arts of Design. Keir" on the rear board.	$750.00 
(trade discount allowed)
Palau 457458.

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