Salgado, James (fl. 1666-1684).

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

An Impartial and Brief Description of the Plaza, or sumptuous Market-Place of Madrid, and the Bull-Baiting there. Together with the history of the famous and much admired Placidus. London: Francis Clark for the author, 1683

small 4to (184 x 132mm.), [8], 24, 33-46pp., illustration: engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles II, large folding engraved plate of the Plaza in Madrid depicting a bull fight, binding: contemporary mottled sheep gilt, old paper label on spine, portrait shaved at outer edge, upper cover becoming detached, corners slightly rubbed

Provenance

James Paris du Plessis, 1689 (various inscriptions on endpapers). Presumably this is the person of the same name who was sometime servant to Samuel Pepys and author of the illustrated manuscript A short history of human prodigious and monstrous births (Sloane 3253, Add. 5246).

Literature

Wing S377; Palau 287372

Catalogue Note

first edition. rare. ''the first account in english of the art of bull fighting, then in its formative stage... a Spanish translation was published by the Unión de Bibliófilos Taurinos in 1962. The [folding plate] is of historical value, depicting the plaza Mayor in Madrid as it was before its destruction by fire in 1672'' (G. Martin Murphy in ODNB).