Fernandez de Heredia, Juan Francisco.

4to (198 x 139mm.), [20], 512, [4]pp., illustration: title within typographic border, full-page woodcut, 55 woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials and headpieces, binding: contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, some leaves shaved at upper margin with loss to headlines, inner margin of first leaf strengthened on verso and of fourth leaf on recto (not affecting text), some small marginal tears with slight loss, pages browned, lacking ties

Palau 88958; Pedro F. Campa, Emblemata Hispanica: an annotated bibliography of Spanish emblem literature (Duke University, 1990), *SD (recording 9 copies internationally)

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Although its title and the charming crude woodcuts recall the first Spanish incunable with stylistically indigenous illustration, Enrique Villena's Los trabajos de Hercules (Zamora, 1483), Fernandez de Heredia's text rather belies expectation, being a collection of adages and allegories firmly in the emblem book tradition.